Soap Woman
In this poem, Karla Huston contemplates a museum exhibit of a woman’s body that has turned to soap.
In this poem, Karla Huston contemplates a museum exhibit of a woman’s body that has turned to soap.
In this creative nonfiction piece, a woman recycles her dead lover’s computer and discovers the difficulty of letting go.
A poem by Liz Dolan explores children’s responses to death.
This essay advocates a biblical emphasis on life promotion and suicide prevention as freedom from a fatalistic and tragic life, especially in contrast to the ancient Greek fascination with death and suicide.
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.
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.”
By helping people die well, the church can confront the new challenges of the posthuman project.
A poem by Christina Cook meditates on death and rebirth during wartime.
In this essay the author explores the fraternal worldview exhibited in the work of Francis of Assisi as a contemporary source for Christian hope in the face of death.