Is It Fair For Baseball To Reject Drugs But Embrace Surgery? Why do we view the use of a particular brand of artificial, performance-altering technology–shoulder surgery for pitchers–as exemplary of the positive role medicine plays in baseball, but we view the use of other kinds of medical technologies — performance-enhancing medicines — as somehow anathema? […]
Faith in Fiction
Faith in Fiction While religion significantly matters in minor literary contexts today (as with the eccentric popularity of Amish romance novels) and in vulgar commercial contexts (as with Dan Brown’s books), serious literary fiction largely occupies its very own naked public square, shorn of any reference to religiously informed understandings of who and what we […]
Abortion Viewed in Moral Terms in America
Abortion Viewed in Moral Terms — Regardless of their views about the legality of abortion, most Americans think having an abortion is a moral issue. By contrast, the public is much less likely to see other issues involving human embryos – such as stem cell research or in vitro fertilization – as a matter of […]
What Being Pro-Life Really Means
The Lutheran Forum What Being “Pro-life” Truly Means by Paul Sauer. It is no longer simply enough for the church to speak out against abortion. It must also speak in favor caring for the poor, the orphan, the disabled, and the marginalized. Only then can we begin to change the fundamental way in which our […]
