Picnicking on a Tombstone

Henri J. Nouwen writes in the March 1994 New Oxford Review: "A few years ago Bob, the husband of a friend of mine, died suddenly of a heart attack. ...

Figure Out How to Die Well

Despite the quest for wellness, risk-assessment analysis, and (environmentalists) nobody has yet created a way to make life last forever. You and I will ...

The Passing Parade

If anything should put the "superstar" in his place, it's the fact that an interpreter's fame is ephemeral. ... The main thing is that the composers will ...

Death Is the Only Certainty

Joseph Bayly, delightful personal friend now in heaven, was flying from Chicago to the city of Los Angeles. He engaged the woman sitting next to him in ...

All End in the Cross

Suffering is the heritage of the bad, of the penitent, and of the Son of God. Each one ends in the cross. The bad thief is crucified, the penitnent thief ...

Of Giants and Infants

We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. ... Ours is a world ...

Meeting Real Power

The line I like about power is Edward Bennet William's as he was dying. Someone was teasing him about all the power and influence he had in Washington. ...

Err on the Side of Life

Alva B. Weir, an oncologist in Germantown, Tennessee, told this story:

"I was awakened from sleep by the telephone. On the other end of the line, ...

Jesus the Explorer

For many centuries the men and women in Europe looked out upon the western sea, what we call the Atlantic Ocean, and they saw the sun coruscating upon ...

Richest Dead Man

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery.