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The Church and Cancer: How the Church Can Support Young Adults with Cancer and Their Caregivers

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

What can the church do to support this growing sub-population of younger people with cancer and their caregivers? My husband, my pastor, and I have all provided some ideas based on our experience with cancer.

The Burdens and Privileges of Caregiving

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

After surviving the treatment and obliterating the leukemia, Ken and I now find ourselves looking around after the storm and feeling like we were blown over a cliff and now are in a strange land with unexpected realities and seeming absurdities.

Caring for the Caregivers

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Medical professionals find themselves trapped in work environments that demand consistent professional postures, service-oriented thinking, secular opinions, and the expectation of being the expert on any given health issue. When they cannot help the ill, they carry that home. It doesn’t go away so quickly. What is a clinician to do when this weight simply becomes too much? Who cares for the caregivers?

The Hope and Hype of Medicine and Technology

Monday, November 28, 2016

[T]he progress that has been made, combined with this hype of decontextualized and often exaggerated claims by the media, continue to fuel the hope of medicine and technology: “If we could only accomplish a little more . . . .” But more is never enough. And hope, commingled with the fear of death (Heb 2:15), can fuel an attitude of “taking and keeping” (the “agency”), one that grasps at and clings to the technological hope of immortality. From here one can easily (and subtly) fall prey to worshipping technology and progress as gods.

Towards a Christian Perspective on Gender Dysphoria

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

What are we to make of the claims that a person’s gender identity conflicts with his or her body? Should someone undergo gender-reassignment surgery to match one’s sense of identity, or should it be the other way around? Answers to such questions will depend fundamentally on our understanding of what it means to be a human being, an understanding that derives its intelligibility from the larger story (or metanarrative) in which it is situated. For Christians, this metanarrative is informed by Scripture, which attests to the creative, redemptive, and restorative activity of God as revealed in Christ Jesus.

Reawakening Medicine’s Twentieth Century Demons?

Friday, October 30, 2020

Throughout the last century, the spirit of the age exhibited a voracious appetite for human life. Medicine became the source for myriad racial enmities and immoral projects catalyzed by ascendant science and reckless medical research that was completely oblivious to the dignity of human life. The contingent bioethical lapses reflected the impact of social Darwinism on an age of physicians who primarily acted as scientists, not healers.

The Need of Compassionate Strangers

Dignity Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 1998)

The Need for Compassionate Strangers

Dignity Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 1998)

Two Perspectives on Total/Terminal/Palliative Sedation

Dignity Vol. 7, No. 2 (Summer 2001)

Successful Aging: Living the End of Life to the Glory of God

Dignity Vol. 7, No. 4 (Winter 2001)

In My Time of Dying: Ethical Considerations in End of Life Care for Individuals with a Substance Use Disorder

Dignitas Vol. 29, No. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2022)

Clinical Ethics Consultation and the Myth of Secular Space

Dignitas Vol. 29, No. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2022)

Alleviating Suffering

Dignity Vol. 8, No. 4 (Winter 2002)

A Review of the Book Jesus, M.D.: A Doctor Examines the Great Physician

Dignity Vol. 10, No. 3 (Fall 2004)

Benchmarking Bedside Manner in Medical Education Primary tabs

Dignity Vol. 10, No. 3 (Fall 2004)

Neuroethics: The New Frontier Conference Report

Dignitas Vol. 12, No. 2 (Summer 2006)

In Search of a New Paradigm: Healthcare and the Common Good

Dignitas Vol. 13, No. 2-3 (Summer/Fall 2007)

When I Was Hungry, You Gave Me to Eat: The Dignity of Hand Feeding in Persons with Dementia

Dignitas Vol. 16, No. 3 (Fall 2009)

From the Director's Desk (Winter 2013)

Dignitas Vol. 20, No. 4 (Winter 2013)

Transitions in Women's Healthcare: The Impact of the New Population Paradigm

Dignitas Vol. 22, No, 1 (Spring 2015)

Practicing Medicine and Ethics

Dignitas Vol. 22, No. 4 (Winter 2015)

POLST and Patient-Centered Care: A Commentary on Grant and Anderson-Shaw

Dignitas Vol. 22, No. 4 Supplement (Winter 2015)

To POLST or Not to POLST

Dignitas Vol. 22, No. 4 Supplement (Winter 2015)

The POLST Paradigm: Assessing Its Utility and Ethos

Dignitas Vol. 22, No. 4 Supplement (Winter 2015)

Introduction - Examining POLST

Dignitas Vol. 22, No. 4 Supplement (Winter 2015)

Metaphors in Medicine: Toward Transformation in Care

Dignitas Vol. 23, No. 3 (Fall 2016)

Commentary: Uncertainty in the Art and Science of Medicine and Biotechnology

Dignitas Vol. 24, No. 3 (Fall 2017)

Futility Recast: Do New Consensus Statements Resolve the Old Debate?

Dignitas Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter 2017)

Editorial - Fall 2018

Dignitas Vol. 25, No. 3 (Fall 2018)

Healthcare Ethics Consultation and Conflict Resolution: Faith, Love, Feelings

Dignitas Vol. 26, No. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2019)