Our understandings were designed to address a wide variety of experiences, but the kind of global grief we are experiencing — and our inability to physically gather together in its midst — is truly unprecedented.
A member of Rabbi Rachel Timoner’s congregation had died at home of COVID-19, and because they were quarantined, his immediate family members — his wife and their two adult sons — were not able to travel to the cemetery.
Dial–a–Priest is available to health care professionals and families in hospitals and nursing homes around the country through a single number that connects callers to an Episcopal clergyperson for prayer, especially before intubations or surgeries, or last rites when needed – no matter a patient’s faith tradition or absence of faith tradition.
Since the coronavirus took hold of New York in March, burial rituals in the city have become more complicated. Funeral homes everywhere are backed up and overwhelmed.
Candler School of Theology will offer three webinars over as many weeks featuring dialogues among faculty and alumni exploring what it means to live their faith and practice ministry during the coronavirus pandemic.
Wendland-Cook is a religion and justice program at Vanderbilt University that believes addressing the relationship between religion and matters of economic and ecological justice is foundational to the flourishing of all people and the planet.