This is Suicide Prevention Week, and tomorrow is Suicide Prevention Day. Who knew? Have you seen any publicity about this important work? I sure haven’t. That begs a question: Why has suicide prevention become almost invisible? Part of the blame goes to the corrosive impact . . . . Continue Reading »
What doesn’t the public understand or appreciate about your job? The Atlantic asked their readers and were provided with some fascinating answers from a broad range of occupations. For example, in “A is for Army soldier”: The thing that surprises people is that some of the most . . . . Continue Reading »
When I was practicing law full time from the mid 1970s into the 1980s, there was tremendous on emphasis suicide prevention. Hotlines proliferated, anti suicide billboards were ubiquitous, and a great deal of attention was paid to the issue throughout society.Then, the assisted suicide movement . . . . Continue Reading »
Iranian Homosexual Executions Reveal Dangers of Islamic Law Institute on Religion & Democracy My Guantanamo Experience: Support Interrogation, Reject Torture Public Discourse , Jennifer S. Bryson Daddy, Where Do Jobs Comes From? The Gospel Coalition , Kevin DeYoung The First Church of Facebook New . . . . Continue Reading »
In the United Kingdom, a Tory Member of Parliament is calling on the government to forbid churches that won’t perform same-sex weddings from being able to perform weddings at all : In a letter to David Cameron the south coast MP had said that the proposed Coalition amendment to the 2010 . . . . Continue Reading »
I think you can look at Perry’s performance yesterday as either a floor or a ceiling. It was his first time out and just about everybody was looking to take him down. Romney wants Perry’s more competence/electability-focused voters and Bachmann and the rest want . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been fighting the international campaign to legalize and normalize doctor-prescribed/administered death since 1993, and this much I know: Once euthanasia is let in the door, ultimately, enough is never, ever enough.Par exemple: Euthanasia activists often assure that no doctor will be forced . . . . Continue Reading »
In May the death of Osama bin Laden raised the question of what was the appropriate way for Christians to respond. At the time I was somewhat disturbed by what I considered excess celebration. “We must never forget that the evil comes not from the actions of ‘subhuman vermin’ but . . . . Continue Reading »
No wonder the president is smiling: The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed two Obamacare appeals, one from Virginia and one from Liberty University. But neither reached the constitutional question, dismissing the cases for a purported lack of standing to bring the cases. From . . . . Continue Reading »
The Chiaroscuro Foundation has released data on New York City’s high abortion rate by zip code. That data is depicted on a map at nyc41percent.com . The map will enable New York residents to find out what the abortion rate is in their neighborhoods, and we hope it will encourage them to . . . . Continue Reading »
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