Ryan Sayre Patrico

Over at the New York Times , Dana Jennings offers an extremely candid look at his battle with prostate cancer and the way it has deepened his understanding and appreciation of marriage: These days, I epitomize the “in sickness” part of the wedding vows that Deb and I took back in 1981. . . . . Continue Reading »

In the latest issue of New Scientist , Michael Brooks tries to explain religious belief away with evolutionary theory: While many institutions collapsed during the Great Depression that began in 1929, one kind did rather well. During this leanest of times, the strictest, most authoritarian churches . . . . Continue Reading »

Bat Ye’or, the Egyptian-born British historian who specializes in the history of Christian and Jewish dhimmis and is the author of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis , Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide , and The Decline of Eastern Christianity: From Jihad to Dhimmitude will be taking . . . . Continue Reading »

We’ve got a thick stack of applications for this year’s Junior Fellowships sitting here in the office, but, hey, I don’t see yours among them. We’ve already told you about the position and why you should apply , so go for it . You won’t regret it. The deadline is fast . . . . Continue Reading »

Because, when we don’t know who we are, we also don’t know what we aren’t: This question is starting to get debated by robot designers and toymakers. With advanced robotics becoming cheaper and more commonplace, the challenge isn’t how we learn to accept robots—but . . . . Continue Reading »

Eluana Englaro, the 38-year-old comatose Italian woman whose feeding tube was removed late last week, has died : Maurizio Sacconi made the announcement in Italy’s Senate as politicians were debating a law that would have forced doctors to continue feeding her . . . . Doctors at a private . . . . Continue Reading »

Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor, the Archbishop of Westminister, has penned an opinion piece on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth reaffirming the compatibility of faith and science in general, and of evolution and Christianity in particular: This week we will be . . . . Continue Reading »

I mentioned last week that Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who has spent the last seventeen years in a vegetative state, was being moved to a private health care facility so that she can be deprived of the nutrients necessary to live. Late last week, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stepped in to . . . . Continue Reading »

From an AP story out of Tampa, FL : The Board of Medicine has revoked the license of a Florida doctor accused of medical malpractice in a botched abortion case in which a live baby was delivered, but ended up dead in a cardboard box. The board on Friday found Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique in . . . . Continue Reading »

From ABC News, a moving story of sin and forgiveness: Nearly half a century ago, in a very different America, Elwin Wilson and John Lewis met under a veil of violence and race-inspired hate. Wilson, a young, white, Southern man, attacked Lewis, a freedom rider for Martin Luther King, in the . . . . Continue Reading »