Apr 1, 2016 | Ethics
Where are the mourners for the Jews? When we close our eyes to terrorists in Israel, we give implicit approval for their barbaric tactics elsewhere. I opened the [Canadian] National Post on Monday morning and read these words from Harriet Alida Lye, a...
Apr 1, 2016 | Ethics
In 2011 George Jonas wrote in the National Post, “Don’t let Western civilization—the best and most humane form of civilization developed by mankind—perish by default.” I saved that quote. And today it is one of the most important...
Apr 1, 2016 | Ethics
My partner’s son and wife just gave birth to a beautiful little boy. And I mean little! He is 3 pounds. And two months too early. It seems the mommy’s womb was not a big enough room for their little fellow. He had to move. The parents knew early on that...
Apr 1, 2016 | Ethics
The recently released “Report on Antisemitic Activity in 2015 at US Colleges and Universities With the Largest Jewish Undergraduate Populations” is the “first empirical study of its kind,” showing that “the primary agents of anti-Semitic...
Mar 9, 2016 | Ethics
Bob Schieffer, of CBS News, once lamented on the condition of the world. It’s gone mad, he said. Then he quoted Will Durant. “Barbarism, like the jungle, does not die out, but only retreats behind the barriers that civilization has thrown up against it, and...
Mar 9, 2016 | Ethics
Jonathan Kay wrote an excellent article about the assault on Christian ethics in schools in 2013. The discussion continues. We call ourselves open and tolerant and inclusive-except we are not open to the teachings of Jesus. We have schools that reach out to Natives...
