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Archive: August 16, 2009 - August 22, 2009
The Fellowship of Ramadan
Ramadan is an annual reminder of just how powerful the human will -- and human fellowship -- can be.
By Pamela K. Taylor | August 21, 2009; 5:38 PM ET | Comments (21)
Health Care Too Great a Good for Caesar
Every Christian longs to see medical care for all of God's children, but not at the cost of loss of liberty, crushing reasonable minority opinions, and giving too much power to the state.
By John Mark Reynolds | August 21, 2009; 12:11 PM ET | Comments (13)
Cheap Evil
The reason the "cheap evil" of references to Nazis is so attractive to those attacking health care reform is that it seems to cost nothing to make these emotional appeals and not have to back them up with any facts.
By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite | August 21, 2009; 10:22 AM ET | Comments (0)
Politics Without Principles?
If a government is unable to take care of the poorest and weakest among their citizenry then that government is not true to its moral obligations.
By Arun Gandhi | August 19, 2009; 3:10 PM ET | Comments (1)
God is Concerned with Life's Trivialities
Not only is the question of health care a moral concern, but the way that we conduct our conversation about it is as well. The bedrock of our country is healthy and vigorous debate over the issues that matter most. And yet it is deeply disturbing to watch respectful debate degenerate into name-calling and accusations.
By Sharon Brous | August 19, 2009; 2:20 PM ET | Comments (3)
Health Care and Goddess-based Morality
In the Goddess tradition, healing is sacred. That means it is an area of life that has a value that cannot simply be measured by profit-and-loss sheets, akin to the value of life itself.
By Starhawk | August 19, 2009; 12:56 PM ET | Comments (41)
Heal the Sick, Jesus Told Us
Jesus didn't exclude those with pre-existing conditions or low income or unemployment.
By Leith Anderson | August 19, 2009; 12:52 PM ET | Comments (5)
Healing America's Sick Soul
The creation of a better health care system that guarantees full access to affordable quality health care for every American family, all of God's children in this country, would be the moral achievement that could repair, and even heal, our damaged national soul.
By Jim Wallis | August 19, 2009; 11:55 AM ET | Comments (69)
God Expects Us to Take Care of Each Other
Study of the scriptures shows God always admonishing the "haves" to take care of the "have-nots."
By Susan K. Smith | August 19, 2009; 11:34 AM ET | Comments (5)
Whose Responsibility is My Health?
Does the U.S. need health care reform? Absolutely. But first our nation needs to reform our definition of health.
By Ramdas Lamb | August 19, 2009; 2:12 AM ET | Comments (2)
Looking for a Higher Authority on Health Care
In the search to make health care affordable and available to all Americans, the theological component should be considered if for no other reason than to raise the topic higher than the limitations necessarily contained by conventional, secular thinking.
By Phil Davis | August 18, 2009; 5:41 PM ET | Comments (0)
Don't Use God to Inflame an Already Overwrought Debate
As a Jew, rooted in a system which is far more concerned with obligations than it is with rights, but always aware of both, I want to see a real conversation about the balance between health care as a human right and the obligations that should be born by all people who get that care.
By Brad Hirschfield | August 18, 2009; 2:49 PM ET | Comments (8)
The Dharma of Health-Care Reform
As a Hindu, I do not subscribe to a Biblical injunction in rendering care to my patients, but I must abide by my dharma, my duty, to help others.
By Aseem Shukla | August 18, 2009; 1:15 PM ET | Comments (3)
Heal the Sick and the System
Justice for the weak, the vulnerable and the stranger in the land is never heard at the anti-reform rallies, where the judgment of God is announced against reform-minded legislators.
By Robert Parham | August 18, 2009; 10:10 AM ET | Comments (4)
Health Care a Priority, not a Product
We generally accept that people with more money can afford more things, and I don't have a problem with this, except when we treat a necessity like quality health care as if it were just a consumer product. I wish all Americans would recognize the need to make health care both a moral and financial priority.
By Herb Silverman | August 18, 2009; 8:12 AM ET | Comments (8)
God is Not in the Details
God no more prescribes the form of health care than God endorses Notre Dame's football team over USC's. Sometimes we have to realize that the intricacies of the decision are with us.
By David Wolpe | August 17, 2009; 5:28 PM ET | Comments (1)
Jesus Healed the Sick
As a Christian, I believe the biblical truth of the matter is that if you don't take care of the sick and the poor, you are rejecting Jesus himself.
By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite | August 17, 2009; 4:17 PM ET | Comments (30)
Health Care: A Moral Imperative For Any Decent American
The truth is that neither liberal secular nor liberal religious forces in our society have stepped up and fought for health care as a moral imperative in a way that has effectively countered the irrational right-wingers, like Sarah Palin.
By Susan Jacoby | August 17, 2009; 1:35 PM ET | Comments (249)
