Blog: April 2014
Discussing Death at the Public Library
April 27, 2014
This past Tuesday I went to a book discussion at the West Chester library. The book was Irvin Yalom’s Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death (2007). Yalom writes from a secular vantage point; there’s no God in the picture as he ponders life and death.
I found this jarring, especially two days after celebrating Jesus’ resurrection and his victory over death itself: here was an author looking death in the eye but with no hope of deliverance.
For Yalom, the best we can do with death is face up to it. His thesis is that many ...
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