Take & read: New books in Old Testament
Climate catastrophe, economic inequality, and the way we treat our dead
death
A life worth living, but for how long?
In their new novels, Dara Horn and Chloe Benjamin play with themes of mortality and free will.
National Poetry Month is over, but there's plenty of good poetry to get us through the next 11 months.
Imagine talking about birth the way we talk about death.
One gift of being a pastor is that death stands right in front of us. We understand that our days are numbered.
Living in the gray
A hospice chaplain writes about facing pain without flinching.
Princeton Theological Seminary's farm grows food. But this isn't the main point.
After One-Hundred-and-Twenty, by Hillel Halkin
Part history and part memoir, this volume gently immerses readers in Jewish traditions surrounding death.
For career day at my daughter's school, I brought pictures of some of the things pastors do. The students were mostly interested in the funerals.
I knew Jannie Swart's witness would have a lasting impact on our seminary. I didn't anticipate how it would challenge me in the classroom.