This episode addresses despair and community. We discuss how assessing human dignity through instrumental criteria or immediately practicable capacities leads to troubling issues in end of life care. The view that all human beings have value by virtue of what we are, intrinsic dignity grounded in our humanity, ought to lead to [...]
Kicking off Human Things 2.0 with Alycia Wood of the C.S. Lewis Society. In this video we review VP Kamala Harris and her view of natural rights and the kind of rights we have in virtue of the Declaration of Independence. The right to life is the preeminent right among natural rights [...]
“The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.” Genesis 6:5-6 “The Bible’s picture of human nature, conveyed [...]
I love the Silent Night. Not the Christmas song, though I love that, too. I am talking about THE Silent Night, the first Christmas as told in Chapter 2 of The Gospel of Luke...
Blogging Through the Bible with an Eye Toward Life The Lineage from Adam to Noah: The Story of Generations This chapter charts the lineage from Adam to Noah. It is the second lineage of Genesis, the first coming in Chapter 4 with the lineage of Cain to Lamech and his sons. Cain’s lineage created [...]
