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Ethics and Religion Talk: Doctors and Death
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 12-05-2022 under OPINION
Should surgeons, cancer doctors or other high-risk medical specialists be tested and evaluated on how well they deliver bad news? How important is it that they be equipped with the skills to help their patients plan for death? Might it be a better...
Ethics and Religion Talk: How to Counsel a Person Seeking Death, part 2
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 02-01-2021 under OPINION
We began addressing this topic in last week’s column. Here are three additional responses. Linda Knieriemen, Senior Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Holland, responds: “My counsel varies with the particular circumstance. It’s...
Ethics and Religion Talk: How to Counsel a Person Seeking Death, part 1
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 01-25-2021 under OPINION
Father Kevin Niehoff, O.P., a Dominican priest who serves as Judicial Vicar, Diocese of Grand Rapids, responds: “This question is complex. What is not known is if the author is referring to euthanasia or the decision to ‘discontinue...
Ethics and Religion Talk: Where does Mortality Come From?
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 03-16-2020 under OPINION
Fred Stella, the Pracharak (Outreach Minister) for the West Michigan Hindu Temple, responds: The sacred Hindu writ, the Vedas, say that when the Primal Unique (God) expanded from transcendence into the spacial-temporal universe. It produced ‘...
Ethics and Religion Talk: What Do You Think of Hospice?
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 04-08-2019 under OPINION
I received a question recently by email. Upon thanking the sender, I received an auto-response that the owner of the email had died … five years ago! I wish the story had ended here, mystery unsolved, so I could imagine that this column has...
Ethics and Religion Talk - Afraid of Death
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 04-01-2019 under OPINION
A question submitted to an interfaith panel on approaches to hospice care: If we believe in heaven, why are we so afraid of dying? The Reverend Colleen Squires, minister at All Souls Community Church of West Michigan, a Unitarian Universalist...
Ethics and Religion Talk: Is There a Stigma about Dying?, part 2
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 03-11-2019 under OPINION
Two weeks ago, I shared the Christian responses. This week, I’m sharing the Jewish, Hindu, Islamic, and Unitarian responses. The Reverend Colleen Squires, minister at All Souls Community Church of West Michigan, a Unitarian Universalist...
Ethics and Religion Talk: Is There a Stigma about Dying?, part 1
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 02-25-2019 under OPINION
This week, I’ll share the Christian responses. Father Michael Nasser, who writes from an Eastern Christian perspective and is Pastor of St. Nicholas Orthodox Christian Church, responds: “Orthodox Christians do not believe that God...
Ethics and Religion Talk: What Should Your Death Look Like?
by (Rabbi David J.B...)
Submitted 01-28-2019 under OPINION
The Reverend Colleen Squires, minister at All Souls Community Church of West Michigan, a Unitarian Universalist Congregation, responds: “In Unitarian Universalism a person can have a great deal of influence over how their death can occur...
Something for everyone at Dominican Center in July
by (DominicanCenter...)
Submitted 06-24-2014 under NONPROFITS
PARABLES ON FIRE: WHY JESUS TAUGHT ALMOST ENTIRELY USING PARABLES 086-100 Presenter: Joachim Lally, CSP, Paulist Priest, Artist, Musician Day/Date/Time: Tuesday, July 8; 7:00-9:00 p.m.Mark 4:34 states that Jesus in his public ministry only...