Description

Our running theme for this issue: love, death, and their marriage within our everyday lives. Within these pages you’ll find everything from the little deaths in marriage and parenting, to the actual death of a spouse. We have an essay on grief in the pastor’s life and an essay on Ernest Becker’s classic, The Denial of Death. There are also three phenomenal interviews, one about the transhumanism movement, one about doctors and palliative care, and one on the crucifixion, with Fleming Rutledge. And that’s just the beginning…

So, we invite you in, to stare down your death, and to look upon the One who “fell” for you.

Contents

When You Marry the Wrong Person by DAVID ZAHL

The Confessional

Memento Mori: Architects, Madmen, and Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death by ETHAN RICHARDSON

Inside the Transhumanist Wager: An Interview with MARK O’CONNELL

A Poem by ROBERT CORDING

One Day at a Time Is No Way to Live: Love, Death, and Parenting Teenagers by EMILY SKELDING

A Eulogy for My Mother by LUKE STONE

The End of Ambition: Grief and the Pastor by BILL BORROR

The Crucified One: A Q&A with FLEMING RUTLEDGE

For the Record: Love and Death on the Bookshelf (and the Big Screen)

Caine: A Story by MICHAEL SANSBURY

The Dream Sequence: A Love Note on the Little Deaths in Marriage by CJ GREEN

A Poem by ROBERT CORDING

Gethsemane Hospital: An Interview with RAY BARFIELD

My Darkest Hour by MARY CAIL

Wendell Berry’s Children of Forgiveness by LARRY PARSLEY

A Poem by ROBERT CORDING

Time Is a Fire in Which We Burn by MICHAEL NICHOLSON

Life and Death and Death and Life: A Sermon by NICK LANNON