[EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is part of our series on controversial questions. A NO post will normally follow a YES post. Join in by posting your comments.] by Bob MacDonald That is the question. As I was walking to the medical clinic for my quarterly blood test – following up on cancer treatment, I was…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is part of our series on controversial questions. A NO post will normally follow a YES post. Join in by posting your comments.] by Lee Wyatt I do not believe the future is either open or preordained. At least in the oppositional sense in which they are usually paired. To read…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is part of our series on controversial questions. A NO post will normally follow a YES post. Join in by posting your comments.] by Steve Kindle Definitions Suicide: the taking of one’s life by one’s own hand. Euthanasia [lit. ‘a good death’] or Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS): the taking of one’s…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is part of our series on controversial questions. A NO post will normally follow a YES post. Join in by posting your comments.] by Jody Neufeld Euthanasia as a concept of supporting someone as they were dying is attributed to Francis Bacon in the 16th century. He wrote of helping a…
by Henry Neufeld There are those who wonder why Energion Publications publishes fiction. We do this both with our Christian fiction category, our imprints Enzar Empire Press, and Eucatastrophe Press. We don’t require that this fiction be Christian themed. On January 13, 2016 we will start a new blog for our fiction authors, Nurturing Creativity….
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is part of our series on controversial questions. A NO post will normally follow a YES post. Join in by posting your comments.] by H. Van Dyke Parunak, Ph.D. This question rests on a more fundamental issue: What is the source of our knowledge about spiritual issues? In general, there are…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is part of our series on controversial questions. A NO post will normally follow a YES post. Join in by posting your comments.] by Herold Weiss Whether one takes as normative the significance given to the Incarnation in the gospel According to John or the significance of the New Creation by…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is part of our series on controversial questions. A NO post will normally follow a YES post. Join in by posting your comments.] by Rev. Dr. Robert R. LaRochelle When I think of WAR, declared or undeclared, the following actions and attitudes come to mind: There is something or someone to…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This post is part of our series on controversial questions. A NO post will normally follow a YES post. Join in by posting your comments.] by Elgin Hushbeck Is there a war on Christmas? If “war” is understood in a metaphorical sense as a deliberate effort to diminish and/or change, and Christmas is…
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