Seriously Messy: Making Space for Families to Talk Together About Death and Life
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
When families experience bereavement and loss, it can be hard for the wider church community to know how best to support them. In this book, four experienced authors and practitioners offer intergenerational approaches for engaging with questions of death and life in a safe and supportive setting. The material guides church communities who are dealing with the death of loved ones and other situations of loss in talking together as a church family, in applying the Christian message of the resurrection in challenging situations, and in listening to each other and developing their own insights. The opening chapters offer an easy-to-read overview of issues of death and dying, and why this is such an important topic for churches. Part 2 consists of a series of five short theological reflections, exploring traditional images and the language that Christians have always used when talking about death. The five Messy Church sessions in Part 3 continue these themes, each offering material for a two-hour all-age Messy Church service followed by a meal together.
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- Offer intergenerational approaches for engaging with questions of death and life.
- Guides church communities who are dealing with the death of loved ones and other situations of loss.
- Includes a series of five short theological reflections.
- Why we wrote this book
- PART I: DEATH AND DYING
- 1 Death and life are messy
- 2 We need to talk about death
- 3 We need to talk about death in church
- 4 We need to talk about death with the whole church family
- 5 Taking care when talking with children about death and loss
- 6 We need to take care of ourselves
- PART II: THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
- 7 Remembering
- 8 Saying goodbye and hello
- 9 Sleeping tight
- 10 Being loved
- 11 Finding safe spaces
- PART III: SESSION MATERIAL
- Session 1 Remembering
- Session 2 Saying goodbye and hello
- Session 3 Sleeping tight
- Session 4 Being loved
- Session 5 Finding safe spaces
- Further resources
- Notes
- Title: Seriously Messy: Making Space for Families to Talk Together About Death and Life
- Authors: Joanna Collicutt, Lucy Moore, Martyn Payne, Victoria Slater
- Publisher: Bible Reading Fellowship
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9780857468239, 0857468235
- Resource ID: LLS:SRSLYMSSYMLFDTH
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-04T19:53:01Z