Mortality Archive
New England Primer: Teaching the ABCs Grim Reaper Style
On May 6, 2013 In Faith & Disbelief, Featured, Mortality, Opinion
How did you learn the alphabet? Did it involve a picture book which taught you that “D stands for dog” and “B stands for bear,” each punctuated by cute images of animals? That’s how a normal person might do it, but the Puritans preferred scaring their children into literacy.
Book Review: Mortality
On October 8, 2012 In Atheism, Mortality, Nonfiction Reviews, Self-Awareness
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens Twelve, 2012 128 Pages (Kindle) Available Amazon Powell’s Many people I know consume deathbed conversion narratives like they’re crack, but Mortality—the posthumous collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens written during his fight with cancer—is proof that there are atheists in foxholes.