When Babies Giggle at Funerals
And, for a moment, everyone is distracted by this interruption of joy - of life - inserting itself into dark spaces.
Rachel Joy Welcher is an editor-at-large at Fathom Magazine and an Acquistitions Editor for Lexham Press. She earned her MLitt. from The University of St. Andrews. She is the author of two collections of poetry: Two Funerals, Then Easter and Blue Tarp, and the book, Talking Back to Purity Culture: Rediscovering Faithful Christian Sexuality (InterVarsity Press, 2020). You can follow her on Twitter @racheljwelcher.
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