At the end of this month, Crossway Books is set to release The End of Secularism . It is authored by Hunter Baker , who is presently Director of Strategic Planning and Associate Provost at Houston Baptist University (HBU), where he teaches in the Department of Government. Hunter was my . . . . Continue Reading »
Hat tip to Francis Beckwith over at First Thoughts: The Washington Post’s Charles Lane analyzes the notorious section 1233 of the House health care reform bill, the part dealing with end of life counseling. From the story:Section 1233, however, addresses compassionate goals in disconcerting . . . . Continue Reading »
This issue has arisen in recent days. Supporters of H.R. 3200 claim that its end of life counseling provision, section 1233 , is merely voluntary for the patient. But a closer look shows that section 1233 includes conditions and financial incentives for physicians and other health care providers . . . . Continue Reading »
Sometimes it takes days, weeks, or even months for insight into the significance of an obscure text to gestate. And then sometimes it merely takes a serendipitous intersection of disparate sources. In The Star of Redemption, Franz Rosenzweig presented “Christianity” as a worldly . . . . Continue Reading »
Sarah Palin is communicating these days on Facebook. Yesterday, she weighed in on Obamacare—worrying about its rationing implications, certainly a legitimate concern. But she used incendiary and frankly, amateur-sounding terms like “death boards” and . . . . Continue Reading »
The handwriting is on the wall everywhere you look about universal health care: If you provide almost all things medical to all people, you are going to have a fiscal crisis. That’s just common sense. No matter how eloquently our president tries to pretend otherwise, . . . . Continue Reading »
Cards on the table, since those who dare even to broach this subject are inevitably subjected to name-calling. The ” collapsing consensus ” notwithstanding, I’m among those who believe that the earth is getting warmer, that human beings probably have something to do with it, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Sarah Palin has weighed in against Obamacare, worrying that centralized control over what is (and is not) covered could result in rationing against the most weak and vulnerable. From the story:Palin, in her first policy statement since resigning as Alaska governor, wrote on her Facebook page . . . . Continue Reading »
In May 2009 the Bishop of Paisley, Rt Rev Philip Tartaglia, issued a pastoral letter — read aloud to every parish in Scotland — cautioning Catholics against an obsessive reliance upon new technology : “In dialogue with others we need to be wary of the inane chatter that can go on . . . . Continue Reading »
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