Biologist Ann Gauger on How Life Is Sculpted by Death

Biologic Institute biologist Ann Gauger has a beautiful and illuminating essay out now, "Greater Love Has No Cell," in the Christianity Today publication The Behemoth. The subject: apoptosis. What's that? Programmed cell death, in which our ENV colleague Dr. Gauger finds not only major biological significance but a profound spiritual metaphor. The only drawback is that the article is behind a paywall, but we can share highlights. She begins:

We naturally think of death as something awful, a...