The Humanist Manifesto II called for the legalization of “the right to die with dignity, including euthanasia and the right to suicide.” It bore some well-known signatories, including B. F. Skinner, Corliss Lamont, Betty Friedan, Gunnar Myrdal, and Julian Huxley. Can Christians endorse these “rights”? They need to know what Scripture has to say in this area. Be sure to read the two articles in this issue on death, one on mercy killing and the other on the bereaved, and the lead book review, which evaluates eight recent books on death. And then do something to make it possible for people to “die with dignity” without resorting either to suicide or mercy killing, both of which are foreign to biblical revelation.
While we pray for peace, we need moral clarity about this war.
We’ve got little information on Jesus’ appearance and personality. But that’s the way God designed it.españolFrançais
C.S. Lewis recommended discernment over diatribes in exactly the moments we’re most eager to indulge in critique.
