Imagining Death
by Sarah O’DellConfronting euthanasia, S. Kay Toombs re-imagines death in the context of Christian covenantal community. Continue Reading »
Confronting euthanasia, S. Kay Toombs re-imagines death in the context of Christian covenantal community. Continue Reading »
Far from reducing suffering, assisted suicide has become the catalyst for spreading it. In many if not most cases, a death by lethal injection transfers temporal suffering to heartbroken loved ones who struggle to process what has taken place. Continue Reading »
I am hers and she is mine and nothing, not dementia nor death itself, can ever erase that. She will always be my mother, and I her son. Continue Reading »
Easter is good news: Our bodies too will be raised immortal, incorruptible—joined together with our souls in paradisal glory. Continue Reading »
When we partake in the old-fashioned ritual of burying the dead in graves, we confess that we too look for the resurrection of glorified bodies at the end of time. Continue Reading »
A culture of life, therefore, means not just preserving physical life, but developing rich spiritual, intellectual, and emotional lives. Continue Reading »
Both natural and artificial things bear a parabolic or symbolic quality to them. Autumn as a season, for example, is evocative of many things: the darkness of decay, to be sure, alongside bold beauty. Continue Reading »
Perhaps the most striking of John Courtney Murray's aphorisms was phrased, if memory serves, like this: “Death is the only thing we really have to look forward to.” Continue Reading »
We are a people marked by death—not death as a power that holds sway over us, but rather the liberating death of Christ on the cross. Continue Reading »
Let us not lose the opportunity to thank our maker for giving us the gift of Alice von Hildebrand, who arduously defended the truth through her formidable faculties of head and heart. Continue Reading »