The Final Deadline: What Death Has Taught Me about Life

by Chris Glaser

In contrast to religious traditions that attempt to shield us from death by promising eternal life or by denying or demeaning physical existence, Glaser looks at death directly and with appreciation for what it teaches us about life. Death is an inscrutable and even stern Zen master ready to teach us, a spiritual director eager to inspire us, a soul-friend reminding  us that our lifespan has sacred worth.

Glaser writes movingly of the deaths that have shaped his soul, whether those deaths occurred through assassination, murder, suicide, accident, divorce, illness, or AIDS. A few deaths were especially transforming and personal, and all will open readers' hearts to their own discoveries when facing The Final Deadline .

133 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Chris Glaser is a 1977 graduate of Yale Divinity School. He served as the director of the Lazarus Project, a ministry of reconciliation between the church and the LGBT community, from 1977-1987.

Since then he has published nine best-selling books and contributed to more than a dozen other books. Glaser's writings have appeared in many publications, including Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Advocate, Frontiers, Christianity and Crisis, The Christian Century and a range of church periodicals. Since 1998 he has been the editor of Open Hands, a quarterly magazine for congregations welcoming of LGBT people in seven mainline Protestant denominations in the United States and Canada.

Originally from California, he now lives in Atlanta.

Reviews

[Donald · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not what I was expecting. Learned more about Chris than about death. Some provocative thoughts and occasionally a little too much information.