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Coping Through Creativity

Coping Through Creativity

by social@thebtscenter.org | May 31, 2018 | 21stCenturyBible, 21stCenturyCulture, 21stCenturyReligion, 21stCenturySpirituality, Coping

As ordained clergy, I’ve officiated a lot of funerals. For fourteen years, I shaped burnt ash across congregant’s foreheads on Ash Wednesday and reminded them that we all come from dust. To dust we shall return. Yet these words and rituals rang hollow when my brother...

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