Friday, October 7, 2011

Drawing squiggly lines

BFL recently published a new edition of Life Matters: Blurring the Lines, Shortening the Playing Field on efforts to redefine life and death. For your interest, here are some additional readings on the subject:
The first 14 days of human life Science has not solved every mystery of early human development. But human embryology has advanced sufficiently to enable us to dismiss certain fallacies about when a new human life comes to be.

On Marriage: Jane Eyre Contra Robertson Robertson would advise Rochester to divorce Bertha Mason and start over with Jane, but that would begin a new set of vows with an escape clause. It would cheapen love by refusing its absolute demands. 
The fight over death in organ transplantation The United Network for Organ Sharing has proposed loosening certain standards and protocols for the retrieval of organs for transplantation. The group plans to get rid of the two-minute wait time for removing organs after a person’s heart stops beating, and the explicit ban on evaluating someone as a potential organ donor before his family has made the decision to stop efforts to save him. The two-minute rule used to be the “five-minute rule,” set by the National Academy of Sciences in 1997. 
What is a gay Christian? For some people, this term will appear immediately to be an oxymoron. For others, it represents a view of Christian morality that has moved beyond the heterosexual norm of Scripture to embrace all manner of sexual expressions.

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