A physician explores medicine, faith, culture and life's passions
Discussions on Christianity, its beliefs, challenging topics, and arguments for and against.
First of a series of essays on the challenge of understanding miracles in Christianity
On miracles: is there a discrepancy between the Jesus of history and the Jesus of faith?
Is there evidence outside of the Scriptures that Jesus existed?
Can the Scriptures be believed in what they say about Jesus?
The importance of the empty tomb: miracle or myth?
The historical illusion of peaceful coexistence with Islam.
They say that hell is hot. Sometimes, however, it is very, very cold. Triumph in tragedy.
The empty pursuit of long life without purpose -- and its alternative.
One of the most challenging areas where medicine, ethics, morality, and social policy collide is that of end-of life decisions.
To deny the reality of hell after death is to guarantee its incarnation in life.
"Do you believe that those of us who fail to accept grace will be tortured?"
It has become common knowledge that much of our educational system longer exists to impart the fundamentals of math, science, ethics, history...