Death without Hope

Philip Yancey describes a unique funeral custom conducted by African Muslims. Close family and friends circle the casket and quietly gaze at the corpse. ...

Reading Your Obituary

In literature the story is told of a man who opens a newspaper and discovers the date on the newspaper is six months in advance of the time he lives. ...

Death Clock

Want to make the most of your life? Consult a Web site to find out just how much time you have left.

If you enter your birth date and gender at The Death ...

Keep Your Fork

A woman was diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. As she was getting her things in order, she contacted her pastor ...

Dr. Samuel Johnson's Prayer

Almighty God, merciful Father, whose providence is over all thy works, look down with pity upon the diseases of my body, and the perturbations of my mind. ...

Time Is Beastly

How completely satisfying to turn from our limitations to a God who has none. ... For those out of Christ, time is a devouring beast; before the sons ...

Don't Fear the Light

Four members of a family in Haiti cowered at home during the February 1998 solar eclipse and were found dead the next day by what officials said was accidental ...

Fear of Falling

In May 1995, Randy Reid, a 34-year-old construction worker, was welding on top of a nearly completed water tower outside Chicago. According to writer ...

A Second Opinion

To start a discussion on core values, our youth pastor asked the teenagers: "What would you do if your doctor told you that you had only 24 hours ...

On Firm Ground

Before his novels The Firm, Pelican Brief, and The Client catapulted John Grisham to the status of "commercial supernova"--as Newsweek called ...