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\"Community<\/a>

Community chaplain Kate Braestrup will give the 2016 Zerby Lecture at Bates. (Marti Stone).<\/p><\/div>\n

A New York Times<\/em> bestselling author, law enforcement chaplain and Maine community minister, Kate Braestrup delivers the lecture Sacred Responses to Grief<\/em> at Bates College at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15, in the Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n

The annual Zerby Lecture is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please contact the Bates College Multifaith Chaplaincy at 207-786-8272 or multifaithchaplaincy@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Braestrup is the author of the bestseller Here If You Need Me<\/em> (Little, Brown and Company, 2007), praised by The Washington Post<\/em> as “a superbly crafted memoir of love, loss, grief, hope and the complex subtleties of faith.”<\/p>\n

The daughter of a foreign correspondent, Braestrup spent her childhood around the world, living in Algiers, New York City, Paris, Bangkok, Washington, D.C., and Maryland before moving to mid-coast Maine in 1986 when her husband joined the Maine State Police. Braestrup worked as a writer of both nonfiction and fiction, publishing essays and the novel Onion<\/em> (Viking, 1990).<\/p>\n

In 1996, Braestrup’s husband was killed in a car accident on duty, leaving her a widowed mother to four young children. Her husband had hoped to become a minister, and, inspired to realize that dream, Braestrup entered the Bangor Theological Seminary in 1997 and was ordained in 2004.<\/p>\n

Since 2001, she has served as chaplain to the Maine Warden Service, partnering with search-and-rescue teams to provide guidance and comfort to the bereaved. Her writings often focus on the lessons she has learned from this work.<\/p>\n

Braestrup’s publications include Marriage and Other Acts of Charity<\/em> (Reagan Arthur Books \/ Little, Brown, 2010), Beginner’s Grace: Bringing Prayer to Life<\/em> (Atria Books, 2010) and last year’s Anchor and Flares<\/em> (Little, Brown and Company).<\/p>\n

Sponsored by the Multifaith Chaplaincy, the Rayborn Lindley Zerby Lectureship on Contemporary Religious Thought was established in 1965 to honor Zerby, a former professor of religion and dean of the faculty at the college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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