Funeral notices
August 29, 2006 | 1 comment
Have you ever questioned the phrasing “called to the arms of the Lord” when it is written in obituaries? It troubles me when I read the words for they imply it is God’s will for a person to die, which
Category: spirituality
The Israelis, the Palestinians, and land
July 27, 2006 | No comments yet
The Hizballahs attacked the Israelis with rockets over Israel’s northern border, and the Israelis are counter-attacking fiercely. There’s fear of a larger conflict erupting in an already red-hot Middle East. Will the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis ever cease?
Medical mistakes run rampant
July 22, 2006 | No comments yet
A new report states: A hospitalized patient is subject to at least one medication error per day. 1.5 million Americans are injured from medication mistakes every year. No one is claiming health-care professionals are intentionally making these errors, but alarm
The perils of cloning
July 7, 2006 | 1 comment
It’s been ten years since Dolly’s birth, the lamb that was cloned in Scotland. Time magazine reported this week, “Dozens of animals have been cloned since that first little lamb—mice, cats, cows, pigs, horses and, most recently, a dog—and it’s
Be free
July 4, 2006 | 4 comments
July 4th is Independence Day in the United States, a time when US citizens celebrate their right to self-government and self-directed sovereignty. There’s an even greater freedom than political and religious rights, though, that people the world over can celebrate.