A Long Walk to Death

A Long Walk to Death explores the Christian perspective on life and death. It argues that the worldly definition of life, focused on personal control and the accumulation of experiences, ultimately leads to a sense of depletion and vanity. The author contrasts this with the necessity of "dying" in a spiritual sense, giving up one's ways and submitting to God's will, drawing parallels with the death and resurrection of Christ and the parable of the grain of wheat. This spiritual dying, though painful and counter-intuitive to human nature's desire for control, is presented as the only path to true life and fruitfulness from a Christian standpoint.