Imagine the quality of care for dementia patients that is possible....

On living

Hospice Chaplain, Kerry Egan, has compiled a book of advice from her patients on how to live. “If there is any great difference between the people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it’s this: They know they’re running out of time. They have more motivation to do the things they want to do, and to become the person they want to become. . . . There’s nothing stopping you from acting with the same urgency the dying feel.” If there is one thing death teaches us, it’s how to live.

Click here to read more in the New York Times review of her book, On Living.

Good relationships are the secret to a happy life

Everybody dies, but not everybody lives

Night comes

Dale C. Allison Jr., the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, was interviewed about for the Eerdmans Author Interview Series about his book: Night Comes: Death, Imagination and the Last Things

Be kind

Another reminder to be kind because everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle you know nothing about....

David Brooks compares the "resume virtues" and the "eulogy virtues"

David Brooks' book The Road to Character describes the difference between "resume virtues" and "eulogy virtues" and argues we should focus on cultivating the latter.