
- 184 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Bury the Dead is a collection of personal encounters with death: stories of Alzheimer's, AIDS, cancer, hospice, suicide, murder, systemic violence, genocide, and war. In this book a teenager tenderly washes her mother's body, a community organizer cries outrage over his blood-soaked comrade, a father builds a coffin for his infant son, martyrs are honored by a former political prisoner, a young scholar's experiences in Palestine shape her reading of the Exodus narrative, and a community of gardeners plant trees at urban-core murder sites. Drawing from sources such as the peace movement, the Catholic Worker, and Occupy, these stories make connections between medicine delivery, labor picket lines, and PICC-lines; between jazz funeral secondlines and the front lines of countless struggles. Part pastoral theology, part movement history, this book powerfully demonstrates that resisting the power of death is at the heart of Christian discipleship, and that in a culture that fears death, we will only find resurrection in facing it.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1: Death and Burial
- Chapter 1: Learning It in My Bones
- Chapter 2: Dying in Community
- Chapter 3: My Near-Death Experience
- Chapter 4: Why I Build Coffins
- Chapter 5: Thoughts on Burying My Mother, Brother, and, of course, John
- Chapter 6: Caretaking the Gift
- Chapter 7: To Die at the Catholic Worker
- Chapter 8: May the Angels Guide You Into Heaven
- Chapter 9: Who Will Roll Away the Stone?
- Part 2: Remembrance and Resistance
- Chapter 10: Day of the Dead and Death Well-Lived
- Chapter 11: Back from the Brink
- Chapter 12: Digging
- Chapter 13: Love Letters to the Dead Not Worth Saving
- Chapter 14: Secondlines
- Chapter 15: Breaking Silence
- Chapter 16: Hornets at the Roundtable
- Chapter 17: Deadly Betrayal . . . and a Return to Childhood Faith
- Chapter 18: Cry ¡Presente! Now and Forever
- Chapter 19: A Peaceful Warrior Lives On in Us
- Recommended Reading