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    Dialogues with Jay: On Life and Afterlife
    Dialogues with Jay: On Life and Afterlife
    Dialogues with Jay: On Life and Afterlife
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    Dialogues with Jay: On Life and Afterlife

    By Donald R. Fletcher

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    Five people, representing three generations, meet to share some of their deepest thoughts. Luc and Don get together after thirty years, with their one-time mentor, Jay, and are later joined by Luc's daughter and her friend Ian.

    Their dialogues, patterned roughly after Plato, start with Jay asking if death is just the end of life, or if there is more. Does science have an answer? Is there a soul or spirit, a reality that transcends the reality of our scientific universe of space and time? Or is an existence beyond this world and life just the indulgence of imaginative conjecture? Through the conversations of these friends, the dialogues provide an affirmation of life, of what it means to be a person, and of an afterlife beyond the boundaries of space and time.

    The book's intent is to stimulate thoughtful reflection and discussion, while not advocating for any particular philosophical or religious position.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateAug 1, 2017
    ISBN9781498244947
    Dialogues with Jay: On Life and Afterlife
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    Donald R. Fletcher

    Donald R. Fletcher grew up in pre-WWII Korea, earned degrees in English and theology at Princeton, and has lived and worked in Chile, Mexico and the Caribbean, as well as the southwest, south and east of the U.S.. He has taught at high school, college and university levels and served extensively in Presbyterian and ecumenical churches. Always eager to learn as well as teach, he has spent a lifetime with the Biblical writings and particularly the first three Gospels.

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