A priest friend of mine told me a story about visiting a crematorium and peering through the peephole that allowed him to see a human body in the process of becoming ash. The body was luminous, he said. The process seemed to generate more of a glow than a conflagration: my friend described it as something akin … Read the rest
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I am already being poured out as a libation, wrote Paul in his letter to Timothy. What an intimate and vulnerable thing to say, even in a letter to a dear friend. The New Testament lesson we just heard was written near the end of Paul’s earthly life, when he had been abandoned by most of his ministry … Read the rest
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Our own Honorary Canon Jim Bethell recently told me a story about visiting a crematorium and peering through the peephole that allowed him to see a human body in the process of becoming ash. His main takeaway was surprise. The body was luminous, he said. The process seemed to generate more of a glow than … Read the rest
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