We usually say “Life and death.” It is so ingrained I even titled my sermon, “Life and death” and then go on to say I got it wrong. I would have been much better off using the title of this post. I think life before death makes sense when we are looking linearly at life…
Fair warning, this post has no sermons but is rather some reflections on what it means to be human in the midst of all life provides. The context is the condition of my father-in-law, Jim Frost. To borrow from a post my brother-in-law, Steve Frost, made: Dad was admitted to Vancouver General Hospital on June…
Photo credit: Rueben J. Murray We don’t like talking about death. We don’t have to like talking about it. Unfortunately, there are some times where we simply cannot avoid it. This Sunday the Lectionary has us in the first part of John 11, the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. The other Lectionary…