Quite Undoings: Essays on Religion, Philosophy, Death and Meaning

Quite Undoings: Essays on Religion, Philosophy, Death and Meaning

In this collection, Merlin writes with unsettling honesty about religion and philosophy, relationships, society, death and whatever may or may not come after. Some pages are tender, some are darkly funny, and some are sharp enough to cut. Together, they form the record of a man who refuses to lie to himself about what he sees, even when what he sees is his own fear, prejudice, curiosity, search and exhaustion. Merlin Ambrose has lived several lives in one body. He has walked off jobs, jumped ship from a tugboat, gone AWOL from the Navy, and eventually found himself in the ICU saving lives, in the pulpit preaching sermons, and in the classroom teaching chemistry and physics for twenty-one years. He has been married to the same woman for nearly five decades, raised two children, buried multiple loved ones and dogs, and outlived more versions of himself than he can count. He is an introvert. A man who loves his family fiercely and also fears the world they live in.