Tag: Social Issues

My parents raised my brother and me to be careful of our words. We weren't allowed to say demeaning things about (or to) other people.

I am a golfer; of course I swear. I know only one golfer who doesn’t.

No, because the Bible says that as a born-again Christian, I am a new creation. "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!," 2 Corinthians 5:17.

I have reclassified this group of words, however.

What do a gang rape and murder on the other side of the planet, a police investigation on prostitution at Spokane “health spas” and Lena Dunham’s Emmy outfit have in common?
Other than that they’re contributing to my current heartburn situation: What they have in common is that our, and my, reaction to all these stories is rooted in shame and fear. Shame and fear muddle the difference between what we should see as sexual perversion — non-consentual sex — and what we often regard as such: sexual decisions by others that make us feel uncomfortable.

This week we published a short story about physician-assisted suicide and the moral debates that surround the issue. Friends of Compassion discussed the topic at its monthly meeting on Wednesday and shared many questions and reflections. Do you wrestle with this topic? We’re like to hear from you.

Four decades after Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, many opponents of the decision are in a celebratory mood while those backing abortion rights are glum, feeling that momentum is turning decisively against them.

Yet in reality, little has changed in the fiercest and most protracted battle of the nation’s bitter culture war.