the reality that many of them will need to be prepared to embrace an alternative, viable path in life.

Timothy Larsen is a professor of Christian thought at Wheaton College, in Illinois. His sixth monograph, The Slain God: Anthropologists and the Christian Faith (Oxford University Press), is forthcoming in August.Hillsborough: Final Anfield memorial service in April Published duration 6 January 2016

image copyright Getty Images image caption The Band of Light was unveiled at the 25th anniversary memorial service at Anfield in April 2014

The final Anfield memorial service to remember 96 football fans who died at Hillsborough will take place in April.

Memorial services have been held at Liverpool's stadium most years since the disaster on 15 April 1989.

Hillsborough families have agreed that this year's service - on the 27th anniversary - will be the final one.

The coroner at the inquests into the fatal crush at the Sheffield stadium will start summing up evidence later this month.

The decision to end the Anfield services was made by the Hillsborough Family Support Group (HFSG) following consultation with the relatives of those