A television news report from Belgium is reporting that an elderly Belgian couple received joint euthanasia because they didn’t want to live without each other. Apparently, the community knew ahead of time, as they even planned their joint funeral. Details, analysis, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
From Christianity Today: What’s a Congregation Worth? One non-religious researcher’s best estimate for First Baptist Church, Philadelphia: $6 million in value to the community, almost ten times its annual budget. “Later studies may find even higher . . . . Continue Reading »
This is what the culture of death looks like. An elderly couple didn’t want to live without each other. So, they received a joint euthanasia. Apparently the local community knew they were planning it, as you will see by playing the embed above. From the “euthanasia . . . . Continue Reading »
Last month, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards appeared on CNN’s Joy Behar Show and argued that if federal funding was removed from her corporation, it would lose its ability to provide healthcare services such as mammograms: If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this . . . . Continue Reading »
Sign of the Post-Denominational Times : A Lutheran college that has an Episcopalian as college president is a hit with Jewish students: One of the hottest college campuses in the U.S. for Jewish students is also one of the unlikeliest: a small Lutheran school erected around a soaring stone chapel . . . . Continue Reading »
The recent discussion about evangelicals and the natural law has prompted Dale Coulter, an associate professor of historical theology at Regent University, to weigh in with a perspective from Classical Pentecostalism : Anderson, Ballor, and Carter rightly point out that the issue of the . . . . Continue Reading »
I am trying to raise the alarm that current bioethical policies and advocacy promote the objectification of human life and the denigration of human exceptionalism. This episode is in To The Source, where I discuss organ harvesting coupled with euthanasia. From “No Longer Science . . . . Continue Reading »
Despite having killed three humans , a bull orca is being trotted out to “entertain” the crowds at SeaWorld: Tilikum, the 6-ton whale that drowned a SeaWorld Orlando trainer in 2010 is performing again. Since the tragic accident, SeaWorld officials say they have taken extensive safety . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning in his On the Square column Russell Saltzman shares his intuitions on immigration policy based on his years of research: Now, that said, my immigration policy is simple.Let ‘em all in. That, I cheerfully admit, likely makes for poor public policy. Nonetheless, it is my instinct, . . . . Continue Reading »
As I mentioned a few weeks ago in my weekly column, the global war against baby girls is not just a phenomenon found abroad. In the United States sex ratios at birth for the Chinese-American population, the Japanese-American population, and the Filipino-American population, and for the . . . . Continue Reading »
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