The Swiss are preparing the ground to ration health care. They don’t have enough doctors and many people can’t afford their share of the cost of treatments. Then, a judge limited the money that could be spent on a patient’s care! From the Swissinfo.ch story:Doctors . . . . Continue Reading »
Chuck Colson in Grave Condition Reuters/Washington Post Cardinal Dolan: One of 100 ‘Most Influential’ People Jon Meacham, Time What’s Wrong with Rights? Chase Madar, The American Conservative Descendents of Tolkien and Dickens to Collaborate Dave Itzkoff, New York Times Ross . . . . Continue Reading »
Please pray for Chuck Colson and for his family members, who have been called to his bedside in Fairfax, Virginia. Please pray also for the staff at Prison Fellowship and the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, who call him founder, brother, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Part of the responsibility of ministry leaders is having an awareness of influences that have guided the minds of our culture and, therefore, the church. No church exists in a vacuum and to varying degrees, everyone has had ideas and beliefs shaped by the world around them. So it is with great . . . . Continue Reading »
The (comparatively tiny) but growing percentage of expectant mothers opting for “natural” birth methods and home care has alarmed one French feminist (Elisabeth Badinter), whose newest book, The Mommy Trap , functions as a sort of anti-Luddite treatise, according to Heather . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on Philip II, China, and the great Catholic “what-if” : History being linear, “What if . . . .?” is an unanswerable question—but always a fascinating one. What if George Washington had failed in New York in the early days of the American revolution and the . . . . Continue Reading »
I have a piece out in the Human Life Review decrying the “unrepentant bigotry” that allows people with profound disabilities to be denegrated as “skin bags” (as one example), or if profoundly cognitively disabled, as mere flora. From “That Unrepentant . . . . Continue Reading »
Today is National Sign an Advance Directive Day, or something like that. And the stories are out trying to stimulate us to action. As I have noticed when proposals to legalize assisted suicide are reported, they are all the same. It’s cookie cutter journalism: Start with a horror . . . . Continue Reading »
R. J. Snell, writing for Public Discourse , tries to answer the question of whether natural law is persuasive to anyone not already convinced: First, natural lawyers needn’t convince or persuade anyone, for in an important way natural law cannot be proven—law is the condition . . . . Continue Reading »
Professor Patrick Deneen has posted the text of one of his recent lectures to his blog, What I Saw in America . In his remarks, delivered to the University of Texas at Austin (originally under the title “Against Great Books,” later softened to “Why Great . . . . Continue Reading »
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