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The holy week of our lives: how to help faith leaders have conversations around death and dying in our faith communities

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Stryjak, Kimberly Mae Ruth. The Holy Week of Our Lives: How to Help Faith Leaders Have Conversations Around Death and Dying In Our Faith Communities. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/2151e04b-e806-4a74-a797-e56848183d49.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

S. K. M. Ruth. The holy week of our lives: how to help faith leaders have conversations around death and dying in our faith communities. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/2151e04b-e806-4a74-a797-e56848183d49

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Stryjak, Kimberly Mae Ruth. The Holy Week of Our Lives: How to Help Faith Leaders Have Conversations Around Death and Dying In Our Faith Communities. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/2151e04b-e806-4a74-a797-e56848183d49.

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  • This project seeks to demonstrate the critical need for general conversations on death and dying in our faith communities. Using theologies on death and dying, Christian practices, as well as current books, journals, and first hand experiences, the project presents ways in which conversations on end-of-life are happening in society and in our faith communities. It also presents the deep need for these conversations to continue to take place and how we can support our faith leaders in having these conversations in our faith communities. The project proposes a workshop as a resource to help faith leaders and faith communities have general conversations on death and dying. The workshop is designed based on specific responses to surveys given to faith leaders in the Pennsylvania Southeast and Pennsylvania Northeast conferences of the United Church of Christ; interviews with 10 of these faith leaders and surveys to 5 congregations in this region. In those surveys, faith leaders identified what conversations on death and dying they have within their faith communities and also their desired resources and elements for a workshop for education in end-of-life issues and death and dying. The faith community members identified what conversations they have had in faith communities on death and dying and what information would be beneficial in future resources to support faith leaders in having conversations on end-of-life planning in their faith communities. An additional resource proposed in this project is an annotated bibliography of resources on death that faith leaders can use to increase comfort in having end-of-life conversations in their faith communities.
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  • 12/18/2025

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