by Tarris D. Rosell | Jul 12, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Feb. 26, 2007. At the time of publication, Rosell was a program associate with the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, Missouri, and associate professor teaching ethics at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in...
by Tarris D. Rosell | Nov 24, 2009 | Opinion
On Nov. 17, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops voted 219-4 “to strengthen its requirement that Roman Catholic hospitals insert and maintain nutrition and hydration tubes for patients in persistent vegetative states.” A journalist for Modern Healthcare...
by Tarris D. Rosell | Feb 26, 2007 | Opinion
Jesus said that everything normative, all of Christian ethics, hangs on just two rules: Love God, and love your neighbor (Matthew 22:37-40). St. John wrote, in plain and simple Greek, that we can not fulfill the first without having done the second. One who does not...
by Tarris D. Rosell | Aug 9, 2006 | Opinion
As a student and teacher of ethics, I am interested not only in what humans do but also in how we talk about what we do. That includes the words we use, or oftentimes misuse. I hope not to misuse language in the ruminations that follow. Recently I have been intrigued...
by Tarris D. Rosell | Jun 12, 2006 | Opinion
It might happen next flu season, or the following, or five years from now. Sometime soon, almost inevitably say the experts, a deadly flu virus will ravage the earth and its human inhabitants. Vaccine and antiviral stockpiles will cover, at best, 20 percent of the...
