T.W. Burger

T.W. Burger is an author at Religion News Service.

All Stories by T.W. Burger

A pastor walks into a bar …

By T.W. Burger — January 31, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service CARLISLE, Pa. _ Perhaps the last person you want to see at the bar is your minister. Or maybe that’s just what you need. Chuck Kish, 44, a senior pastor at the Bethel Assembly of God here, is launching a program at a local pub next month to put chaplains […]

No Flowers, No Eulogies at Amish Funerals

By T.W. Burger — October 5, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service HARRISBURG, Pa. _ The bodies of the dead will be dressed by family members in white, almost the only time people of the Amish faith wear anything other than dark tones. Plain pine coffins will be placed in a room in their family homes, from which all furniture and decorations […]
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