We Shall All Be Changed

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In We Shall All Be Changed, Whitney K. Pipkin explores how facing death with loved ones transforms us. She writes: “The death of a parent is like losing the backdrop to your life halfway through the play.”

I was particularly interested in Pipkin’s brief theology of death, as well as the exploration of death as a theme in Scripture. In creation, death was not natural. In the fall, death became the result of sin. In redemption, Christ defeated death. And in consummation, death will one day be no more.

Face Death with Courage

Pipkin challenges her readers to pray for the terminally ill while holding in tension God’s eternal goodness and our present pain. We can face death with courage because of Christ. We can embody the gospel when we remember that we will not live forever, yet we place our hope in our future bodily resurrection.

As a nurse, I resonated deeply with one of the concluding chapters on caregiving. Caring for the sick and dying is the way of Christ. We Shall All Be Changed is a beautiful and thought-provoking book about the darkness of death and the light of the Lord’s presence.

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