Medicine is unfriendly to those who root bioethics in their religious faith. Two new books challenge that.
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Acton’s Religion & Liberty reviews Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision and Bioethics: A Primer for Christians (4th ed.) - R&L
Hopeful signs about Generation Z
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“there are hopeful signs that so much adversity has made Generation Z resilient. Consider the spontaneous outpouring of prayer, fasting, and worship among Christian college students, first witnessed at Asbury College in Kentucky and then spread around the nation.” - World
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Should Christians idealize dictatorships or even suggest dictatorship for America?
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“In the current ‘post-liberal’ moment, there’s a new Christian authoritarian chic. Recent examples include a conservative Christian finding virtue with East German communism, and another extolling a ‘Protestant’ Francisco Franco for America.” - Providence
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“Organizing petitions and boycotts is temporary and usually futile.”
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“I am finished with Target. I do not care how many other people go to the store, what boycotts are happening… walking down an aisle where a gay-trans agenda is being pushed upon children is abhorrent to me. A company that promotes such an attack on children will never ever get my business again.” - P&D
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Elon Musk's brain chip startup gets FDA approval to start human trials; patient registry open
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“With this connection, the device — a coin-sized chip called the ‘Link’ — allows for continuous communication and is designed to not only ‘read’ neural activity but ‘write’ signals into the brain.” - CPost
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Pew research: Family time is far more important than other aspects of life for most Americans
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“About three-quarters of U.S. adults (73%) rate spending time with family as one of the most important things to them personally, regardless of how much time they actually devote to it.” - Pew
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A critique of Patrick Deneen’s ‘Why Liberalism Failed’
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“Deneen calls for ‘a new elite … dedicated to the promotion and construction of a society that assists ordinary fellow citizens in achieving lives of flourishing.’ The result is a regime that is ‘left-economic and social-conservative.’” - Public Discourse
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Denmark study: “A third of schizophrenia in young men is linked to marijuana use.”
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“Increased potency of marijuana in the global market is a factor, and lawmakers have ‘decreas[ed] the public’s perception of its harm,’ according to the study’s lead author.” - Breakpoint
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Worries mount about misinformation in science
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“ ‘The real problem isn’t people. It’s the reward structure on social platforms’…. the incentives for scientists to publish and for journals to attract readers, jargon and other features of scientific publishing — can also contribute” - Axios
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Poppies & Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
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