A Celebrant Funeral? What’s different about it?
by Robert Moore What is a celebrant funeral? Above all, celebrant funerals are about celebrating (in the best sense of that word) the life that is just past, and that is the main focus. The second focus is those who are feeling the loss of the person who has passed on. A clergyman friend of mine some time ago asked me, “What do you do or say at a non-religious funeral?” It’s a good question, which is complicated by the huge range of beliefs and worldviews held by Australians. Of course, my friend was really asking, “Without religious content, what is there to say?” The bottom line is...
Read MoreHello world!
by Robert Moore Hello world! Well, sort of . . . . You see, I now have a new website, which has all sorts of new features that I am really happy about. The things I mention below couldn’t be done on my old site. (For the technically-minded, the old one was a now obsolete form of html, whereas this one is built in the up-to-date WordPress platform.) The great thing about this is that if I want to add things or make changes, I can actually do it myself, instead of having to get someone else to do it at great expense. I can do all sorts of things with it – put new material up –...
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