This episode features a series of interviews from community members in Southern California who deal with death regularly. Rev. Greg Coppock, pastor at Sunrise Christian Fellowship in Fallbrook, CA and former San Diego Sheriff Chaplain; Dr. Lillian Harvey Banchik, retired trauma surgeon; Rev. Cate Luehr, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Chaplain and ELCA pastor; Dr. Nilesh Vora, Oncologist, Hematologist, and Palliative Care Physician at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, share their insights regarding death, as well as provide advice for people dealing with death.

Topics in this episode include:

1) Talking to children about death

2) Professionals coping with death

3) The impact of death on the lives of the living, including caregivers

This episode features a series of interviews from community members in Southern California who deal with death regularly. Rev. Greg Coppock, pastor at Sunrise Christian Fellowship in Fallbrook, CA and former San Diego Sheriff Chaplain; Dr. Lillian Harvey Banchik, retired trauma surgeon; Rev. Cate Luehr, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Chaplain and ELCA pastor; Dr. Nilesh Vora, Oncologist, Hematologist, and Palliative Care Physician at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, share their insights regarding death, as well as provide advice for people dealing with death.

Topics in this episode include:

1) General introductions

2) The impact of faith and death

3) The role of platitudes when dealing with death

4) Medicalized death

Gail Stearns shares her book Liberating Mindfulness: From Billion-Dollar Industry to Engages Spirituality. We discuss how mindfulness can break free from an individualized self-help discipline and lead into ways of bringing awareness and action into social justice issues.

You can find her book through Orbis Books - https://orbisbooks.com/products/liberating-mindfulness-from-billion-dollar-industry-to-engaged-spirituality?_pos=1&_sid=90d6b56e5&_ss=r

Co-hosting today's episode:

Janice McLean-Farrell, the Dirck Romeyn Associate Professor of Metro-Urban Ministry & Assistant Dean of Doctoral Studies at New Brunswick Theological Seminary.

Anderson Jeremiah, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University.

Kirk Sandvig, Religious Studies Lecturer at Chapman University and San Diego State University.

Music for today's episode was brought to by: Aiden, Caleb and Kirk Sandvig