My Turn: Finding God and Grace Among the Dying
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As a hospital chaplain, I've learned that in the time just before death, decades melt away, boundaries disappear and the divine in all of us is revealed.
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By Joshua Norman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 9--Pat Smith died en route to doing what he loved: building hope for people who have little.
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Out of death may come a rebirth. The alternative is much more likely to happen. And if it does the consequence will be a living hell that will go on and on and on.
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All of us need a little help finding our way sometimes.
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PHOENIX - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book "On Death and Dying" and later as a pioneer for hospice care, has died. She was 78...
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A followup to my recent story    The Happiness Broker.
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A provocative study asks whether religion is a product of evolution. Inside a quest for the roots of faith
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I have spent most of the past three weeks inside a hospital room, watching a person I love fight for his life. It is in this frame of mind - raging helplessly against the ever-mutating cleverness of disease
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A patient in a vegetative state can communicate using her thoughts, according to research.
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By Katharine Dale, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 17--The message was clear. Many 20- and 30-somethings across Charlotte feel disconnected from their churches. Even more aren't tapped into a local faith community, but are searching.
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For the caregivers of Alzheimer's patients, life is an act of stoic devotion that most families embrace as the antithesis of a nursing home.
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Having chronicled every stage of life, author Gail Sheehy now has insights on the final stages--from the view of a caregiver. One thing she's learned: Government doesnât always help.
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Attorneys for the parents of a woman at the center of a right-to-die case argued Thursday she would have been profoundly affected by new Catholic teachings on end-of-life issues.
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Parents regret not discussing death with their children who are terminally ill, a survey shows. Many who could not bring themselves to raise the issue later wished they had, Swedish researchers from the Karolinska Institute found.
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By Jane Mcbride, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Sep. 24--Alice and Bobby Vaughan are hospitable kind of people who've always thought that if misfortune put pilgrims in their path, they'd take them in.   They never expected to be the ones seeking refuge.
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A woman who cradled her dying daughter and later died herself has become the subject of a medical investigation.
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Joan Houk has ministered to the sick and needy, run two Roman Catholic parishes that were without priests and has presided over baptisms and funerals. Her calling now, she says, is to be a priest.