Joseph Orso

Joseph Orso

Joseph Orso is the author of On the Threshold of Worlds: Tending My Father Before and After His Last Breath. He lives with his family near the West Fork of the Kickapoo River in Wisconsin, where they tend a garden, chickens and sheep. You can find out more at josephorso.com.

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This All Souls' Day, consider the Christian call to tend our dead

In Joseph Orso's rural Wisconsin community, family and friends are learning the sacred practice of caring for the bodies of loved ones in the days after death.

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