August 21, 2017

Abortion

Court Says Arkansas Can Block Medicaid Funding for Planned by Nicole Russell

A Pile of Dead People by Judie Brown

Bioethics

Transhumanism Is Not Libertarian, It’s an Abomination by Kai Weiss – “Eugenics? Immortality? This is a non-starter.”

The “Brave New World” of Down Syndrome Eugenics by Brian Mark Weber – “Leftists laud Iceland for killing Down syndrome babies before they’re born so as to ‘prevent suffering.'”

Creation

Ouch: A Slashing New Anti-Darwin Biography from Darwin’s Own Publisher by David Klinghoffer

End-of-Life

Should We Starve Alzheimer’s Patients? by Wesley J. Smith

Death on Demand? Dutch Euthanasia Moves in Disturbing Direction by Emma Elliott Freire – “Are dementia and psych patients truly deciding?”

Family Living

Persistence pays off for Down syndrome girl, parents by Bradley Mattes

Fetal Development

High five mum! Incredible image of unborn baby’s hand at 20 weeks

Music

Video: Grandson Sings To 98-Year-Old Bedridden Grandma

Video: The Isaacs – Heroes

Sexual Purity

A Day In The Life Of An Abstinence Ed Teacher by Sarah Gomez – “Successful abstinence education begins with establishing and reiterating every child’s invaluable self-worth.”

Are Sex and Marriage Issues of Orthodoxy? Yes, they are … by John Stonestreet & G. Shane Morris – “Can Christians agree to disagree about same-sex “marriage”? Or is accepting homosexuality heresy? These are big questions, and I’ll venture answers.”

Worldview and Culture

Why It’s Ridiculous To Blame The Reformation For Secularization by Korey Maas – “Lamentations over the Reformation tend to focus on, not theology, but what are viewed as its inevitable and detrimental social and political consequences.”

Issues, Etc. Journal – “A Listener’s Guide to the Pulpit” (PDF)

In America, Hate is Taught but the Bible is Not by Jake MacAulay

Defector: “Church is growing,” as new report highlights plight of Christianity in North Korea by Tola Mbakwe

The inspiring life of Ruth Pfau, leprosy doctor by Carolyn Moynihan – “The death of a nun who worked for 50 years in Pakistan closes a life of Christian service.”

We Can Define The Number Of Sexes With A Greek Letter, Or Get Sane Already by Al Giambrone – “One can surmise that a judge who has the power to change the number of sexes in the human race also has the power to put you in jail if you deny the new truth she has created.”

Dear NYT: Most Women Won’t Trade “Great Sex” For Communist Labor Camps by Jessica Burke – “The New York Times argued this week that our memories of communist Europe—food shortages, secret police, the repression—do not provide a complete picture of life then. Get a grip.”

Whoa, Bethsaida! – Archaeologists May Have Found Peter’s Home Town by Eric Metaxas & Roberto Rivera – “Archaeologists may have found a place that Jesus—as well as Peter, Andrew, and Philip—knew very well.”

Left And Right Can Find Common Ground In Opposing Authoritarianism by Katrina Willis – “Conservatives have a unique opportunity to make allies of certain liberal-thinking Americans. Let’s stop talking about right and left and begin discussing big and small.”

The Lord’s Supper Condemns the Evil of Racism by Amy K. Hall