Come for the Funeral, Stay for Jesus

Last weekend I attended the funeral for my husband’s cousin. It was held in a church in a small town in Oregon, about an hour and a half from Portland. I don’t, for obvious reasons, spend much time in churches or at Christian services, so it’s interesting to see how things differ from what I’m used to at my synagogue.

Just as there is a wide variety in how different synagogues do things, there is also a wide variety in how churches do things. This experience, for instance, was very different from the last Christian funeral I went to, which I wrote about in, ““>Religious and Reform Facebook page to see additional photos and behind-the-scenes comments, and