PRESENTS
SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” —H. W. Longfellow
First Things authors reflect death and mourning, individual and national lamentation, and the entombment that awaits every one of us.
JUNE 2012 ● BY DAVID BENTLEY. HART
DEATH THE STRANGER
Sacrifice accomplishes a reconciliation with death.
APRIL 2012 ● BY RUSSELL E. SALTZMAN
GRAVESIDE PRAISE
A funeral service is for the worship of God.
OCTOBER 2022 ● BY ROGER SCRUTON
THE WORK OF MOURNINGThe Germans, unable to bury the corpses that lie scattered in every recess of their culture, cannot redeem their guilt.
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