Religion Dispatches
Opponents of health care reform have raised the specter of Terri Schiavo to mobilize “pro-life” activists and the elderly, but what they forget is that this case was a powerful instance of an unpopular government intervention in a family matter. They can’t have it both ways.
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The Propaganda campaign against health care reform reaches a new low.
Read MorePolitics at this level is a blood sport, not a seminar, and the president seems a bit behind on his combat training.
Read MoreA surgeon explains how traditional Navajo healing modalities can inform medical practice.
Read MoreBy slipping into religious language, and evoking “conscience clause” exemptions, it’s becoming clear that this underground movement is readying itself for the mainstream.
Read MoreNow is not the time to hedge bets. The Obama administration ought to be pressing its advantages and racking up some victories.
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Hospital chaplains provide spiritual care to the sick and dying, and they tend to both patients and their families. While their voices are not often heard in the larger conversation about religion and medicine, this is slowly changing.
Read MoreTop Ten Religious Right groups rake in more than half-a-billion dollars; Churches v. Christian Zionism; Bush turns to faith-based groups to bail US out of health care crisis; Saving the GOP from itself?
Read MoreTom Daschle, a pro-choice and pro-stem cell Catholic, will serve as Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. Though attacked in the past, he has a history of keeping church and state separate.
Read MoreThe Religious Right attacks Obama’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services as a “pro-life nightmare.”
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