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.
mortality
Finding peace with neighbors, ourselves, and God
“A lot of people want to talk about the big questions; they just don’t know how to get started.”
I liked this, until I didn’t.
I'm a queer Christian pastor, and I'll be using regular, old, boring ashes like always.
There are two sure things in life: death and sin.
It's hard for me to grasp that mortality is my fate, too.
On Ash Wednesday, as we remember our sins and ask to be forgiven, let's also remember what we love and ask to love it more.
To say "earth to earth" is a good thing, we have to believe it's really going to happen.
Incurable condition
Not every ailment can be fixed—or should be. Atul Gawande thinks we need to talk about this.
The church of my childhood paid no attention to Lent. The season's words sounded too mystical to us, too strange and too Catholic.