Life After Death

Somewhere, in a neighborhood that seems perfect, the air is too still, the windows too reflective, and the smiles a little too wide. Step outside, and you might not recognize what waits for you; step outside into the hellscape called suburbia, and you might not make it back into ...  Show more

Somewhere at the edge of a marsh, the night waits like it knows your secrets. Heavy air presses against your chest, and the quiet feels alive. Sometimes, the things that come for you are already within before you even notice. In honor of Black History Month, these stories come fr ...  Show more

This episode contains stories about the loss of pets and family.Have you been present for the moment when someone transitioned from life to death? What did it look or feel like? Today's episode is about the many ways the moment of death appears to us, whether peaceful or horrifyi ...  Show more

Thinking about death can be uncomfortable and weird. But what if we think about death from a different standpoint? Death isn't just about us, it includes the people around us, especially those whom we value most. It is when we understand the concept of death that we begin to real ...  Show more

We think of life and death as clear cut — you're alive or you're not; your heart's beating or it isn't; your brain functions or it doesn't. But when you look a bit deeper, both on a biological level, and in terms of people's experiences, the border where life ends and death begin ...  Show more

Friends, our first reading and our Gospel for this weekend have a special resonance for our time because they both speak clearly about life after death. Our dominant secularist or materialist ideology says that matter in motion is all there is; the world came into being, and e ...