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May 2020

May 17, 2020

The Denial of Death and the Disruption of Culture

"The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else;...

September 2017

September 27, 2017

Would You Use the Flag as a Strainer? (What the Anthem Conflict is Really About)

Let's talk about the flag and the anthem. But let's try to get closer to...

September 16, 2016

How Political Ads Manipulate Your Anxiety About Death

Advertisers know how to tap into our deepest anxieties. For better or worse, they know...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

Gravity CEO Dan Price, Symbolic Immortality, and Death Anxiety

Remember the big story last year about Dan Price, the millennial super-cool CEO of Gravity...

June 2016

June 07, 2016

Martin Luther on the Importance of Inviting Death Into Our Presence

From Martin Luther's "A Sermon on Preparing to Die" (from 1519): Death looms so large...

May 2016

May 25, 2016

Ancient Sex: “A Call to Arms Against Death”

I just picked up Peter Brown's The Body and Society, which is a fascinating study of sex...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

To Explain the Trump Appeal, We May Have to Drill Deep into the Human Psyche

Lot's of folks have analyzed, dissected, and speculated on the appeal of Donald Trump. We...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Does Our Need for Religion Invalidate it?

Why did religion form in early forms of human life? What is the relation between...

July 24, 2015

How Important is Self-Esteem for our Well-Being?

In The Birth and Death of Meaning, Ernest Becker devotes a major portion of his analysis of...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

ISIS and the Psychology of Terror

Last week I published an essay on The Table, the online blog of Biola's Center for Christian...

February 2015

February 05, 2015

Suicide: When the Fear of Life Trumps the Fear of Death

The first comment I received on my first post in this series of reflections on...

February 03, 2015

‘Eccentric Identity’ and the Slavery of Death

This is the third in a series of posts reflecting on Richard Beck's The Slavery...

February 02, 2015

On Rejecting the ‘Quest for Excellence’: Death Anxiety, Richard Beck, and the Super Bowl

This is the second post in a series of reflections on Beck's excellent book, The...

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