The holiday is a rare opportunity in the religious calendar to reflect on death. By ROB MOLL Note: This article originally appeared Oct. 29, 2010, in The Wall Street Journal. For many churches this week, there won’t be any Styrofoam grave stones, skeletons or spooky signs of death and decay. Instead of morbid celebrations of… [Read more…]
November 18, 2010
Note: This interview took place with the United Methodist Reporter. Rob Moll, an award-winning journalist and editor-at-large withChristianity Today, has written extensively on health-care issues and has served as a hospice volunteer. He is convinced that Christians have forgotten their tradition of “dying well.” Mr. Moll talked about his new book The Art of Dying: Living… [Read more…]
November 9, 2010
What factors bring about cultural change? Can they be listed and described and then implemented with effect? I’ve been thinking about this as I read the book Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent after having read Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. Gladwell’s book doesn’t seem to be so much about… [Read more…]
November 19, 2010
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