Are You Heavy Laden? A Healing Liturgy of Lament

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Notes

See http://chemistry.about.com/od/waterchemistry/f/How-Much-Of-Your-Body-Is-Water.htm.

Biblical quotes are all NRSV.

Sallie McFague, Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1982), 15.

Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (New York, NY: The New Press, 2016).

See http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/2/7/1062372/-40-Years-Later-The-Buffalo-Creek-Disaster-Its-Aftermath.

Sarah H. Matthews, The Social World of Old Women: Management of Self-Identity (London, England: Sage, 1979), 103.

Marvin L. Anderson, “Living in Denial? Lament as a Liberative Act,” in Sacred Earth, Sacred Community: Jubilee, Ecology and Aboriginal People, ed. John Mihevc (Toronto, Canada: The Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative, 2000), 155.

Dean Ornish, M.D., Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease (New York, NY: Random House, 1990), 202 and 215.

Marvin L. Anderson, Alive and Kicking: Revitalizing Rural Ministries (Toronto, Canada: United Church of Canada, 2008), 65; see https://ruralchurchnetwork.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/alive-and-kicking1.pdf.

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Marvin Lee Anderson

Marvin Lee Anderson, PhD, has taught rural ministry in both Canada and the United States, served in interim ministry, consults on congregational renewal and community development, and chairs the board of the Fox Institute for Creation Spirituality in Boulder, Colorado. See www.ruraljustified.com.