Were the Church Fathers Consistently Pro-Life? — Ron Sider, who founded Evangelicals for Social Action, has written on a variety of ethical issues (Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, founder of Evangelicals for Social Action). In The Early Church on Killing (Baker Academic, 2012), Sider turns from advocacy to scholarship, compiling every extant extrabiblical […]
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The Religious Alternative to Obamacare
The Religious Alternative to Obamacare — For people who fall into a few select categories, the Affordable Care Act mandate doesn’t apply. Members of “health care sharing ministries,” is a way for individuals with a “common set of ethical or religious beliefs” to share medical bills.
Pitching With a Purpose
Pitching with a Purpose — Clayton Kershaw, pitching ace for the Dodgers, said he wants to be known as a Christian who happens to play baseball, not as a baseball player who happens to be a Christian. Judging by his on-field accomplishments, he has his work cut out for him: He’s a three-time All-Star, a […]
Baseball: Drugs, No; Surgery, Yes? (from NPR 13.7)
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? […]
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 […]
