Dying Live: An Experiment

“See a Person Dying Live On Your Computer,” the Web promotion read. An estimated 20,000 people logged onto the Web site to see a man dying–live, as advertised–on March 27. What viewers saw was an image of magician Jim Callahan simply sitting...

King: Commercializing or Communicating?

Martin Luther King Jr. is center stage again, this time in a commercial for a communications network company. Alcatel Americas paid the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change an undisclosed sum for the rights to use King’s “I Have a...

Parents Find Guiding Source for Rearing Children

In the past, whenever people have asked me for a helpful resource that might give them some guidance as parents, I have suggested a wide variety of books, videos, conferences, web sites, etc. These are not easy days to parent children. As a pastor, one concern I hear...

Moral Arguments on Cloning

Ethics and science are at ground zero of human cloning. Earlier this year, an ethicist and scientist examined three moral arguments related to human cloning in a column on the MSNBC Web site. The ethicist is Glenn McGee, editor of The Human Cloning Debate. He is also...