Comments on: Stanley and your thoughts… http://dg.hollums.com/2006/08/28/stanley-and-your-thoughts/ Yeah D.G. is not your normal human. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:38:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: DGH http://dg.hollums.com/2006/08/28/stanley-and-your-thoughts/#comment-858 DGH Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:42:00 +0000 http://dg.hollums.com/2006/08/28/stanley-and-your-thoughts/#comment-858 Yeah Steve it is amazing...and I am such a freak about it all that when I am honest that I woudl love to go out of this world fighting with a sword, etc...but even then I would want my death to be short... and in reality they longed for a prolonged death, because they feared God more than they feared death! They asked for thier priest to come before they asked he Dr. to come. It trully is amazing to see how our faith and lives when it comes to death has been shifted over the years. Why does the church not have an ambulence? heh. Yeah Steve it is amazing…and I am such a freak about it all that when I am honest that I woudl love to go out of this world fighting with a sword, etc…but even then I would want my death to be short… and in reality they longed for a prolonged death, because they feared God more than they feared death! They asked for thier priest to come before they asked he Dr. to come. It trully is amazing to see how our faith and lives when it comes to death has been shifted over the years. Why does the church not have an ambulence? heh.

]]> By: steve-o http://dg.hollums.com/2006/08/28/stanley-and-your-thoughts/#comment-857 steve-o Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:26:00 +0000 http://dg.hollums.com/2006/08/28/stanley-and-your-thoughts/#comment-857 I'm going to have to give this a listen, but I'm pretty sure it's one I heard a few years ago and it was totally fascinating. He notes that in the Middle Ages there were prayers in the liturgy for people to pray requesting a longer death. Whereas today people desire a quick death, the people in that day wanted to have ample time to seek forgiveness before the passed.<br/><br/>In a related note, one of my favorite books is his <i>Resident Aliens.</i> Written almost twenty years ago, it's amazing that Hauerwas had his pulse and the changes occurring in American culture/belief. It's a must-read. I’m going to have to give this a listen, but I’m pretty sure it’s one I heard a few years ago and it was totally fascinating. He notes that in the Middle Ages there were prayers in the liturgy for people to pray requesting a longer death. Whereas today people desire a quick death, the people in that day wanted to have ample time to seek forgiveness before the passed.

In a related note, one of my favorite books is his Resident Aliens. Written almost twenty years ago, it’s amazing that Hauerwas had his pulse and the changes occurring in American culture/belief. It’s a must-read.

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