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Review of Them before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement

April 16, 2024

Them before Us: Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement, by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning, was written to persuade the reader that “adults need to do hard things so kids don’t have to” (xxix). The rights of the child are often neglected when discussions of marriage, divorce (specifically no-fault divorce), gamete donation, surrogacy, and adoption occur.

Why the Church Needs Bioethics: A Book Review

October 24, 2023

Why the Church Needs Bioethics, edited by John Kilner, is a book designed for overwhelmed church leaders (and written in a way that will be accessible to any Christian) facing the panoply of new technologies in the life sciences and the new choices they enable.

Review of Ethical Approaches to Preaching

February 18, 2022

In Ethical Approaches to Preaching: Choosing the Best Way to Preach About Difficult Issues, John S. McClure creates a guide by which preachers can do precisely what the subtitle of the book states—preach about difficult issues. At the core of his premise is the conviction that ethics and theology are interconnected and not different modes of instruction. McClure states: “No matter how interior or transcendent theological ideas may seem, they always harbor implicit or explicit ideas regarding how we ought to live and behave as Christians” (8). Thus, preachers ought to embrace their craft as both a theological and ethical activity.

Transgenderism, Science, and Scripture: A Book Review

June 3, 2021

Against such claims, Branch states his thesis as follows: “Transgenderism is not a trait like hair or skin color but is in fact an identity rooted in multiple causes and is completely inconsistent with Christian ethics” (p. 4). However, he is also quick to add an important qualification about his approach: “My goal is to join conviction and compassion in an evaluation of transgenderism. Since the vast majority of us have never experienced gender dysphoria, it can be challenging to understand someone’s subjective experience of this condition” (p. 4).

A Review of "Love Thy Body" by Nancy R. Pearcey

June 10, 2019

In her 2018 book, Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality,[1] Christian apologist Nancy R. Pearcey tackles a variety of hot-button ethical issues including abortion, euthanasia, homosexuality, hookup culture, and transgenderism. Chapter by chapter, Pearcey makes the case that Western secularism denigrates the human body by embracing each of these practices, and she defends the holistic realism of Christian ethics in response.

A Review of Christian Bioethics

August 1, 2017

A Review of the Book Faith @ Science: Why Science Needs Faith in the Twenty-First Century

Dignity Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring 2002)

A Review of the Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life

Dignity Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer 2005)

Book Review: Adam Cohen, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

Dignitas Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 2017)

A Review of the Book Body & Soul: Human Nature & the Crisis in Ethics

Dignity Vol. 9, No. 4 (Winter 2003)

Book Review: A House for Happy Mothers

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

No Compromise for Christian Bioethics: A Review of the Book Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity

Dignity Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 2005)

A Review of the Book Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics

Dignity Vol. 9, No. 2 (Summer 2003)

A Review of the Book Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

Dignity Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2003)

A Review of the Book Culture of Death: The Assault of Medical Ethics in America

Dignity Vol. 8, No. 3 (Fall 2002)

A Review of the Book Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions about Genetics

Dignity Vol. 8, No. 2 (Summer 2002)

A Review of the Book Rapture: How Biotech Became the New Religion

Dignity Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter 2004)

A Review of the Book Bioethics for Scientists

Dignity Vol. 9, No. 3 (Fall 2003)

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

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

A Review of the Book Medical Ethics: A Primer for Students

Dignity Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 2004)

Book Review – Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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

A Review of the Book The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy

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

Review of Habits & Holiness: Ethics, Theology, and Biopsychology by Ezra Sullivan

Dignitas Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring 2023)

A Review of the Book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Dignity Vol. 10, No. 2 (Summer 2004)

What it Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics

Dignitas Vol. 30, No. 3 (Fall 2023)

Review of Christianity and Modern Medicine: Foundations for Bioethics

Dignitas Vol. 30, No. 4 (Winter 2023)
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