David Mills is a Senior Editor of The Stream. After teaching writing in a seminary, he has been editor of Touchstone and the executive editor of First Things. He has edited a book on C. S. Lewis called The Pilgrim’s Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness and written two books of popular theology, Knowing the Real Jesus and Discovering Mary. David writes columns for Our Sunday Visitor and The Catholic Herald, and writes the “Last Things” column for The New Oxford Review. He serves on the boards of Ethika Politika and The Chesterton Review. He and his wife have four children. They live outside Pittsburgh.
We tend to misunderstand the culture of death, I think. We think its advocates and practitioners want death, however they explain themselves. The profit-making abortionist or someone like Dr. Kevorkian is our symbol for it. Very few people really like…
