Love & Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow
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ISBN: 0807072974 / Publisher: Beacon Press, August 2009
An intimate and compelling work from a beloved minister facing his own imminent death. "Truly a gift, one that will echo in my own preaching and teaching, and in my own life as well. Like Moses gazing at the Promised Land he would not enter, Forrest Church blesses us with his eloquence, his faith, and, mostly, his love."--Rabbi Harold Kushner.
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On February 4, 2008, Forrest Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation, informing them that he had terminal cancer but promising to sum up his thoughts on the topics that had been so pervasive in his work—love and death. The goal of life, Church tells us, "is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for." This moving book is imbued with ideas and exemplars for achieving that goal.
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