Sentences with phrase «book about dying»

Home Is Burning is perhaps the funniest book about dying I've ever read.

Our reviewer writes, «Home Is Burning is perhaps the funniest book about dying I've ever read... [Marshall] takes an unflinching look at how real families fall apart — and pull together — in their own ways.»

An American who confessed his book about dying, meeting Jesus and coming back to life was a lie is suing the book's Christian publishers.

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While Gates admits he isn't usually «one for tear - jerkers about death and dying,» he was drawn to Kalanithi's search for meaning through books, writing, his family, medicine, surgery, and science.

McGrady, who worked for Diana and the royal family from 1993 until she died in 1997, shared a few tidbits about the princess in his book, «The Royal Chef at Home,» his second cookbook that is set for release on September 1.

If they're religious they're praying they won't die and the LAST thing on their mind is wasting their last moments on earth discussing something they've never personally seen, only read books about or heard lectures upon.

There are two very good books about what it is like to come very close to death and yet not die.

But other books say other things about where you go when you die.

Lots of books have very imaginative ideas about what happens to people after they die.

Those nut cases have kids dying from hunger and freezing to death but all they are worried about is an old book.

Who would be interested in a book supporting and trying to gain acceptance for the doctrine based on biblical and historical evidence that Jesus died on March 25, 31 CE, at 15.00 hours, on a TUESDAY and was resurrected by His Father, Yahweh God, at about 18.00 hours, on a FRIDAY, thus fulfilling His own prophecy contained in Mat 12:40, whereas He would be three days and three nights in the tomb?

In my book, Dying to Religion and Empire, I talk about how some Christians view baptism as a magical incantation in which the right words need to be said in order for the magic spell to actually work.

That's one of the things I was pointing out to someone who read a book on necromancy (long island medium) and was totally sold on everything the author wrote and was now at «peace» from reading about the endless cycles of death — i.e. soul coming back as such... dying then coming back again as another.

Jesus died at least 30 years before the first book was written about him.

Nothing was written about him until 30 - 40 years after he died (if he even existed)... so what makes you so sure or are you simply gullible enough to accept that a book written 2000 years ago is accurate?

In fact, it was written during the 6th - century BCE, about 100 - 200 years after the original author of the Book of Isaiah died.

When I write in my book The Atonement of God that God was not angry about sin, and did not need Jesus to die so that we could be forgiven, people get upset that I am presenting a God who looks and acts just like Jesus Christ instead of like a Hitlerian Zeus.

I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love of God in a way that I could receive it more than probably any other writer — was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one of his last books before he died: «All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about what this battle has cost him, even as he experienced the unending and unconditional love of God in the midst of it, how he experienced regret and pain and loss alongside of the love and tenderness of God in this dependency.

This book is going to ruffle some feathers as I not only challenge the practices of baptism and communion (die to your rites), but also raise questions about the legal rights of Christians to the freedom of speech, to bear arms, and to various other rights guaranteed by the «First Amendment» and the «Bill of Rights.»

Unless the alcoholic gets help in all four areas, his chances for recovery are very poor indeed (Dying for a Drink: What You Should Know about Alcoholism [Waco, TX: Word Books, 1985], p. 41).

that does not include atheism i hope all atheists would die and be reincarnated as tree's that are then cut down to print «Quran's and bible's on =D that would be awesome that being said i do nt beleive god (meaning the «one» god that is in many religions) would condem postponing your fast untill after the games ive never put much stock in what so called holly men have to say its all about your perseption of your holy book

«When Neil died about 30 years ago, I was offered a choice of one of his books as part of my inheritance, so I chose the bible.

It's not about «I'm better than you, so you should die» — it's about «I'm different and unique and so are you and I embrace that» — isn't that was Jesus» message really was??? Believe me, I have read myriad books on religion, and not just Christianity.

In We Die Before We Live, his book about St. Rose's Home for terminally ill cancer patients, Daniel Berrigan writes: «I am beginning to sense it; you have to be in good form spiritually to work here,» At Cabrini, as at St. Rose's, not everyone is in good spiritual form, but it helps if you are.

What I think is really important for me about the book is, I wrote it as if I were dying, and I finished the manuscript, and then they told me I had cancer and that it expanded further than they'd hoped and that it was more advanced than we would want, and I didn't know if it was going to be my last Christmas.

How can you assume that the Bible, mainly about how Jesus «died for all of us,» is true when Jesus didn't even write the book himself?

Among his convictions which Marcus Borg explains in his book is the idea that salvation is about way more than just going to heaven when we die.

I plan on getting your book as soon as budget allows (along with Peter R's - I'm dying to learn more about bread!)

He had recently finished a book called Alex: The Life of a Child about his daughter Alexandra, who had struggled all her short life against cystic fibrosis before dying at the age of eight early in 1980.

She gains a great deal of comfort and insight by reading Emily Rapp's book, The Still Point of the Turning World, about parenting her son Ronan, afflicted with Tay - Sachs disease and fated to die in early childhood.

Essayist and author of the book, When Autumn Comes: Creating Compassionate Care for the Dying, Ms. Bennett is passionate about exploring topics related to aging, sickness and death.

I, personally, received too many books about babies dying.

This book talks about how all living things eventually die in very simple, straightforward language.

So now I have been dying to know what everyone thinks about the book.

Some good books include When a Pet Dies by Fred Rogers (Puffin, 1998), When Dinosaurs Die by Laurie Krasny and Marc Brown (Little Brown & Co., 1998), and About Dying by Sara Bonnett Stein (Walker & Co., 1985).

She also said she was moved to write the book, which is about a single mother who returns to her hometown in Wisconsin after her best friend dies of breast cancer, to fill time around the holiday season when her live - in boyfriend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and his three girls are otherwise occupied.

She is also working on a book about school turnaround driven by her personal experiences through her brother, Maurice, who was functionally illiterate as a result of failures in the public school system and died at a young age.

And in your letter from the editor, you talk about having read Mary Roach's book Stiff, which is a long explication on the subject — and we just had Mary on talking about her Mars book — but in our shorter version we go through skeletally, if you will, you know what happens to your body after you die.

This uncertainty about responsibilities is highlighted in the series of books about the 10 May 1996 Mt. Everest disaster, in which five people died alone in a sudden storm on the South Col route.

Bill Gifford is author of Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying), a book about the science of aging.

Before she died, her mother, Camilla, was at last able to put her intelligence to use, writing a book about the family's history and genealogy.

Pollan has a book out, appropriately titled How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.

Her previous books include Vitamania: How Vitamins Revolutionized the Way We Think About Food and 101 Places Not to See Before You Die.

You can learn more about this on page 215 of the How Not To Die book.

You can download a free phone app for the Daily Dozen or learn about it in detail in Part 2 of Dr. Greger's book, How Not To Die..

Ron died in May 2000 and the book material was frozen about a year before.

You can learn more about this in The China Study, Cowspiracy, Nutritionfacts.org, the book «How Not To Die» and in many other places.

Although Dr. Lee died in October 2003, his work lives on in his best - selling books, his audio and video tapes, and on this website, where you'll find a wealth of information about natural hormones, from «Frequently Asked Questions» for beginners, to biochemistry for experts.

I freelance edited / coauthored this book on what dying has to teach us about living well, by Frank Ostaseski.