My parents never told me this, but parenting adults is hard.
Grief
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Marvel’s ‘WandaVision’ is a deep exploration of trauma (and how we traumatize others)
Wanda is a woman filled with paradox. Her creations show the immense power of her imagination and are rooted in a desire to set the world right—even if it is in her own image.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Joe Biden knows the grief of losing family—and how our pain can have a purpose.
The story of Joe Biden can be told in many ways. But from my vantage point, it is the story of one soul’s journey from darkness to light, from Good Friday to Easter Sunday.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
When I lost my dad this year, Joe Biden taught me grieving is a lifelong process
I sought a roadmap for how to grieve, best practices for mourning the passing of loved ones. But still I have found no instruction manual on grief, no established set of rules.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
When we lose loved ones, they do not lose us
We are the ones who have been left behind. We suffer a loss; our loved ones do not.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
What Lil Wayne’s latest album tells us about Black death in 2020
Lil Wayne pulls from this rich tradition of Black death celebration while dismissing the social conditions that forged it.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Living with pre-grief amid a pandemic
Pre-grief is not the absence of hope. Somehow, we can mourn what is passing away even while we work to preserve it.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
As Christians, how are we called to deal with loss?
I am still fascinated and humbled at the way people know what to do in the face of loss.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A deadly crash on the Feast of the Assumption
The car flipped over 10 times. Maybe 15. I woke up to steel smashing against cement, over and over, over and over. Glass shattered and flew in my face and hair.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Navigating grief in the age of social media
At a time when trust in traditional authorities like the church and its clergy is strikingly low, young adults and others are employing new ways to support each other when bad news or tragedy arrives.