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. This
bespeaks the reality that for Christians, death never has the last
word. The spiritual narratives that shape this book witness to the
power of lives given over to love and justice. I recommend it for
anyone whose life has been touched by loss and grief, and who wants
to learn and be changed by them. Clergy, spiritual directors, and
activists will also benefit from these luminous narratives.
--Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Claremont School of Theology In Bury
the Dead, participants in the Catholic Worker, L'Arche, and related
communities share tender stories of what may be the most
marginalized act of all: accompanying those whose bodies are
returning to the earth. The result is at once an album of memories
for the extended family of the Christian left, a passionate rebuke
to a society that denies life by denying death, and an invitation
to all of us to touch the fragile flesh of our companions. --Dan
McKanan, Harvard Divinity School What a difference it makes when
people are prepared for death and surrounded by loved ones who do
not interfere with but walk with the one dying. Those memories
never fade. Putting them out there for others is a way of inviting
us all to prepare the walk with all the hope and joy we can muster
out of lives lived with love and meaning. Thank you, Laurel. --Liz
McAlister, Jonah House Laurel Dykstra is an Anglican priest and
community-based activist and scholar in Vancouver, British
Columbia. She is the author of Set Them Free: The Other Side of
Exodus (2002) and coeditor of Liberating Biblical Study (Cascade
Books, 2011).
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