Check out our new piece — Planning Ahead: One Church’s Journey to Normalizing Conversations about What Matters Most in Life, Death, and Dying. What does this work mean to them spiritually? Pastor Gloria White-Hammond notes, “There is an extended, eternal goal in this work: it helps [congregants] spiritually to connect with God, build stronger relations with family, get rid of fear about death and talk about it. It is their healing balm.”