Secular funerals are not a blind date with the truth | Letters
I believe that Giles Fraser has misunderstood some secular funerals (At a Christian funeral all are equal before God – Cilla included, Loose cannon, 22 August). I can only comment about those conducted...
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'Joy in the Journey: Finding Abundance in the Shadow of Death', by Steve and...
Steve Hayner, formerly President of Columbia Theological Seminary and InterVarsity, and World Vision Board Member, was diagnosed with a terminal cancer. He and his wife (and daughter) wrote posts in a...
View ArticleOne Day at a Time
One day at a time is all we can do. Sometimes it’s one step forward and two steps back, but we keep
View Article10 of the strangest wills of all time
In the UK we are not very good at drawing up wills. In fact, fewer than half of UK adults have done so , leaving 26 million people with no formal instructions for what should happen to their...
View Article10 of the strangest wills of all time
In the UK we are not very good at drawing up wills. In fact, fewer than half of UK adults have done so , leaving 26 million people with no formal instructions for what should happen to their...
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Top Ten Tuesdays - Death Becomes Her
I stressed out about this list – what would I put on a syllabus if I could choose to teach anything… Yikes. I don’t know why, but I really wanted to come up with something that could actually be used...
View ArticleWalking on a Better Road
~~~ If we look close, We can see them, Waiting and waving, On a better road. Smiling, they see us, L
View ArticleSmelling the Roses
Two weeks ago a man I used to work with died. I believe I have a fairly good sense of him from our work together, but I cannot claim to have been an intimate friend. Instead, we were friendly—well,...
View ArticleMy Mother's Last Three Days
Easily the most read and commented upon post on this blog is one that I wrote after my father’s death, How to Know When Death is Imminent, Signs Someone is Dying. My mother died six weeks ago on July...
View ArticleStepping into the Dark
Losing someone is like stepping into the dark. There is no sense of direction or focus, the feeling
View ArticleDance While The Music Plays
The music begins to play, Two hearts begin to dance, Swaying to a melody of love. The song seems to
View ArticleDeath & Dying
When I was about 7 years old, my father passed away with a brain tumour. For years, I brushed it off my shoulder as I had only met him twice. But I’ve learned that a parent’s absence speaks just as...
View ArticleP.S. Seamus Heaney and a Grave Situation
I thought of walking round and round a space Utterly empty, utterly a source Where the decked chestn
View ArticleP.S. Seamus Heaney and a Grave Situation
I thought of walking round and round a space Utterly empty, utterly a source Where the decked chestn
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We Don't Remember Days, We Remember Moments
We don’t remember days, we remember moments Ed on his motorcycle. Ed working on his truck. Ed having a burger and a beer at the bar. Ed laughing with friends. Ed listening to country music at the...
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"The Dying" --Check out the Irish Literary Review Poetry section for my newly...
Read “The Dying” here. The Irish Literary Review, September 2015
View ArticleOliver Sacks' Final Essays Demystified Dying
Americans’ relationship to death has often struck me as being an extension of our puritan attitudes about sex — both are objects of lurid fascination and prudish avoidance. We sentimentalize mortality...
View ArticleYou Are With Me
Grief is an experience for community, for family and friends to share, for others to show they care.
View ArticleDeath: A Love Story
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