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May 15, 2009: Faith Healing Court Cases
More than 30 states have laws that protect parents who believe in spiritual healing from criminal prosecution when their children die as a result of not receiving medical care for treatable illnesses.
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March 6, 2009: Familial DNA Testing
Some say that without safeguards it is a slippery slope on the road to genetic surveillance. Others are convinced it will bring many more criminals to justice.
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March 6, 2009: Lourdes 150th Anniversary
In most of the world, the poor and sick are ignored. In Lourdes, they are number one, and people say they are drawn there because they believe it is a place of great faith.
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February 27, 2009: Forrest Church Profile
My lifelong belief is that love and death interwoven are the heartstrings of religion. The greatest of all truths is that love never dies. The opposite of love is not death. It is fear.
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February 27, 2009: Forrest Church Interview
One of the beautiful things about a terminal illness is you are invited into the present, and your friendships become stronger. Your loved ones become more vital and more present. Each day becomes more beautiful. You walk through the valley of the shadow, and it’s riddled with light.
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January 23, 2009: End of Life Dilemmas
One-third of Alzheimer's patients in nursing homes have feedings tubes. Their use in people who are in the final stages of dementia is a controversial and emotional ethical issue.
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December 5, 2008: Indiana Doctor in Kenya
Do you want to reconstitute immune systems or do you want to reconstitute lives? We decided to go after lives. We're taking care of the poorest of the poor.
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November 28, 2008: HIV Ministry
Kathi Winter is a busy executive in the travel industry, but every three hours she stops to pop a pill. Winter takes a lot of pills everyday. She's HIV positive, and her "cocktail" of meds keeps AIDS at bay.
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November 28, 2008: World Hunger and U.S. Aid
As President-elect Barack Obama put his economic team together this week, there were more signs of the magnitude of the financial crisis across the globe.
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August 15, 2008: Hasten Slowly
Sermon excerpted and adapted from remarks by Dennis McCullough, M.D. at an interfaith service, Kendal at Hanover, April 15, 2007.
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