"This beautiful book by a matchless preacher, poet, and author is Forrest Church in his finest hour."

"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."

"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.  Nothing in this book is theoretical or inconsequential. At its center is truth that will live forever."

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. Life itself is a mortal illness, a truth Church brings home with a fierce, unnerving clarity; but how few of us face this tragic fact without fear. Love and 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. Like C.S. Lewis and Thomas Merton, Forrest Church has deepened our sense of what it means to be in the world. I read it with inexpressible gratitude.

“Love and Death is transformative.  I was not prepared for the power of this splendid, soaring book.  It totally captured me.”

"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."

"A magisterial meditation on mortality”