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The Christian Century Magazine
http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=6892
Faith matters
May 05, 2009
Making for home
by Thomas Lynch
When I was a child I spoke as a child, understood as a child, reasoned as a child. I knew my parents loved me best and assumed my several siblings all agreed. I mistook abundant love for especial ... |
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| Grave affairs: HBO's 'Six Feet Under' |
| November 2, 2004
ARTICLE
By THOMAS LYNCH
IKE DAVID FISHER in the award-winning HBO series Six Feet Under, when my father died, I embalmed him. My brother Pat assisted. We dressed him, put him in a box and soon thereafter buried him. Tim did the obits and drove the hearse. Eddie ... |
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| Passed on |
| July 13, 2004
ARTICLE
By THOMAS LYNCH
HE PHOTO OF the new priest among his people is an old one. "'First Solemn High Mass," it reads in white handprint in the top right corner, "of Rev. Thomas P. Lynch " and on the next line "St. John's Church, Jackson, Mich., June ... |
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| Good grief: an undertaker's reflections |
| July 26, 2003
FEATURES
By THOMAS LYNCH
T'S SUNNY AND 70 at Chapel Hill. I'm speaking to Project Compassion, an advocacy group for end-of-life issues, on an unlikely trinity of oxymorons--the good death, good grief and the good funeral. "What," most people reasonably ask, "can ever be good about death or ... |
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| Local heroes - Poem |
| September 11, 2002
POEM
By THOMAS LYNCH
ome days the worst that can happen happens.
The sky falls or evil overwhelms or
the world as we have come to know it turns
towards the eventual apocalypse
long predicted in all the holy books--
the end-times of old grudge and grievances
that ... |
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| The dead and gone - Ritual Of Mourning - September 11 victims |
| November 14, 2001
BRIEF ARTICLE
By THOMAS LYNCH
OT ONLY did they die, they disappeared. There's the terrible fact becoming all too clear. We will not get them back to let them go again, to wake and weep over them, to look upon their ordinary loveliness once more, to focus all ... |
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| Witness and remember - public forum executions, evaluation |
| May 2, 2001
ARTICLE
By THOMAS LYNCH
FTER 30 YEARS of directing funerals, I've come to believe in open caskets. A service to which everybody but the deceased is invited, like a wedding without the bride or a baptism without the baby, denies the essential reality of the occasion, misses ... |
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