Becoming Dust: Ash Wednesday in Dying (and Thriving) Congregations

In a culture consumed with prolonging youth and liveliness, even the word “death” is taboo, as we have been taught to defer to euphemisms that might avoid the discomfort of that reality. Yet no matter how much we cling to signs of life, death is just around the corner., which is why it is so incredibly vital to name:

I will die. You will die. We will die.