Tag: death
When Wicked Men Die, How Should Christians Respond?
I remember when I heard that Osama bin Laden had been killed. I was in my dorm room with friends. We heard cheering in the halls. We saw American flags unfurled outside our windows. We...
Christianity and Terror Management Theory: Part 2 – ‘I Am With You’
Last time, we talked about how Christianity responds to terror management theory with the promise of a favorable afterlife with God. But what other promises does Christianity have that removes the sting of death, that...
Christianity and Terror Management Theory: Part 1 – The Afterlife
Terror management theory juxtaposes the human impulse toward survival with our realization of the inevitability of death. How do we deal with these two competing facts? The result in this heightened, ever-present state of cognitive...
Thirty Seconds in a Thousand Years
I first posted this a year ago today. It was a Wednesday, and it was not so cold as now. __________________________________________________________ Eighty years after the fact, you’re lying on a worn mattress with now-thin pillows...
Losing a Friend
A very dear friend passed away about two weeks ago. He was one of the best people I know: a good friend, a loving husband and father, a sibling in Christ. He didn’t grow up...
Thirty Seconds in a Thousand Years
Eighty years after the fact, you’re lying on a worn mattress with now-thin pillows under your sun-freckled baldspot and your hand is propped higher than the rest of you. Why? Because it’s being held by...