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Be Right Back: On the ethics of using technology to recreate the deceased for the grieving

March 7, 2020 by Randal

My wife recently pointed me to this video clip on YouTube — an excerpt from a full-length Korean documentary — which depicts a mother venturing into virtual reality to interact with the beloved daughter that she had lost to leukemia. This is truly an episode of Black Mirror brought to life. It reminds me, in […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, grief, technology, virtual reality

My Tribute to My Father

June 12, 2019 by Randal

My dad died on April 3, 2019. Ten days later on April 13, we held the memorial service, and I was honored to take part. This is important to me, not simply because I loved my dad and I grieve his passing but because I value others thinking about life and death from the perspective […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: dad, death, eschatology, funeral, grief

Random Thoughts on the Death of My Father

April 8, 2019 by Randal

I recently wrote an article describing my last visit with my father. He passed away on the morning of April 3rd, two days after his 85th birthday. Given the number of people who linger for years in the purgatorial twilight of dementia, his relatively quick demise (he was officially diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in December 2017) […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: death, grief, lament

Watching Borrowed Time

October 19, 2016 by Randal

This brand new Pixar short is a poignant, heart-wrenching exploration of pain, loss, guilt, grief, regret, meaning, and a few other things, all in an austere and dramatic desert landscape and in under seven minutes! It’s available now for a limited time on Vimeo. (But be warned, this is not for younger children.) You’re welcome!  

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: animation, grief, guilt, Pixar

Do you have to love Jesus more than your children?

March 20, 2015 by Randal

A little while ago I was speaking at a convention on the topic of heaven. As often happens, several people came up afterward to ask questions and share comments and stories. Over the next several minutes the conversation slowed and eventually the crowd drifted away leaving one man standing quietly. Once the others had left […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: afterlife, death, God, grief, Jesus

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