Accompany Them with Singing: The Christian Funeral
by Thomas G. Long
 "To a culture accustomed to 'obsequies-lite,' Dr. Long prescribes a full-bodied liturgical and community theater -- funerals equipped for the heavy lifting of Christianity -- acting out our faith and humanity, bearing our dead to the brink of real and eternal life. Accompany Them with Singing: The Christian Funeral is an indispensable and luminous guide for clergy, families, funeral directors -- all home-going pilgrims -- on how we ought to cope with death by dealing with our dead. I think it will be the text of record on this subject for the next fifty years."
- Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking, winner of the 1998
American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award
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Highlights from Accompany Them with Singing Conference
Indianapolis, IN ~ January 7-8, 2010
"A conversation about this book and how it was written"
A conversation about this book and how it was written between
Thomas Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching at Candler School of Theology, Emory University and
Craig Dykstra, Vice President, Religion, Lilly Endowment Inc.
Comments from pastors
Eustacia Moffett-Marshall, Associate Pastor, C.N. Jenkins Memorial Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, North Carolina
William Hathaway, Senior Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Annapolis, Maryland
Frederick Niedner, Professor of Theology, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, "The Place of Dying in the Whole of a Christian Life"
Don Richter, Associate Director of the Valparaiso Project, "Funerals and the Practice of Forgiveness"
"What will help pastoral leaders and others to shape communities prepared to 'accompany them with singing'?"
Stephen Lewis, National Director Calling Congregations, Fund for Theological Education, Atlanta, Georgia
Amy Plantinga Pauw, Professor of Doctrinal Theology, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky
"What kinds of scholarship are needed to resource education, pastoral work, and
a life of faith?"
Kathleen Cahalan, Associate Professor of Theology, Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota
Dirk Lange,
Associate Professor of Worship, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
James Nieman, Professor of Practical Theology, Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Hartford, Connecticut
Ted Smith, Assistant Professor of Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
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