by Olivia Phillips
I recognize that not every individual has the same level of comfort with death and dying, but we are all called into this space at some point during our lives…
by Erik Nielsen
The reality is that MAiD has altered hospice care in Canada. It has introduced another way of thinking about suffering, dependence, dying, and what constitutes a good death. Inevitably, it also affects those of us who provide care.…
by Ken Light
Meaningful interaction with those around us requires us to cultivate practices of discernment leading to moral clarity, self-awareness, and attunement to where God is at work.…
by Chris Beuker
Many of our readers will already be familiar with Susan McCaslin—and with Thomas Merton. When we received this interview between Chris Beuker and Susan, we were delighted to share it with our readers…
by David Maginley
At first glance, euthanizing a beloved pet and assisting a human death can appear morally parallel: both are framed as compassionate responses to suffering…
Confronting Evil with God: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Curious Case of Jesus Knocking at the Door
by Michael Barram
As a kid, in churches and other Christian spaces, I occasionally encountered prints of…
by David Lai
Three months before King laid out his religious treatise justifying civil disobedience in a Birmingham jail cell, he attended the 14–17 January 1963 National Conference on Religion and Race. The conference, gathering some seven hundred religious Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish leaders at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, advertised itself as the first ecumenical conference organized to address race relations.…
by Micah Yongo
For the sensible Christian, reckoning well with modernity means cultivating a willingness to upgrade the resolution at which we examine both it and ourselves.…
by Luke Schulz
We killed the mystical element, believing that we were freeing ourselves from superstitious nonsense. In so doing, we forgot that the human mind exists in a balance. The result has been the current dominance of the masculine element, rationality, while the mystical ‘feminine’ has been relegated to the margins at best.…
by Soo-Inn Tan
Love, purpose, resilience, the answer to the reality of death, and a hunger for transcendence. If we have these five things in place in our lives, we have a good chance of living a meaningful life.…