Definitions matter. That point hit me hard as I read an article that wants doctors to be given the right to stop treatment from a man diagnosed to be in a persistent unconscious condition. From “When Family and Doctors Disagree on When to End life.”Hold on: Bad title! Doctors . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m sure a few of you have read this Dennis Prager piece, Why Young Americans Can’t Think Morally on NRO, or have otherwise read about the study of Millenials’ moral thinking he’s referring to. Bottom line for Prager: no belief in God, no morality beyond emotivism, and so the . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter included this in his “First Links” this morning, but I wanted to call readers’ attention again to the fine essay at Public Discourse today by Helen Alvaré, Gerard V. Bradley, and O. Carter Snead, ” Conscience, Coercion, and Healthcare .” It . . . . Continue Reading »
That’s what went through my mind when reading this op-ed by Matthew Avery Sutton, who is bylined as an associate professor of history at Washington State University, and author of Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America . The essay is a bizarre train wreck . . . . Continue Reading »
Currently I am working on a series of articles on Christian ethics with a focus on moral epistemology from, yes, a Reformed Van Tilian perspective. Would love to hear from you on this work:When we hear the term ethics, our minds often race to stories we have heard about bank fraud and other . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember last month when the media noted that the divorce rates in supposedly conservative “red” states was higher than in purportedly liberal “blue” states? That seemed peculiar to Mark Richardson—an Australian!—so he took a closer look at the data : So I went . . . . Continue Reading »
Two years ago, over two-thirds of the congregation of St. Marks-on-the-Mesa of the Diocese of the Rio Grande voted to leave the Episcopal Church to join the Anglican Church in North America. As Rev. Canon Phil Ashey, chief operating and development officer of the American Anglican Council, explains . . . . Continue Reading »
When will enough, finally, be enough. Not only are organs now being sold by desperate people in destitute countries—to the point that some governments have been forced to ban organ transplant surgeries for non citizens or receiving organs from non relatives—but the practice is . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest On the Square feature , William Doino Jr. reviews John Julius Norwich Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy : As one reads on, it becomes clear that Absolute Monarchs has no real interest in the popes, other than to mock or marginalize them, and rob them of their saving grace: . . . . Continue Reading »
As Mark Brumley observes, Martin Luther is “not a popular figure in most Catholic circles.” So why does Pope Benedict express appreciation for the original Protestant ? In his address Benedict makes a number of key points regarding Luther. First, there is Luther’s “burning . . . . Continue Reading »
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