Shaped by Lament and Hope

Publication Date

4-14-1999

Publication

The Christian Century

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Christians are called to reclaim and sustain practices of caring as well as curing, of being present with the dying at the bedside even when we know that the news we bring is not what the patient wants to hear. We are called to be people of lament and hope rather than complaint and optimism. And, above all, Christian clergy ought to be as gifted in caring for the dying as in providing funerals for the dead.

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