I did an hour radio interview today on the Regina Brett Show, WKSU in Ohio, about so-called death with dignity. A representative of the assisted suicide advocacy group Final Exit Network also appeared, along with two hospice professionals, also appeared on the program. If you are . . . . Continue Reading »
A baby was born in France because his parents wanted to use his umbilical cord stem cells to treat the genetic disease of their existing children. From the story:France’s first so-called “saviour sibling” was born in a hospital in the Parisian suburb of Clamart in late . . . . Continue Reading »
We had another bullying incident affect one of our children today. Something like this has happened in our family every year (this one is mild by comparison to some others, thankfully).It’s going on everywhere. A student at another high school just a mile from our home committed suicide last . . . . Continue Reading »
Raymond Tallis on the metaphysical limitations of neuroscience : The republic of letters is in thrall to an unprecedented scientism. The word is out that human consciousness - from the most elementary tingle of sensation to the most sophisticated sense of self - is identical with neural activity in . . . . Continue Reading »
Shahbaz Bhatti was a Catholic and a Pakistani minister for the defense of minorities who dedicated his life to the “struggle for human equality, social justice, religious freedom, and to uplift and empower the religious minorities’ communities.” He was assasinated yesterday . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a tragic development in a context already fraught with difficulties for believers in this troubled south Asian country: Pakistan’s only Christian cabinet member assassinated. Last December our family met Shahbaz Bhatti’s brother Peter and a colleague at a Presbyterian-sponsored . . . . Continue Reading »
The Ohio legislature will soon hear “testimony” from it’s youngest witness ever : A fetus has been scheduled as a legislative witness in Ohio on a unique bill that proposes outlawing abortions after the first heartbeat can be medically detected. Faith2Action, the anti-abortion . . . . Continue Reading »
If you haven’t already heard, Rob Bell is being judged. Or so say his defenders in the wake of a post by Justin Taylor that concluded that Bell “is moving farther and farther away from anything resembling biblical Christianity.” Perhaps there is something to question in saying . . . . Continue Reading »
There would seem to be no obvious connection between Missionary Baptists in Florida and Psalm-singers in the Western Isles of Scotland. But hear for yourselves the striking similarities between the way two communities of Christians worship . . . . Continue Reading »
Almost every news report on the Church contains errors, but some journalistic misunderstandings are so risible they make one wonder if the journalism profession is populated primarily by disaffected Catholics. A recent story on a married German priest is a good example, especially given current . . . . Continue Reading »
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