Recent talks: 1.  Anxiety Audio & Notes 2.  Peter’s Nightmare Audio & Notes 3.  Eco Sunday 2013      Notes 4.  Paul’s so-called ‘Conversion’ Audio & Notes 5.  Easter Resurrection                Notes       For other talks click here     The Reality of Death by Etty Hillesum From An Interrupted Life: the Journal of a Young Jewish Woman, 1941-1943 Etty Hillesum was a young Jewish Dutch woman who (like Ann Frank) wrote a diary that she thought no-one would ever read; who eventually went to the gas chambers like so many.  She faced death and was able to see it as I believe Jesus saw it. She says, “The reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life has, so to speak, been extended by death, by looking death in the eye and accepting it, by accepting destruction as part of life and no longer wasting my energies on fear of death or the refusal to acknowledge its inevitability. It sounds paradoxical: by excluding death from our life, we cannot live a full life, and by admitting death into our life we can enlarge and enrich it.” Being a Jew, she was not a card-carrying Christian, yet she understood the mystery of death and resurrection without using this language. What I am Reading: The Impatience of a Parson by HRL Sheppard Women at the Well by Kathleen Fisher A Theology of Work by Darrell Cosden