Ebook {Epub PDF} Near the Exit: Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper by Lori Erickson

Near the Exit: Travels with the Not So-Grim Reaper is a wonderful read and a thought-provoking discussion of death and death rituals. As a huge fan of the movie Coco, I really enjoyed visiting the largest annual Day of the Dead celebration in Chicago with Erickson/5(83).  · Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death, from Egypt's Valley of the Kings and Mayan temples, to a Colorado cremation pyre and Day of the Dead celebrations, to Maori settlements and .  · Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death, from Egypt's Valley of the Kings and Mayan temples, to a Colorado cremation pyre and Day of the Dead celebrations, to Maori settlements and tourist-destination graveyards. Erickson reflects on mortality—the ways we avoid it, the ways we cope with it, and the Brand: Westminster John Knox Press.

Lori Erickson, in Near the Exit, Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper, is an entertaining yet challenging look at how different peoples and cultures have done this journey. From tattoos among the Maori, altars for the Dead in Chicago, a funeral home, a funeral pyre in Colorado, to the Sacred Stone Circle in Iowa City, she explores the sense of. Book Review: 'Near the Exit: Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper' by Lori Erickson. Posted on by William Blair. more. Near the Exit: Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper. Lori Erickson — Westminster John Knox Press Reading: Lori Erickson, Near the Exit. Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper. By Lori Erickson; spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head on, with the eye of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death, from.

Lori Erickson is one of America's top travel writers specializing in spiritual journeys. She is the author of Near the Exit: Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper (which won a Silver INDIES Award for Religion Book of the Year from Foreword Reviews) and Holy Rover: Journeys in Search of Mystery, Miracles, and God. Near the Exit Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper LORI ERICKSON After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head on, with the eye of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Listen to Near the Exit - Travels with the Not-So-Grim Reaper (Unabridged) on Spotify. Lori Erickson · Album · · songs.