Helping Families Embrace the Importance of a Church Funeral
Sarah Dorrance describes the pastoral challenge of helping surviving family members who do not attend church to understand that a Christian funeral is appropriate for…
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Sarah B. Dorrance
Sarah B. Dorrance is lead pastor at Middletown United Methodist Church in Middletown, Maryland. She is an International Coaching Federation Certified Coach and co-author of Reclaiming the Wesleyan Tradition: John Wesley's Sermons for Today, available online at Cokesbury and Amazon. In 2019, she published a book about her spiritual experiences, One Pilgrim of Many on the Camino de Santiago: In Search of Spiritual Renewal available online at Amazon. She received her DMin from Wesley Theological Seminary.
A Different Kind of Church Shopper
Gone is the denominational and congregational loyalty that was the mark of our parents’ generation. In particular, I have been acutely aware of two types…