Love & Death

by Church, Forrest

• ISBN13: 9780807072974
• ISBN10: 0807072974
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2009-08-01
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

On February 4, 2008, Forrest Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation, informing them that he had terminal cancer but promising to sum up his thoughts on the topics that had been so pervasive in his worklove and death. The goal of life, Church tells us, "is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for." This moving book is imbued with ideas and exemplars for achieving that goal.

Author Biography

Forrest Church served almost three decades as senior minister and is now Minister of Public Theology of All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church in New York City. He was educated at Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in early church history. He has written or edited twenty-three books, including Life Lines; Lifecraft; Bringing God Home; The American Creed; Freedom from Fear; and Love & Death.

Table of Contents

Introit	p. ix
The Journey
A Life That Did Know Death	p. 3
The Death of a Friend	p. 7
Father and Son	p. 12
My Teachers	p. 21
Lifelines and Lifecraft	p. 32
Trapdoors	p. 42
Attending Our Own Funerals	p. 50
Bringing God Home	p. 57
September II and the Sacrament of Grief	p. 60
Love, Death, and Easter	p. 69
The Destination
The Diagnosis	p. 77
Bedside Manners	p. 85
Unfinished Business	p. 89
Beating the Odds	p. 98
Words to Live By	p. 106
The Death Sentence	p. 114
Where Is God?	p. 118
Life after Death	p. 126
Saying Goodbye	p. 131
Love after Death	p. 136
A Closing Prayer	p. 141
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