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Failing Faithfully: Created, Fallen, and Waiting

July 3, 2015 by David 1 Comment

If medicine is about the alleviation of suffering and the postponement of death, is not all of our work ultimately futile? In a society that idolizes success and hides the dying and dead away from full view, what message can physicians give?

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Faithful is Successful, healthcare, interviews, medicine

Failing Faithfully: The Futility of Medicine (Scholar’s Compass)

March 10, 2015 by David No Comments

It was stunning news. I listened with disbelief as my colleague described how a patient of ours, in whom we had uncovered a host of serious diseases over a few years, was now newly diagnosed with cancer after an incidental scan.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: Christian Health Care Provider, Faithful is Successful, healthcare, medicine, Scholar's Compass

Death and Resurrection

April 18, 2014 by David 1 Comment

He was a young man, and I could see fear in his eyes as he gripped the railings of the bed and struggled to breathe, sucking in heavily through the plastic mask feeding him oxygen. His body was wasting away from cancer, and the infections that had crept into his lungs were now forcing every […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Devotional Tagged With: Christ hymn, death, Death be not proud, easter, good friday, healthcare, Holy Week, humility, John Donne, medicine, Philippians 2:1-11, resurrection

Reasons: Why I am a Christian Part 2

April 5, 2014 by David 1 Comment

Every year, the translator at our pediatric hospital asks this question: What are the four hardest words to translate? He will pause for a moment and then say, Your child is dead. Every time I hear it, I wonder how many times he has had to say that phrase. Every year, I think the tally […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Health Care, Science and Faith Tagged With: christian, death, faith, God, goodness of God, grief, healthcare, injury, loss, reason, Reasons: Why I am a Christian, salvation, science, sickness, Suffering

Reasons: Why I am a Christian

March 29, 2014 by David No Comments

“How can you believe in God and science at the same time?”   Even though I am rarely asked this question so plainly, it is often implied in conversation.  Many atheistic advocates think that there is a conflict between the two. They may suspect that a belief in the supernatural is used primarily to explain […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Health Care, Science and Faith Tagged With: christian, epistemology, faith, healthcare, reason, Reasons: Why I am a Christian, science, sickness, Suffering

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