Friday, April 15, 2016

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


Thursday, April 7, 2016

Be kind



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

Monday, March 28, 2016

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.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Death and modern life

"Each year around 50,000 people die in New York, some alone and unseen. Ronald Rodriguez, who investigates such deaths, says: 'I try to build a life like it’s the last day. You never know when you will die. Before this, I went along like I would live forever.'"Click on the link to read  The Lonely Death of George Bell