In these darkening days, a little humor is always useful. With Halloween (my least favorite holiday) fast approacing, this primer in surviving zombie attacks is timely. My favorite part is the advice to kill infected friends “with dignity.” . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s the question the Westchester Institute for Ethics & the Human Person , “a research institute conducting interdisciplinary, natural law analysis of complex, contemporary moral issues,” tackles in its latest white paper , “When Does Human Life Begin? A Scientific . . . . Continue Reading »
A couple days ago, Nathaniel discussed an article in the New York Times that highlighted the increasing percentage of woman involved in extramarital affairs. Among other observations, Nathaniel noticed that the language used in the article to refer to the increasing rate of adultery was “the . . . . Continue Reading »
Jane Goodall the primatologist (and novelist since so much of her work is anthropomorphic, a charge she readily admits), along with fellow primatologist Toshisada Nishida, have won the coveted Leakey Prize, named after Louis Leakey, the famed anthropologist who sought to prove that humans first . . . . Continue Reading »
Why do media so often describe non-dying people who want assisted suicide as terminally ill? Is it on purpose? Mostly, I don’t think so. I think they have accepted a false premise; that assisted suicide is about terminal illness. So when someone who is not dying wants assisted suicide, . . . . Continue Reading »
I am a special consultant to the CBC and proud of it. This new promo video only tells the half of the energetic engagement with bioethical issues in which the CBC engages. A certain gray haired/bearded rapidly aging fellow even makes a brief appearance. Check it out. . . . . Continue Reading »
The romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, for all his earnest and ethereal musings, his Skylarks and his West Winds , is sometimes wonderfully funny. To read some of his poems, one would think he was satirizing himself and his age, only he writesno, wafts, soars, swoops, descantswith such . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s Los Angeles Times echoes the survey from Faith in Public Life , but mentions a small exception to the general trend: What we’re seeing in these three swing states is the end of the Catholic vote, as conventional political strategists traditionally have expected it to . . . . Continue Reading »
Researchers have known for a while now that piety can help protect a person from depression and anxiety. Now, a new study published online in Psychological Medicine has gone further in developing the relationship between mental health and spirituality by comparing the effectiveness of different . . . . Continue Reading »
New York’s Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the world’s largest gothic cathedral, offers this on the evening of October 31: a “Halloween Extravaganza & Procession of the Ghouls.” For $15 you can sit in the nave and watch a screening of the silent movie “The . . . . Continue Reading »