March 17, 2016

Abortion

5 Fears That Keep Pastors from Preaching about Abortion by Mark Campbell

Meet The One Down Syndrome Girl Cosmo Doesn’t Want To Kill by Joy Pullmann – “Madeline Stuart is the world’s only fashion model with Down Syndrome. Cosmo says we can kill people like her as long as they’re not born yet.”

162 Abortion Clinics in the United States Kill Unborn Babies After 20 Weeks by Cheryl Sullenger and Karen Myers

Uproar over British NHS proposal to harvest damaged babies’ organs

Bioethics

Your Personality in a Robot Not “You” by Wesley J. Smith 

Creation

Video: Biology of the Baroque – “‘The Biology of the Baroque’ is a documentary that explores the amazing patterns, order, and beauty in biology that go beyond what can be explained by Darwinian evolution. It features geneticist Michael Denton and is inspired by Denton’s new book Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis (2016).”

End-of-Life

CBS’s “60 Minutes” and the Selling of Physician-assisted Suicide by Nancy Valko

Assisted suicide: An idea that loses appeal as it becomes tangible by Charles Camosy – “It also upends ideologies. Liberals may find themselves opposed, as they should be.”

Bobby Schindler wows eighth annual Youth Conference

Family Living

10 Bible Verses About Marriage That May Surprise You by Shane Pruitt

Parents’ church attendance linked to positive child development by Nicole M. King

Worldview and Culture

St. Patrick’s vision of freedom and world-transformation by Dr. Joel McDurmon

World’s oldest man with Down’s syndrome celebrates 76th birthday

Ordinary people know very little about the Christian faith

Hope, the common good and our duty to the future by Margaret Somerville and Rachael Wong – “A Canadian academic analyses the battle over values in her new book, ‘Bird on an Ethics Wire.'”

Alabama’s Full Faith and Credit in Law not Obergefell by Jake MacAulay

Why the New Definition of Tolerance Is Dangerous by Amy K. Hall

A Pro-Choice Atheist’s Inconsistency by Tim Barnett