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2013-11-22T13:26:24-08:00

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A Healthcare Conundrum? Hip Replacements for the Terminally Ill

Last updated on: November 22, 2013 at 1:26 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

What do you do? You are a healthcare administrator and you have to make a decision. You have a patient with terminal cancer who needs a hip replacement. While the hip replacement would increase mobility, the operation would cost untold thousands of dollars. There is also the fear of complications that can result for patients with terminal illnesses. Here’s what one study said about a few of the challenges, Advanced cancer, severe cardiac and pulmonary disease, and other disorders that threaten overall survival have long been... Read more

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2013-11-22T13:24:39-08:00

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The Voting Rights Act and Post-Racialized America—Can We Vote on That?

Last updated on: November 22, 2013 at 1:24 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

By Paul Louis Metzger and Tom Krattenmaker Why is it that while talk abounds of growing racial diversity in our country, a new wave of voting restrictions is sweeping over parts of the country and falling hardest on minorities? Perhaps there is more than coincidence at play. The Supreme Court’s reframing of the Voting Rights Act to make the individual states responsible for overseeing voting procedures has led many to fear the return of Jim Crow era policies to the country’s polling... Read more

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2013-11-22T13:24:02-08:00

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Beyond Obamacare vs. the Affordable Care Act: Caring for Healthcare Complexities

Last updated on: November 22, 2013 at 1:24 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

Jimmy Kimmel recently aired interviews of people who were asked which they preferred and why—Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act. Person after person interviewed and taped preferred Affordable Care Act. As you probably know, the interviews were coordinated to expose people’s ignorance: Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act are one and the same. One person interviewed whose ignorance is exposed responds in the affirmative to the question about whether or not a well-informed public is essential to our democracy’s vitality.... Read more

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2013-11-22T13:23:25-08:00

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The Emperor’s Subjects Have No Clothes

Last updated on: November 22, 2013 at 1:23 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

Have you read Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, “The Emperor Has No Clothes”? It’s the story of an emperor who loves strutting about in glorious apparel. One day two swindlers come to town and deceive the emperor and his advisors into believing that the two of them can make the most splendid clothes for the emperor from the finest material. However, the thread and cloth is so fine and refined that only those who are sophisticated and wise and those befitting... Read more

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2013-11-22T13:16:55-08:00

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The Court of Law and the Court of Public Opinion: Before Baby Veronica and Beyond

Last updated on: November 22, 2013 at 1:16 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

Much has been made this week of the Supreme Court’s decision that the Indian Child Welfare Act did not apply in the case of Baby Veronica. South Carolina later reversed its earlier decision and returned Veronica to her adopted parents, removing her from her birth father. The Supreme Court’s decision is a cause of concern for many in Native communities, not simply Veronica’s Cherokee birth family, in terms of what it may signify for the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). What is the Indian Child Welfare Act? North American... Read more

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2013-11-22T13:16:04-08:00

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Patch Adams–Patching Up Health Care Across the Board

Last updated on: November 22, 2013 at 1:16 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

The movie Patch Adams addresses the subject of health care in a holistic manner. The movie is about the story of Hunter D. “Patch” Adams, whose Gesundheit! Institute “is a project in holistic medical care based on the belief that one cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the family, the community, the world, and the health care system itself.” This statement on the complex connection betwen the health care system and various other forms of health comes through... Read more

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2013-11-22T13:15:04-08:00

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The Most Dangerous Force in the World

Last updated on: November 22, 2013 at 1:15 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

The most dangerous force in the world is not Al Qaida, nor some Special Ops force, but the church that truly knows it is loved by God. The gates of hell will not prevail against such a church. The movie To End All Wars is a moving tale of how Christian love conquers hate inside a prisoner of war camp during WWII. It is one of the most powerful movies I have ever seen. More powerful than such a movie, though, is... Read more

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2013-11-22T13:13:32-08:00

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Stamping Out Food Stamps and Trampling on the Poor

Last updated on: November 22, 2013 at 1:13 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

How many decision makers passing the bill to cut $40 billion from food stamps over the next decade actually know someone on food stamps? Debate rages in Washington among lawmakers on whether or not the bill would impact only those trying to milk the system. I know people on food stamps—hard-working people, people in difficult situations, people who need food stamps to survive. They are fearful that they will not be able to obtain basic food necessities to stay afloat in... Read more

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2013-11-22T13:12:39-08:00

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The Divine Trinity: Beyond Monads, Irrelevant Mysteries and Scrambled Eggs

Last updated on: November 22, 2013 at 1:12 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

What difference does the Trinity make for Christian thought and life? While opinions vary, I share Lesslie Newbigin’s conviction that when many Christians think of God, they don’t call to mind the Father, Son, and Spirit, but the great divine monad. Newbigin maintains that Greek philosophy and Islamic thought have combined to shape the Christian imagination since the High Middle Ages, replacing the Trinitarian perspectives of the fathers of the first four centuries of Christian history.[1] Newbigin is not alone... Read more

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2013-11-22T13:11:21-08:00

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You Don’t Have to Be in Make-Up to Be a Clown

Last updated on: November 22, 2013 at 1:11 pm By Paul Louis Metzger

A professional clown informed a group of amateurs such as myself that “You don’t have to be in make-up” to fulfill the calling of a clown. She was talking about our calling as Christians to make ourselves vulnerable. The clown in question, Trudi Sang, is chair of The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins‘ student community. Trudi was giving a talk to us on the New Wine, New Wineskins community formation retreat on how to be Christian leaders. She was drawing from... Read more

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