According to the Guardian newspaper, people with intellectual disabilities such as Down syndrome continue to be told that they will not be resuscitated if they become ill with COVID.
For Christians in the days ahead, Lisa Miller’s story, especially her choices and their consequences, offer incredibly important lessons.
Three years ago, 110 Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted by terrorists. Leah remains a prisoner, a “captive for Christ.”
We want to believe that there’s more to life than meeting our basic survival needs of food, water, shelter, and safety. At best, without meaning, we resort to a kind of detachment and resignation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has, and I quote, “exposed the ugliness of Christian persecution in a new way.”
The Early Church grew. It wasn’t because of an emphasis on evangelism, public preaching, or other missionary activities. By emphasizing patience, the Church Fathers mobilized early Christians to be profoundly counter-cultural.
Researchers at the Salk Institute took pig embryos and implanted human pluripotent stem cells, or cells that can produce any kind of body tissue.
More than a few people wrote to ask us if the problems raised by IVF, particularly the issue of so-called “excess embryos,” could be solved by what’s called “snowflake adoption.”
An agnostic historian just offered some interesting advice to Christians who want to be heard in a skeptical culture: “Preach the weird stuff.”
After describing his mother’s decision to not abort him, Bocelli adds, “Maybe I’m partisan, but I can say that it was the right choice.”
