A physician explores medicine, faith, culture and life's passions
Tackling the common and challenging issues in society and contemporary culture.
Often in the sturm und drang of a world gone mad, there comes, through the chaos and insanity, some brief moment of clarity. Such times pass by.....
In a discussion in the past with a very bright and well-written libertarian friend, I took him to task for a position supporting for legalization of prostitution......
In recent essays we’ve been mud-wrestling about scientific materialism vs. faith — especially with that peculiar disdain and condescension secular scientists often exude toward those foolish enough.....
My first observation is one of puzzled bemusement, wondering why our good astronomer, and so many of his friends, seem compelled to bother with those crazy creationists.
Some things, it seems, never change: scientists never have doubts — and those who doubt their unerring wisdom must be mentally unwell.
In a culture of cartoon heroes, a real hero appears.
A wise friend—a man who helped me emerge from a period of considerable difficulty in my life—once taught me a simple lesson.
Liberation from bondage to shame through openness, vulnerability, and grace.
Cloaked in slogans of personal autonomy and “Death with Dignity”, euthanasia proponents seek to replace the sterile prolongation of a now-meaningless life with the warm embrace of.....
In the years following the Great War, a sense of doom and panic settled over Germany. Long concerned about a declining birth rate, the country faced the.....
We now deny God while worshipping at the alter of science and materialism.
In contemporary social and political discourse, we frequently hear of the Rule of Law, especially in our postmodern culture where bad behavior is often justified (and excused).....