Caleb Wilde is a partner at his family’s business, Wilde Funeral Home, in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania. He writes the popular blog Confessions of a Funeral Director and recently completed postgraduate work at Winchester University, England, in the program, “Death, Religion and Culture.” He has been featured in top media outlets, including The Huntington Post, The Atlantic, and TIME magazine, and on NPR, NBC, and ABC’s 20/20.
“In Confessions of a Funeral Director, Wilde… tells the stories of
memorable funerals that helped him arrive at the `spirituality of
death’ that he now embraces,… what it means to be `death positive’…
and how he was able to start to find fulfillment as a funeral
director.”
*Vice*
“A fascinating look into the funeral industry and a compelling
reflection on what it means to be a living, breathing human.”
*Religion News Service*
“As a look behind the closed doors of the death industry, as well
as a candid exploration of Wilde’s own faith journey, this book is
fascinating and compelling.”
*National Catholic Reporter*
“Caleb Wilde shows us how his faith was transformed and deepened as
he allowed death to `quiet’ his faith rather than trying to manage
death through his religious anxiety. I never thought of a funeral
home as sacred space, but I do now. And I’m glad for it.”
*Peter Enns, author of The Bible Tells Me So and
The Sin of Certainty*
With this stunner of a debut, Caleb Wilde sets himself apart as one
of the most gifted storytellers of a generation. Wise, vulnerable,
and surprisingly relatable, this book is funny in all the right
places and enormously helpful throughout. It will change how you
think about death.
*Rachel Held Evans, author of Searching for
Sunday *
“Wilde not only helps us rethink our fears and misgivings about
death and dying, he empowers us to embrace the end of life fully
alive. Confessions of a Funeral Director will make you laugh, cry,
cringe, and it might just change everything you believe to be true
about death.”
*Matthew Paul Turner, author of Churched and
When God Made You*
“To a culture long estranged from its dead, Caleb Wilde provides
good guidance towards some rapprochement. By getting the dead where
they need to go, a good funeral gets the living where they need to
be. Here is good orderly direction towards those ends.”
*Thomas Lynch, author of The
Undertaking*
“With wit and warmth, Wilde breaks open the mysteries of funeral
directing, allowing a glimpse into that unseen world of chemicals
and coffins. Wilde teaches how to cherish the beauty in mourning
and honor the deaths. His words guide us past the denials, and lead
us to embrace life.”
*Carol Howard Merritt, author of Healing Spiritual
Wounds*
“Caleb Wilde offers a reframing of death that is so badly needed in
the world today— one that takes a narrative of loss, despair, and
hopelessness, and helps us discover the hope we have been so
desperately craving.”
*Benjamin L. Corey, author of
Unafraid*
“Confessions of a Funeral Director is deep. It’s also thoughtful.
And refreshing.”
*Quad City Times*
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