Bury the Dead
eBook - ePub

Bury the Dead

Stories of Death and Dying, Resistance and Discipleship

  1. 184 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Bury the Dead

Stories of Death and Dying, Resistance and Discipleship

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

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Contributors
  4. Introduction
  5. Part 1: Death and Burial
  6. Chapter 1: Learning It in My Bones
  7. Chapter 2: Dying in Community
  8. Chapter 3: My Near-Death Experience
  9. Chapter 4: Why I Build Coffins
  10. Chapter 5: Thoughts on Burying My Mother, Brother, and, of course, John
  11. Chapter 6: Caretaking the Gift
  12. Chapter 7: To Die at the Catholic Worker
  13. Chapter 8: May the Angels Guide You Into Heaven
  14. Chapter 9: Who Will Roll Away the Stone?
  15. Part 2: Remembrance and Resistance
  16. Chapter 10: Day of the Dead and Death Well-Lived
  17. Chapter 11: Back from the Brink
  18. Chapter 12: Digging
  19. Chapter 13: Love Letters to the Dead Not Worth Saving
  20. Chapter 14: Secondlines
  21. Chapter 15: Breaking Silence
  22. Chapter 16: Hornets at the Roundtable
  23. Chapter 17: Deadly Betrayal . . . and a Return to Childhood Faith
  24. Chapter 18: Cry ¡Presente! Now and Forever
  25. Chapter 19: A Peaceful Warrior Lives On in Us
  26. Recommended Reading