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Mea Culpa

September 27th, 2007 · 9 Comments

I’ve decided to pull a post from earlier today. It was an attempt to use humor to point out the insanity of secular multiculturalism, using this story as a jump-off point.
The humor used was too edgy, and too offensive. I was called on this by a brother in Christ, and initially reacted defensively, but he […]

Tags: Politics & Culture · Social Issues

Katrina Euthanasia Update

June 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Lost in the dustbin of inconvenient memories, left behind in the light-speed pace of internet information mania is the story of the deaths of patients at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. A physician and two nurses were arrested after the Louisiana District Attorney charged them with murder, accusing them […]

Tags: Euthanasia · Death & Dying · Ethics & Morality · Social Issues · Medicine

Moving the Ancient Boundaries - IV

April 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments

This is a series on the erosion of moral, cultural, and ethical boundaries in modern society:
 
 ♦ Part 1 — Moving the Ancient Boundaries
 
 ♦ Part 2 — The Rebel & the Victim
 
 ♦ Part 3 — Undermining Civil Authority
 

Do not move the ancient boundary stone   set up by your forefathers.
        – Proverbs 22:28 –
 
 ♦ The Assault on Religious Authority
Undermining the legitimacy of civil […]

Tags: Series: Moving the Ancient Boundaries · Ethics & Morality · Politics & Culture · Social Issues · Faith & Religion

Moving the Ancient Boundaries - III

March 27th, 2007 · 6 Comments

This is a series on the erosion of moral, cultural, and ethical boundaries in modern society:
 
 ♦ Part 1 — Moving the Ancient Boundaries
 
 ♦ Part 2 — The Rebel & the Victim
 

Do not move the ancient boundary stone   set up by your forefathers.
        – Proverbs 22:28 –
 
In prior posts, we began to examine some of the many ways which a […]

Tags: Series: Moving the Ancient Boundaries · Postmodernism · Ethics & Morality · Politics & Culture · Social Issues

Half-Pint Heroes

January 7th, 2007 · 4 Comments

This week’s news brought the remarkable story of Wesley Autrey, a 50 year-old Vietnam veteran who jumped in front of a subway train to save a man who had fallen onto the tracks while having a seizure.
18-year-old Cameron Hollowpeter suffered a seizure while Autrey, accompanied by his two daughters, was waiting on the platform for […]

Tags: Ethics & Morality · Politics & Culture · Social Issues

Libertarianism & Morality

November 19th, 2006 · 3 Comments

This essay was originally posted in November 2004.
 
On April 25th 1990, the long-awaited Hubble space telescope was launched. In the planning stages since 1967, delayed in deployment for 4 years by the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, scientists were ecstatic at its potential to view deep space as never before from above the atmosphere’s distorting optical […]

Tags: Ethics & Morality · Social Issues · Faith & Religion · General Interest

The Engine of Shame - Pt II

November 18th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Part 2 of a two-part series on shame and guilt.

Tags: Alcohol & Addiction · Series: The Engine of Shame · Politics & Culture · Social Issues · Medicine · Faith & Religion · General Interest

The Engine of Shame - Part I

November 16th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Part 1 of a two-part series on guilt and shame.

Tags: Series: The Engine of Shame · Alcohol & Addiction · Social Issues · Medicine · General Interest