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.
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.
A poem by Jesseca Cornelson.
A former mountain climber defies death, this time, from her wheelchair.
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.
In this interview, award-winning poet and best-selling author Kathleen Norris discusses writing, death, marriage, elder care, the church community, and her new book “Acedia and Me.”