Repair as an antidote for loneliness
We are called to serve as death doulas to the institution and midwives to the church, writes Jess Cook.
The Rev. Jess Cook is the organizing pastor for Every Table, a new spiritual community in Richmond, Virginia. Jess’s call is to facilitate spaces where honesty, vulnerability, trust, reconciliation and belonging are a way of being. Jess was the first openly trans/nonbinary person ordained as a minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
We are called to serve as death doulas to the institution and midwives to the church, writes Jess Cook.
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