“Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow”: Death and All of His Friends

fifth in a guest series by Myles Werntz on Psalm 23 and the moral life

Death is All Around

The finitude of the moral life—that we live our obedience in the land of the living—is because, long before we encounter Death in fullness, we live in Death’s long shadow. We live, as William Stringfellow put it, amidst the powers and principalities of Death, all of which operate to draw us into death as quickly as possible. But ident…