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.”
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.
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.