This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. One honor of being a minister is to be welcomed into the lives of people during deeply personal moments. One such honor is ...

When Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's On Death and Dying burst upon the world in 1968, hospital chaplains and those who trained pastoral counselors were among the first to endorse it. The psychological framing ...

Recorded organ music wafts through the funeral chapel as mourners - a man, woman, young child and infant cradled in its mother's arms - navigate their way past rows of steel-legged, ...

PreachingToday.com: Tell us a story of a memorable occasion related to a funeral sermon. Scott Gibson: Perhaps the most challenging I’ve had of recent days was my own uncle’s funeral. My uncle was not ...

“Where there is love, death always comes at least one day too soon.” I do not know when I started saying these words, but I often find myself rehearsing them at funerals. I am a Black man, and the ...