Read a column from The Nation, the liberal periodical where Hitchens wrote before he broke with that camp, in which Katha Pollitt tempers some of the praise with critical recollections of Hitchens’ drinking, writing and approach to women.

The Call & Response blog at Duke Divinity School’s website has a round-up of reactions to Christopher Hitchens’ death.

University of Alabama psychology professor Martha Crowther researches the role of spirituality across the life cycle. She is particularly interested in spirituality and health in older African-Americans.

Douglas Wilson, who participated in a series of debates with Hitchens in 2007, reflected on the death with an essay posted by Christianity Today.

Alexander P. Auchus is a neurologist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center with research interests in Alzheimer’s in non-Caucasians.

Read Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s remembrance of Christopher Hitchens at The Forward.

Read Washington Post columnist and former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson’s tribute to Christopher Hitchens written more than a year before Hitchens’ death.

Harold E. Burchett wrote Last Light: Staying True through the Darkness of Alzheimer’s, a memoir of his wife’s Alzheimer’s disease. He has been a pastor and seminary professor, and lives in Virginia Beach, Va.

Read a column at the Spiritual Politics blog by Mark Silk about Christopher Hitchens. Silk writes about Hitchens as “America’s favorite atheist” and about the affection so many people of faith had for him.