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Margaret Kim Peterson wrote an article for Books & Culture last year that discussed the poor theology in recent witchcraft-oriented movies.The full text of Jeremy Taylor's "The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying" is online, as is John Wesley's sermon, "On Visiting the Sick." An extensive discussion of Basil's "Asceticon" is also online, and the text will soon be posted at the Internet Medieval Sourecebook.Christianity Today has reported on the controversial practice of physician-assisted suicide and how euthanasia proponents often ignore the wishes of the dying. They also look at Christian origins of the hospice industry and how the profit motive may be a threat to quality care. Sister publication Books & Culture has focused on caring for elderly parents while Today's Christian Woman looked at coping with the loss of an elderly parent and spotlighted one woman who is living with breast cancer.An excellent article on how Christians should face death can be found at U.S. Catholic. In 1984, Pope John Paul II issued an apostolic letter on the meaning of human suffering. The United Methodist Church has posted the moving account of how a father lost his young son to AIDS.Rest Ministries is a Christian ministry dedicated to serving people who live with chronic illness or pain.

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May 22 2000, Vol. 44, No. 6