Abortion is often defended from the perspective that a new life, a child, disrupts the patterns, hopes, and aspirations which preexisted this nascent human being. People have plans, they have lifestyles, they expect tomorrow to look something like today. When we introduce a new being into our lives, we introduce resistance, unexpected challenges, and [...]
Few characters in literature are more detestable than Mikolka. We meet him in Chapter 5 of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, a book I am currently reading for the 5th time in the fourth different translation (It was originally published in Russian in 1866). Mikolka shows up in a fever dream of the [...]
A pastor recently asked my opinion on another Christian speaker. The pastor expressed reservations concerning the manner the speaker in question tends toward being, in his words, provocative and ungracious. Under normal circumstances I avoid discussing other speakers, but this speaker had come up in conversations several times lately. Rather than attack the man, [...]
The Stranger Albert Camus The Stranger, originally published in French as L’Etranger in 1942, is a short brutally minimalist book written by Algerian born French Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus. Camus once stated in an interview that the core message of the story is that if you don’t show sufficient emotion at your mother’s death [...]
A commonly reported fear from critics of laws restricting abortion is doctors will be fearful to take lifesaving action out of concern the proper medical intervention will be erroneously perceived as an illegal abortion. Two articles from ProPublica (here and here) go so far as to blame laws restricting abortion for the deaths of [...]
