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I read Love and Death as soon as it came out. The greatest gift I could give every one of you is to just tell you to go read this book.--President Bill Clinton Truly a gift, one that will echo in my own preaching and teaching, and in my own life as well. Like Moses gazing at the Promised Land he would not enter, Forrest Church blesses us with his eloquence, his faith, and, mostly, his love. --Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People Love & Death is transformative. I was not prepared for the power of this splendid, soaring book. It totally captured me. --Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of Creating a Life In the midst of an extremity for which there is no euphemism-the prospect of his own imminent death-Forrest Church has written a book that defies the usual adjectives. It is poignant, moving, candid, and eloquent; but it is also so much more. Love & Death, a meditation on the end of life, is really a book about life-a book that shows us how to love ourselves and others, how to know God, how to live. I read it with inexpressible gratitude. --James Atlas, author of My Life in the Middle Ages Forrest Church is one of our great prophetic intellectuals and compassionate voices. His poignant and wise words on the two ultimate realities of our journey-love and death-reveal his grand courage and vision. --Cornel West, author of Race Matters Forrest Church, a deeply spiritual but always practical visionary, is a minister to us all with this moving and instructive book on the lessons of life and death. A lovely, important book. --Tom Brokaw This beautiful book by a matchless preacher, poet, and author is Forrest Church in his finest hour. --Senator George McGovern Here is one of the great confessional narratives about dying that provides profound insights into meaningful living. Forrest Church evokes the full gamut of emotions as he probes the meaning of living, dying, and loving.y

[H]e is certain of the love of Christ that endures beyond our own lives, and he criticizes fundamentalisms of both the right and the left. This book rewards the reader with many wise and quotable thoughts. 'The purpose of life is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for, ' he says. His life's mantra has been 'Do what you can, want what you have, and be who you are.'

I read Love and Death as soon as it came out. The greatest gift I could give every one of you is to just tell you to go read this book.--President Bill Clinton <br> Truly a gift, one that will echo in my own preaching and teaching, and in my own life as well. Like Moses gazing at the Promised Land he would not enter, Forrest Church blesses us with his eloquence, his faith, and, mostly, his love. --Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People <br> Love & Death is transformative. I was not prepared for the power of this splendid, soaring book. It totally captured me. --Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of Creating a Life <br> In the midst of an extremity for which there is no euphemism-the prospect of his own imminent death-Forrest Church has written a book that defies the usual adjectives. It is poignant, moving, candid, and eloquent; but it is also so much more. Love & Death, a meditation on the end of life, is really a book about life-a book that shows us how to love ourselves and others, how to know God, how to live. I read it with inexpressible gratitude. --James Atlas, author of My Life in the Middle Ages <br> Forrest Church is one of our great prophetic intellectuals and compassionate voices. His poignant and wise words on the two ultimate realities of our journey-love and death-reveal his grand courage and vision. --Cornel West, author of Race Matters <br> Forrest Church, a deeply spiritual but always practical visionary, is a minister to us all with this moving and instructive book on the lessons of life and death. A lovely, important book. --Tom Brokaw <br> This beautiful book by a matchless preacher, poet, and author is Forrest Church in his finest hour. --Senator George McGovern <br> Here is one of the great confessional narratives about dying that provides profound insights into meaningful living. Forrest Church evokes the full gamut of emotions as he probes the meaning of living, dying, and loving.n

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