Home Before Dark

When I started out as a boy preaching, Father went along. Then when I got old enough to go by myself, he'd meet me at the little railroad station in ...

The Hope of Dying

George Palmer said before he died, "I'm homesick for heaven." It's the hope of dying that has kept me alive this long.

All Flesh Is as Grass

Consumerism is fed by a desire to forget our mortality.

Living in the Presence of Death

Philip Yancey tells of a painting in the Prado Museum in Spain by Hans Baldung titled "The Stages of Life with Death." On the ground is a newborn ...

The Struggle Against Death

The fundamental thing behind all motivation and all activity is the constant struggle against annihilation and against death. Death is absolutely stupefying ...

Doctors Willing to Kill

Percent of U.S. doctors who treat the seriously ill who would be willing to hasten a patient's death by prescribing medication--11

Percent who would provide ...

The One Modern Taboo

Do you know what the modern taboo is? I read an article recently that said that we now wear on our T-shirts what we used to not tell our analysts. Isn't ...

Comforted by Their Presence

Ray and Judy Williamson's son, David, was killed in a fall at Red River Gorge several weeks ago. Speaking later, Ray said, "I used to wonder ...

Pat Krantz: Bereaved Parent

Pat Krantz: A bereaved parent who comforts others

Pat Krantz lost her 9-week-old baby, Michael, in 1975 during open heart surgery. Well-meaning friends ...

Faith That's Worthwhile

So many Americans watched as Cardinal Bernardin faced his mortality. ... I think we were all edified by his acceptance of death as a friend and not an ...