Books In Review: The solution to the fear of death is to live as dying creatures Theologian Todd Billings grapples with scripture, philosophy, and his own incurable cancer. by LaVonne Neff January 21, 2021
First Person Saying goodbye to my mother during the pandemic She died in her nurse’s arms. by Tom Montgomery Fate January 7, 2021
Critical Essay What we lost when the funeral home replaced the home funeral Death rituals used to happen in our houses. What if we brought them back? by Christiana N. Peterson November 19, 2020
First Person My dad died from COVID-19. My grief is a lonely one. I’m the only person he loved the way he loved me. by Charlotte Donlon November 17, 2020
Books In Review: Interpreting Jesus’ healings as a conflict with purity laws is dead wrong Jesus’ conflict, Matthew Thiessen argues, was with the forces of death. by Greg Carey July 22, 2020
Interview The coronavirus is helping us rehearse for our own deaths “A lot of people want to talk about the big questions; they just don’t know how to get started.” Liuan Huska interviews Lydia Dugdale June 10, 2020
From the Editor/Publisher Death and the grace of “it is finished” At a recent funeral, some churchgoers were surprised by my choice of texts. by Peter W. Marty March 20, 2020
First Person Four years after my mother died, we still haven’t scattered her ashes They’re in a plastic bag in my closet. by Heidi Haverkamp March 13, 2020
First Person We’re all going to die. Why is it so hard to talk about it? Most of us don’t fear death so much as the process leading up to it. by Lori Erickson August 19, 2019
Books In Review: A black pastor writes to the white church about its complicity in oppression Lenny Duncan’s letter is full of hope and fury, love and lament—like Paul’s epistles. by Tim Brown July 31, 2019
Critical Essay Jesus wept. Why? Maybe Jesus’ tears at Bethany come from more than grief. by Frank G. Honeycutt June 12, 2019
Books Take & read: New books in Old Testament Climate catastrophe, economic inequality, and the way we treat our dead selected by Amy Erickson May 8, 2019
Books In Review: 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. by Rachel Marie Stone May 11, 2018
Cover to Cover Poetry and transience National Poetry Month is over, but there's plenty of good poetry to get us through the next 11 months. by Elizabeth Palmer May 1, 2018
From the Editor/Publisher People don't "pass away" Imagine talking about birth the way we talk about death. by Peter W. Marty November 16, 2017