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The 100th Birthday Party

By Amy Givler, MD | November 22, 2023
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Permit me to humbly suggest the following: If you are ever invited to a 100th birthday party, consider attending. And if the centenarian is one of your dearly departed mother’s most treasured friends, do whatever you can to attend.

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A Reflection on Friends, Mortality and Eternity

By Autumn Dawn Galbreath, MD, MBA | November 20, 2023
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I was surprised that the death of a celebrity, whom I did not know and was not likely to ever meet, caused such deep reflection. And yet, these kinds of moments in life always seem to do that. It’s as if we forget from day to day that our human bodies are, in fact, mortal and our days here are truly numbered.

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Four New Books Dealing with Transgenderism

By Andrè Van Mol, MD | November 16, 2023
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Publications exposing transgender ideology and its capture of academics, medicine, the entertainment industry, government and the business sector are picking up steam. What we might term the breakout books, those that caught traction and burst onto the public square addressing and countering the whirlwind of transgenderism.

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Who’s Calling Who a Blob?

By James L. Sherley, MD, PhD | November 9, 2023
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Well, there they go again: science reporters are calling human beings “blobs.” Not blobs as in the classic science fiction movie that wreaked havoc and death on unwitting victims. No, they are back to labeling innocent embryo-age human beings as mere “blobs of cells.”

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Tucker Gets It—Abortion is Child-Sacrifice

By JC Bicek | November 6, 2023
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In case you missed it, political commentator Tucker Carlson was speaking at an event hosted by The Center for Christian Virtue back in September in Cleveland, Ohio, where he brought up two key ballot initiatives Ohioans will be voting on in early November.

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Pride Kills

By Steven Willing, MD | October 23, 2023
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Pride deceives us in many ways. One of the more dangerous expressions is to overestimate our competence and skill. In high-risk situations, the consequences can be disastrous. Too often, greed is offered as a simplistic explanation. The truth runs much deeper.

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Childhood Bereavement—Our Response

By Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA (Ethics) | October 5, 2023
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It’s been reported that a total of 8 percent of all children in the United States will experience death of a parent by the time they reach the age of 18 years. If the endpoint of this analysis is 25 years, a total of 14.7 million will experience this tragedy in their lives.

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Not Progressive, Not Conservative, But Christian

By Amy Givler, MD | September 28, 2023
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Whenever I hear the word “polarization,” I can’t help but think of cell division. Specifically? Anaphase, which perhaps you remember from high school biology. All the organelles have been doubled and are bunched at the edges—in moments it will split down the middle and become two cells.

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No Man is an Island

By Autumn Dawn Galbreath, MD, MBA | September 21, 2023
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Have you ever felt like an island? Do you have days when you talk to people all day but, when the day ends, no one knows anything more significant about you than they did when it began?

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AAP calls for “systematic review of evidence,” yet reaffirms 2018 gender-affirming care policy

By Andrè Van Mol, MD | August 28, 2023
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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced on AAP News on August 4, 2023, “AAP reaffirms gender-affirming care policy, authorizes systematic review of evidence to guide update.”

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Victims of the Sexual Revolution, Part 2: The Decline of Happiness, and the Plight of the Young Liberal Woman

By Steven Willing, MD | August 17, 2023
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Increasing levels of depression and other mental illnesses in Western societies have been well-described, but there are many theories as to why. In this installment, we argue that the decline of marriage is the most critical yet overlooked factor, and why the young liberal woman suffers the most.

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Who Do You Believe, and Why?

By Robert E. Cranston, MD, MA (Ethics) | August 10, 2023
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When we are attempting to think rationally in appropriate syllogistic lines, for us to draw accurate conclusions from news items we see on television, in the news and on social media, the information we receive as the input to our process must be accurate, and to a great extent must be complete.

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