Theology of Death

Death is a theological issue. Indeed, for most people, it is the theological issue.

Many Faces of Grief

Author Edgar Jackson poignantly describes grief:

Grief is a young widow trying to raise her three children, alone. Grief is the man so filled with shocked ...

Hidden Agony

One of the two medical students [present during a series of abortions in a hospital] is a Christian. "Whenever I hear that horrible noise of suction, ...

Life Here and Now

Listening to a student read the Scripture in seminary chapel, Joseph Sittler, now blind, heard something he'd never heard before. "Yea, though ...

Good Night and Good Morning

Winston Churchill chose to believe. Churchill arranged his own funeral. There were stately hymns in St. Paul's Cathedral and an impressive liturgy. ...

Final Celebration

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

Only the Body Dies

Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more ...

Not Buried but Sown

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only ...

A Tidy Facade Can Hide Inner Death

When elderly Adele Gaboury turned up missing four years ago, concerned neighbors in Worcester, Massachusetts, informed the police. A brother told police ...

Inconspicuous Death

In 1992, a Los Angeles County parking control officer came upon a brown El Dorado Cadillac illegally parked next to the curb on street-sweeping day.

The ...