March 16, 2021
With you, for you: In Gilead, a dying pastor writes about the joy that parents experience watching their children grow up - ISTOCK.COM
With you, for you: In Gilead, a dying pastor writes about the joy that parents experience watching their children grow up - ISTOCK.COM×
A mother struggles with fears of mortality and the meaning of existence through a year of death and disease
When I announced to my family that I intended to marry a Hindu, my aunt came up with an unusual objection. “They (the church) won’t allow you to be buried in the cemetery,” she warned. An acquaintance had married outside the religion and years later, when she was terminally ill, her family had to go through many hoops to fulfil her dying wish — that she be buried in her church’s cemetery.