Walking with John Cage
by John WilsonWalking on Thin Air is a splendid book about the simple joys of life like reading, writing, and walking. Continue Reading »
Marlene Dietrich’s War on Nature
by John Byron KuhnerMarlene Dietrich's life is a parable about growing old and being famous. Continue Reading »
On the Character of a Nation
by Francis X. MaierJoe Mahoney, like so many other good men, believed in, and fought for, and sustained by the witness of his life his country’s best ideals. Continue Reading »
Imagining Death
by Sarah O’DellConfronting euthanasia, S. Kay Toombs re-imagines death in the context of Christian covenantal community. Continue Reading »
Worst Cases
by John WilsonPlanning ahead with an eye toward potential catastrophe is a much-needed antidote to both despair and the presentism bedeviling much of our public discourse. Continue Reading »
The Final Enemy
by Carl R. TruemanHuman mortality has always fascinated the greatest creative minds—from Homer declaiming on the slayings of Patroclus and Hector, to Sigmund Freud speculating on death drives. Roger Scruton even locates the significance of artistic endeavor in the fact that we understand our existence to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Easter Vigil
by Mary-Patrice WoehlingYou’re rising somewhere in the April nightAgain, as ever with returning spring.Your tomb will be found empty at first light Again. The dead cells of Your corpse igniteAnd flame to life; the spheres of Heaven ring.You’re rising somewhere in the April night To glory. For a moment all is right;The . . . . Continue Reading »
Mortal Frames
by J. Todd BillingsA Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life by ephraim radner baylor, 304 pages, $49.95 A Time to Keep is an odyssey—a journey through childhood and adolescence, work and sexuality, aging and dying. The reader encounters Sigmund Freud on dying and death, . . . . Continue Reading »
Pack Your Bags
by Matthew HennesseyPreparing for death requires much more than putting financial affairs in order. Continue Reading »
An Imposition of Ashes
by Russell E. SaltzmanJust lately from the forest and after a short time on the savannah, humanity acquired a sense of self. We awakened one morning, so it seems, and if we did not know who we were we at least knew we were not like the animals. We knew we died and the animals did not. We possessed an interior . . . . Continue Reading »
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