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In this poem, Christopher Mulrooney offers an amusing contrast between belief and disbelief.

This essay argues that although it is common in contemporary philosophy to claim that the ineluctability of death entails its internality, thinking of death as ineluctable and external is much more fruitful.

Anne Siems’s quiet and classical paintings are haunting and disturbing.

Cate Whetzel reviews Katie Ford’s “Colosseum,” a book of poems that “record [the] anxiety, trauma, and stunned sense of coping” of “the loss of New Orleans” and “the destruction and devastation of the classical world.”

A poem by Brian G. Phipps that dwells between waking and sleeping, life and death.

By helping people die well, the church can confront the new challenges of the posthuman project.

(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.)   Parallel to a different Top Ten of 2008 films, Christianity Today has posted a 10 Most Redeeming Films of 2008 list. Intrigued by the idea that I could also create two lists this year, I have gone ahead and written one as well: my 10 Most Redeeming Films of […]

What could a worldly professor learn from a saint about dying as a means of living out a calling in Christ?

A poem by Christina Cook meditates on death and rebirth during wartime.