In a time of plague, fundamental questions become immediate and personal. Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor - acclaimed public intellectuals and scholars of religion, one a Christian and the other an atheist, close friends for fifty years - have spent their lives grappling with questions of ultimate concern. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, locked down at home and facing an uncertain future, Miles and Taylor embarked on an extended conversation about living and dying in an imperiled world.