Our Denial of Death and the Religious Impulse, with guest Kelsey Osgood, freelance writer

July 26, 2021 00:50:13
Our Denial of Death and the Religious Impulse, with guest Kelsey Osgood, freelance writer
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Our Denial of Death and the Religious Impulse, with guest Kelsey Osgood, freelance writer

Jul 26 2021 | 00:50:13

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Show Notes

Kelsey Osgood is a freelance writer and the author of How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia. Her work has appeared in such venues as The New Yorker’s Culture Desk Blog, TimeHarper’s, the New York Times, and Salon. Recently, in Plough Quarterly, she published “The Yahrzeit of Ernest Becker,” a personal essay about coming to terms with large existential questions and how religion responds to our biggest concerns of life and death.

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