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  • How We Got From There to Here0

    The conflict between the rights of the dying and the rights of those treating them is age-old. In the Hippocratic oath, physicians were forbidden to "give a deadly drug to anybody if asked for it, nor make a suggestion to this effect."[1] The issue did not die with the encoding of this prohibition at the

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  • Hear Ye! Hear Ye!0

    The debate over these ten simple words–"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"–has been a relatively recent development. For the first century and a half after the Establishment Clause was written, there were few arguments over it. By the time the furious debates began, all those who either framed the clause or

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  • Blood Oath0

    A few minutes earlier a 32-year-old auto mechanic named Keith Cook left a birthday party "drunk and angry." He tore off in his 1972 pickup, which soon approached the same road where the Russell accident had occurred. Cook's pickup became airborne as it barreled over a hill and, though he hit the brakes, smashed into

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  • Beyond Death with Dignity0

    Dr. Andrew Gotts[0] is a neurologist who practices in Washington State. Among his patients are some who have ALS (a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's disease). During his career he has often had to deal with the complex issues that patients and their families face when ALS progresses to the terminal phase in which the patient's body slowly

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  • Alive and Kicking0

    People who believe there's no prayer in public schools need to talk with 16-year old Jessie Doerrer. For the Bowie, Maryland, high school junior, religion isn't something to be confined to one day a week. Doerrer believes in integrating her Christian beliefs into everyday life–and that includes her time at public school. On school days

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  • Through the Back Door0

    Luther on Church and State Many erroneously believe that Martin Luther approved of or even designed Germany's state-church system. On the contraryhe actually attempted to protect the church from state interference. In the 1520s he developed the "two kingdoms" or "two regiments"2 position. Specifically he divided the functions of church and state according to spiritual

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