- Mon, Mar 29, 2010
- Heaven
Is it wrong for us to grieve the death of a Christian loved one?
Though we mourn, our mourning should be mixed with worship of God and thanksgiving for the life of the loved one who has died.
Resources: grief
- Thu, Feb 04, 2010
- Historical Christians (By and About)
What do you think about C.S. Lewis’s book A Grief Observed and his views on purgatory?
He’s speaking with a perspective severely limited by his grief. His raw emotion sometimes trumps his actual beliefs with the agony of his grief. In other books he expresses more considered beliefs, while in A Grief Observed he expresses his emotions, and when he speaks of beliefs they are beliefs hanging in the air tentatively (though they likely felt permanent at the time). They are less long-term convictions than the expression of his immediate emotional devastation.
- Thu, Dec 17, 2009
- Heaven
“Dad, I know Where I am”
Three weeks before she died, eleven-year-old Ann Kumm told her younger sister exactly what she wanted for her funeral. And she had told others she wasn’t afraid to die. She knew where she was going.
