by Sean Reilly | Jul 16, 2008
Facing up to death and investing in the choices it involves is at the heart of a new multi-million pound government strategy in England to support people as they come to the end of their lives. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning, Health Secretary...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 24, 2008
The celebration of Easter challenges human beings to accept death without delusion, but it also seeks to challenge our acceptance that death is without hope and the end to all meaning, says the Archbishop of Canterbury. In his Easter Sermon delivered at 10.30am at...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 21, 2008
Today’s world “lives with death and resurrection in many ways and in many places”, says the president of the Methodist Conference in Britain. The duty of the church is to be with them in this and to point to the hope of the gospel. “An...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 21, 2008
Pupils at Radyr comprehensive, just along from Bridgend, have been studying Malorie Blackman’s book, Noughts and Crosses. It’s a bit like Romeo and Juliet. Well, sort of. It has a balcony scene and – more controversially – a suicide. After...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 21, 2008
Christian and Hebrew Scriptures say that loss and grief are universal human experiences and psychologists tell us that the process of mourning is often prolonged, painful, and emotionally complex. Ecclesiastes reminds us that grief comes to everyone: “There is a time...
