He had one successful book – his tell-all memoir about leaving the Mormon Church when he came out as gay – but everything in the 15 years since then has fallen flat. He’s not even sure he can be a writer anymore. Then his agent lands him a cushy job: the Hollywood star Roland...
They may have acted more out of anxiety than out of confidence in the face of death, as the scholar Arno Borst has argued, but whatever their motivations, their actions, like the actions of the saints, helped bind together the community of the living and the dead. The Carolingian ...
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.”— A.A. Milne “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”— Fyodor DostoyevskyDep...
Sister Death – The Case For Santa Muerte as Part of Christian Theology The Roman Catholic Church declares that those who are devoted to Santa Muerte cannot be followers of Jesus, as He conquered death on the cross, which factually is not correct. Jesus died on the cross fully experiencing ...
and Susan dropped me at the Oakland airport that evening, we had no idea we had sung together for the last time. A few days later, the pandemic began to enclose us in our respective bubbles, two states apart. Then, a week ago, David had a massive stroke. He died yesterday afternoon....
Rather, the dignity of Dad’s death was evident in the rich prayer life he maintained until his dying breath, and the unwavering hope he possessed in “the free gift of God”: “eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (again, Rom. 6:23). When I found Dad’s Bible in his apartment...
Easter(复活节)isoneofthetwomajorChristian(基督教)festival.Eastercelebrates (庆祝)thedeathandresurrection(重生)ofJesusChrist(耶酥基督)andChristmascelebrateshisbirth.It'snotasbigasafestivalasChristmas.ItstartsusuallyinlateMarchorearlyAprilandtheEasterholidayisFriday,Saturday,SundayandMonday.It'squietalongholiday...
When I got to the part where I quoted Mason’s words, the sergeant audibly gulped and I heard him mutter, “Jesus…” “Look,” I said. “I’m as guilty as anyone when it comes to making off-color remarks at a death scene. We all engage in some form of morbid humor for the ...
137. “No more let life divide what death can join together.”― Percy Bysshe Shelley 138. “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”― John Donne ...
Jesus on the Cross: Bible Text And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus. 27 And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting...