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I was asked to conduct a funeral recently. I had never met the deceased. I know his adult son. I was told by another close relative that, “He wasn’t a religious man.”
The night before the funeral I was up late. My thoughts were all over the place. What should I say? How should I say [...]

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“Cancer.”
It’s one of the most frightening words I can think of. “Mummy, vampire, alien, monster”—these words used to seem scary to me, but they don’t even come close anymore.
Last week, our phone rang. A close family member has cancer. A mom with four little girls. That’s scary. Since that phone call, I’ve been thinking about [...]

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