On Being a Grief Literate Community

Loss and grief touch our lives in myriad ways, yet many of us feel unsure how to respond when they show up in our communities. This sermon reflects on what it means to be a grief-literate community and invites us to grow our capacity to accompany one another through loss with honesty, humility, and love.

Rev. Jill Terwilliger is a grief and change coach at Anbau Coaching and a hospice grief support counselor. She is a TEDx speaker whose work draws on experience in parish ministry, mental health advocacy, hospice chaplaincy, restorative justice, and the arts. Her work is grounded in the understanding that grief arises not only from death, but from all the transitions that reshape our lives. Born and raised Unitarian Universalist, Jill was ordained to the ministry in 2000. She has lived along the I-94 corridor her whole life, from Milwaukee to Madison to Minneapolis, and, for the last 23 years, Kalamazoo.

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