First Things RSS Feed - Patrick C. Beeman https://www.firstthings.com/author/patrick-c-beeman en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:51:27 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/patrick-c-beeman 60 Rich Mullins, Asymptotic Catholic https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/03/rich-mullins-asymptotic-catholic https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/03/rich-mullins-asymptotic-catholic Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:03:00 -0400 Rich Mullins Rich Mullins’ songs are some of the most recognizable and enduring tunes in contemporary Christian music”a genre heavily influenced by and almost exclusively marketed to Evangelicals. Still, even Catholics and mainline Protestants recognize the refrain of his best-known hit, “Awesome God”:

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]]> The Philosophy of Medicine Reborn https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/05/the-philosophy-of-medicine-reb https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2008/05/the-philosophy-of-medicine-reb Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Where is the profession of medicine going? Has it become simply applied biology, another “job” among equally good ways of earning a living? What kind of person should the physician be? What about bioethics? Is patient autonomy the only viable moral absolute? Oh, and¯who is Dr. Edmund Pellegrino?

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