On April 2nd, I posted “Letter to writer Stephen Prothero” regarding a March 25 article he wrote for The Wall Street Journal. Below is his recent response, followed by my reply: Prothero: “I am never opposed to correcting myself when I am wrong, but I wrote nothing incorrect here. To begin, I did not write, […]
Archives for April 2011
Can the death of Confederate General ‘Stonewall’ Jackson shed light on the mental nature of health?
Do the expectations and thoughts of the people around a patient influence the patient’s recovery from illness or injury? Marking today’s 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, it seems a good time to consider the tragic death of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in 1863. Reading the account of General Jackson’s death, […]
USA Today makes important distinction between the approach of faith healing and Christian Science
Last week, USA Today published an article by Tom Krattenmaker titled, Even religious freedom has limits. The article makes an important distinction between faith healing and Christian Science. The two are often misinterpreted as being the same and they’re not. Christian Science does not involve pleading with God to heal the sick and then accepting […]
Letter to writer Stephen Prothero
Dear Stephen, I enjoy your writings but I was surprised to read in your March 25 article in the Wall Street Journal, “Thomas Jefferson’s cut-and-paste Bible,” the following passage: “Americans have long been a people of the book. John Winthrop quoted from the Bible in his ‘city on the hill’ sermon in 1630, and American political leaders have […]