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An excellent article on how Christians should face death can be found at U.S. Catholic.

Virginia Stem Owens has written several articles on death and dying for Christianity Today and our sister publication Books & Culture. They include:

Thanksgiving at Fair Acres | A meal with my mother and other nursing-home residents opened a small crack in their stony detachment, and gave a brief glimpse of the kingdom of heaven. (CT, Nov. 17, 2000)

Death and Texas | How a self-styled "Community Conversation" turned into an anti-conversation carried on by an anti-community. (B&C, Nov/Dec. 2000)

What Shall We Do with Mother? | Poll your friends over fifty. Most of them are already wrestling with this question. (B&C, Jul/Aug 1999)

Grave Matters | I shouldn't have let my parents talk to those funeral salesmen unchaperoned. (B&C, Mar/Apr 1999)

Karla Faye's Final Stop | How my hometown deals with being the execution capital of the world. (CT, July 13, 1998)

Good Friday | Part two of "The Great Reversal" (CT, March 17, 1989)

Books and Culture magazine also ran a poem about Christ overcoming death entitled, "Death Drops."

Other Christianity Today articles dealing with death include:

A Good Death | My husband was more whole on his deathbed than at any other time in his life. (June 2, 2000)

Donne on Death | Donne's "morbid tendencies" were neither unfounded nor without an attendant hope. (March 27, 2000)

Surprised by Death | A young pastor discovers what grace looks like while battling cancer. (May 24, 1999)

Death, Inc. | What the funeral industry doesn't want you to know. (April 26, 1999)

Putting Death in Your Day-Timer | Reading as memento mori. (Oct. 5, 1998)

Deadly Compassion | Some support physician-assisted suicide out of fear of a lonely, pain-filled death. Here are four professionals who are making the dying a part of the church's ministry. (June, 16, 1997)

Hinlicky's other articles for Christianity Today and Books & Culture include:

Free to Be Creatures Again | How predestination descended like a dove on two unsuspecting seminarians, and why they are so grateful. (CT, Oct. 17, 2000)

Urbane Bigotry | A review of Chloe Breyer's The Close: A Young Woman's First Year At A Seminary (B&C, Sep/Oct 2000)

SWF Seeks Marriage Partner | I've got it all. So why do I want a husband? (B&C, Jul/Aug 2000)

An Open-Door Policy | Is meeting alone with a member of the opposite sex dangerous? Is taking steps against it sexist? (CT, Nov. 11-16, 1999)

Hinlicky is also a regular contributor to First Things, where she wrote "Talking to Generation X," "Subversive Virginity," and "Don't Write About Race," and to re:generation quarterly, where she recently wrote about Mary.

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February 5 2001, Vol. 45, No. 2