Are the arguments presented in the current euthanasia debate honest? This is the question put to me by a person who holds a Master’s Degree in philosophy and who is about to graduate as a medical doctor. I asked him to write up what he was thinking, and this is what...
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Elder abuse rings alarm bells in New Zealand
This article by Marcus Roberts (MercatorNet, 29 April) picks up on an NZ Herald article about the 2014 Report on the Positive Ageing Strategy, and highlights the very real risk that a change to NZ's euthanasia laws would bring. According to this article in...
How secularism may actually undermine women’s rights
It has often been said that the answer to bad religion is not no religion but good religion. A religion free society, or one where religion is relegated to only the private sphere (which is the stated goal of many secularists), leads to many problems. In this...
Building a Just Church
I was surprised to learn recently that being poor isn’t defined primarily by how much or little money a person has.
Poverty is about how dysfunctional or broken a person’s matrix of relationships is – with family, government, community, neighbours, those in authority, God.
Is a rate-payer funded $800k salary fair?
John Minto's idea of capping the top council salary at 5 times living wage, or $191k, may or may not be unrealistic. The Mayor is at least partly right in saying the city needs to meet the market in salaries for its senior staff. But the market is not the...
Opinion – Why Pro-life advocates will continue to lose the abortion war
Irish writer John Waters speaks out on why he believes the Pro-live advocates are fighting a losing battle.