death
J. Dana Trent is on a mission to discuss death with the post-Millennial generation
By Yonat Shimron — February 3, 2020
RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — Her fascination with death is part of a growing movement whose adherents believe in wresting control of death from the funeral industry and breaking the silence around death through frank discussions.
Pope Francis: This Halloween, take time to reflect on the ‘three deaths’
By Claire Giangravé — November 1, 2019
RNS — 'A culture that forgets death begins to die within,' Pope Francis told a group of young people on Halloween. 'He who forgets death has already begun to die.'
Navigating grief in the social media age
By Paul O'Donnell — August 6, 2019
(RNS) — At a time when trust in church and clergy is strikingly low, young adults are finding new ways to support each other when bad news or tragedy arrives.
A goodbye to a man who taught us how to look at death
By Bob Smietana — July 25, 2019
(RNS) — Rob said that being willing to die was different than accepting death. He did not want to make friends with death. Instead, he called it the 'final evil' — which he, as a Christian, was willing to endure.
How the place comforts us
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 5, 2019
These are the most powerful lessons I have learned in the month after my father's death.
Seven things that death can teach you
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 4, 2019
How shiva has jumped the shark, and other observations after my father's death.
Religious leaders recall George H.W. Bush’s priorities: friendship, faith, family
By Adelle M. Banks — December 3, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Here's a sampling of reaction to the death of the 41st president and longtime Episcopalian.
I want to die like George H.W. Bush
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 3, 2018
Welcome to heaven, President Bush.
Barbara Bush’s old-fashioned religion
By Lauren Markoe — April 18, 2018
(RNS) — Barbara Bush seemed to embody the virtues of womanhood promoted in 20th-century American Protestantism: loyalty, duty and family.
PBS film explores how we go gently – or kicking and screaming – into the night
By Aysha Khan — March 26, 2018
(RNS) - Veteran filmmaker Helen Whitney asks nine men and women grappling with death to tell their stories in this two-hour documentary.
The last male rhino of its kind dies. African religious leaders call it a spiritual loss.
By Lauren Markoe — March 21, 2018
(RNS) — 'We believe God cannot commission the death of species that he had brought to life,' said the Rev. Charles Odira, a Kenyan Roman Catholic priest and conservationist.
What living with a death sentence can teach all of us about life
By Jonathan Merritt — February 6, 2018
(RNS) — 'If someone found cancer to be a gift, wonderful. But there is a certain cruelty to asking suffering people to bear the weight of other people’s theological conundrums,' Christian historian Kate Bowler tells RNS' Jonathan Merritt. (Commentary)
Coroner: Accused state lawmaker’s death is apparent suicide
By Jerome Socolovsky — December 14, 2017
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Dan Johnson, a Republican state lawmaker in Kentucky and the pastor of Heart of Fire church in Louisville, had defiantly denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl in the basement of his home.
A funeral director says many churches (unknowingly) promote a ‘death negative’ narrative
By Jonathan Merritt — November 10, 2017
Caleb Wilde says many churches teach that "death, and our mortality, is at heart both shameful and has little to no redeeming value."
This is no way to treat the dead
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 1, 2017
There's a new way of disposing of human bodies. You don't want to know.....
