Most of us remain woefully unprepared for life’s final transition. One way of addressing this problem is the Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment paradigm.
In her biography of Siegfried Sassoon, Jean Moorcroft Wilson posits that “a study of his life is a study of his age.” In fact Sassoon’s life spanned several ages.
The obsession with time lies at the core of Linklater’s singular new film, ‘Boyhood.’ In a sense it is misleading to call it new, since work on it began in 2001.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the most eloquent religious figures of the twentieth century—a “jeweler of words,” in the estimation of one colleague.
The mowers are at work on the hillside, / cutting brush with string trimmers and chattering saws, / and a haze of dust rises up around/ the crew as they labor...
What some critics see as Rolheiser’s complacent, uncritical embrace of modern secular society is actually borne of his confidence in God’s abiding presence and care.
