[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 Chris Eyre Chris has been with Energion Publishing since 1997 and fills a variety of rolls, mostly behind the scenes. Expect to hear more from him in…
[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 The quick and easy answer is a resounding yes. However, many have a distorted view of capitalism and thus will be puzzled by such a…
[Editor’s Note: Not all post will have an opposing response. If you disagree with this one, please make your case in the comments.] by Doris Horton Murdoch Yes, Americans are morally obligated to resettle Syrian refugees. This resettlement assistance of any global group of oppressed persons is a collective international responsibility. According to World Vision,…
[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…
By Dr. Dolly Berthelot “Little Boxes,” a catchy and meaningful song I’ve loved since the 1960s, echoes in my head (yep I’m that old): Little Boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky, little boxes on the hillside, little boxes, all the same.” The focus of Malvina Reynolds’s creation, which Pete Seeger popularized,…
[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…