There’s a number of similarities between the work of a pastor and the work of a mortician.  We, like pastors, find our schedules based off the needs of others.  We find ourselves continuously surrounded by mysteries and silence.  We are invited into the sacred space of death; and like pastors, we’re expected to be […]

Today is Ash Wednesday.  And whether or not you consider yourself apart of the Christian church, there’s value to be learned from “Ash Wednesday.” Ash Wednesday isn’t suppose to be comfortable.  It’s a day when the Christian church takes repentance public.  A day when something usually reserve for the private sphere gets pushed into the public sphere. […]

I was lucky this Christmas.  I watched my one year old son rip into his Christmas presents unencumbered by work.  In fact, this is the first year in the last five that I haven’t been called in for a holiday death call. Today, though, is New Year’s Day.  My family is home right now watching […]

  Hey, John … I’m at a funeral right now, do you mind if I call you back? No matter how many times we ask people to silence their cell phones at a funeral service, there will always be ONE person who didn’t get the memo! The worst is when somebody not only let’s their phone […]

Back before Twitter, before Facebook, before Gmail, around the same time that Hotmail was cool, there was this place called the “Myspace.”  And on this “Myspace”, it was a common practice for the members of the “Myspace” to answer a litany of random questions and then post one’s answers to said random questions so that […]