Tag: dying well
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Memento Mori: Helping the Church Regain the Lost Art of Dying Well. By Robert Pratico Synopsis For nineteen centuries in the church, death was public and sex was private. That flipped in the middle of the 20th century – and death became private while sex emerged public. The church unfortunately…
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FYI that I signed a contract with the publisher who offered to publish my book entitled “Memento Mori, Helping the Church Regain the Lost Art of Dying Well.”
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My manuscript “Memento Mori, Helping the Church Regain the Lost Art of Dying Well” has been accepted for publication by WIPF & STOCK publishers. I think it will be sometime next year before it appears as there is still a significant amount of work with the publisher to occur. “Established…
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I just completed teaching my 8-week annual class on “The Lost Art of Dying Well” for the second time. The powerful feedback convinces me to offer it annually and reinforces the need for my forthcoming book (Memento Mori: Regaining the Lost Ast of Dying Well) which is currently in editing.…
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FYI. I’m working with the editor chapter-by-chapter on my upcoming book Memento Mori; Helping the Church Regain the Lost Art of Dying Well, refining the manuscript. We’re through the first two chapters so far (with 13 more to plow through); it’s akin to doing a root canal. No rest for…
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(From my coming book Memento Mori – Helping the Church Regain the Lost Art of Dying Well) In 2017, Rod Dreher offered his version of “dying to the world” which he names the “Benedict Option” because he “came to see the churches, including my own, as largely ineffective in combating…
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My book “Memento Mori – Helping the Church Regain the Lost Art of Dying Well” is almost finished. Here is an endorsement it received from a woman with terminal cancer. “When my friend Bob Pratico asked me to read his book on Memento Mori, I did so as a 64…
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Years ago, a friend was dying of inoperable cancer. Shortly after his terminal diagnosis, he expressed repentant faith and became a follower of Jesus. I went to visit him in the hospital and he asked if I knew where the Bible talked about the resurrection of believers. I said yes,…
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“I regret that we resuscitated Mr. W. J. Turner. He was a little old man, aged further by the cancer that had invaded his bones and lungs and brain. He had eluded death for so long that his daughters had begun to whisper of his immortality. They believed, or so…
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(This is an extract from my forthcoming book.) Ignatius was the second bishop of Antioch early in the Second Century. Eusebius of Caesarea, whose History of the Church is the primary historical source up to 324, reports that Ignatius’s arrest and transport to Rome for martyrdom in the Roman arena…
