The defenses of the NHS are growing so untenable. In the latest horror story, one in six patients receive misdiagnoses. From the story:As many as one in six patients treated in NHS hospitals and GPs’ surgeries is being misdiagnosed, experts have warned. Doctors were making mistakes . . . . Continue Reading »
A UK woman was implanted with the wrong embryo and will have to give birth to another woman’s child. From the storyA pregnant mother will have to give birth to another couple’s baby after a blunder by an IVF clinic. Carolyn Savage had the wrong embryos implanted into her and will have to . . . . Continue Reading »
Uh . . . how about “Default is all mine?” As in, I’ve spent the last three-and-a-half hours writing a religious-news roundup post with umpteen gazillion links — and I’ve somehow managed to lose the whole thing. Totally. Completely. Poof. Into thin air. The computer has . . . . Continue Reading »
This was oh, so predictable: Once the UK head prosecutor decriminalized relatives assisting the suicides of their suffering loved ones, you knew the activists would sense the weakness of resolve and demand more. And sure enough, within a day, an old time euthanasia ideologue named Dr. Michael . . . . Continue Reading »
Theologian Russell Moore explains why the John Edwards scandal matters : It matters because it highlights, first of all, a key cause of the poverty Sen. Edwards once commendably made a central aspect of his presidential campaign. Numberless children wake up in grinding poverty because their fathers . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the greatest injustices of the Terri Schiavo case was the adamant refusal of Judge Greer to permit a renowned University of Chicago rehabilitation expert work with Terri to help her relearn how to swallow. (Michael Schiavo had protected his future inheritance by denying her any and all . . . . Continue Reading »
At the most recent World Congress of Families in Amsterdam, family scholar Pat Fagan argued that the culture of the traditional family is now in intense competition with a very different culture : The defining difference between the two is the sexual ideal embraced. The traditional family of . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking of Star Wars , Joe, Tesco’s, a retail chain in Britain roughly comparable to a mini Wal-Mart here in the States, wants people who enter their premises to reveal their identity, presumably so a store manager can ID anyone running out the door with that box of Weetabix under his arm. . . . . Continue Reading »
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“Rhetoric detached from morality harms people and societies,” says Biola University professor John Mark Reynolds. As Reynolds notes, political rhetoric has become more hateful and extreme —leading to behaviors that Christians should avoid: “Jesus called us to love our enemies . . . . Continue Reading »
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