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Archive: May 24, 2009 - May 30, 2009
Sometimes Government Must Act
The courts should exercise great caution in undermining a family's rights or disallowing any lifestyle.
By John Mark Reynolds | May 29, 2009; 1:42 PM ET | Comments (1)
Shavuot: Better to Give than Receive
For Jews, Shavuot may represent the time of the giving the Torah but the time in which it is received takes far longer than a day. It takes a lifetime.
By Erica Brown | May 29, 2009; 8:00 AM ET | Comments (2)
Use Every Available Means To Save A Life
Jews consider life one of the supreme values and believe that one has to use every available means to save a life.
By Adin Steinsaltz | May 27, 2009; 5:53 PM ET | Comments (0)
Save the Child First
I am glad Daniel Hauser is back home and will get the chemotherapy he needs to stay alive. And I am sure God is OK with it. I would rather risk going against the tenets of my faith and going to hell than let my child die.
By Susan K. Smith | May 27, 2009; 1:45 PM ET | Comments (5)
If Ruth Came to America
As we celebrate Shavuot and Pentecost, consider what might happen if the biblical Ruth, welcomed even though she was a foreigner, came to America today.
By Arthur Waskow | May 27, 2009; 12:44 PM ET | Comments (0)
Prejudging Spiritual Healing
To pronounce all of spiritual healing to be dangerous and ineffective without a fair and impartial examination is the very definition of prejudice. And doesn't that lead us away from what is truly best for children?
By Phil Davis | May 26, 2009; 3:33 PM ET | Comments (24)
Holy Healing is Genuine Healing
As someone who has survived cancer, I am enormously grateful for the skill of doctors and for my tradition in encouraging that healing art. I prayed, but I did not and would not rely on prayer. It is bad theology, and when done for someone else in place of treating them, it is the cruelty born of credulity or of simple ignorance.
By David Wolpe | May 26, 2009; 11:21 AM ET | Comments (0)
What About the Child?
In these cases I advise what the great Reformer Martin Luther advised -- take your medicine and put your trust in God. For parents, this means to give your child the best care that modern medicine can offer, and to entrust your precious child to God and to God alone.
By R. Albert Mohler Jr. | May 26, 2009; 9:52 AM ET | Comments (1)
Save the Child, Born and Unborn
It's too bad the government wants to intervene only on the behalf of the life of an already-born child and sees no role in protecting the life of the innocent unborn.
By Cal Thomas | May 26, 2009; 9:25 AM ET | Comments (6)
Child Sacrifice Persists, and We're All Complicit
Child sacrifice should horrify us. But the fact that it still exists, and is making headlines in a number of states, should not really surprise us.
By Brad Hirschfield | May 25, 2009; 9:27 AM ET | Comments (3)
