Chastity, Sexuality
Q&A on Teens and Chastity
QUESTION: My two children are approaching their teen years. I want to talk with them about chastity, but I made some mistakes when I was their age. Am I being...
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Care Giving, Hospice, Palliative Care
The Hospice Care Option
Mrs. Susan Fink, Volunteer Coordinator at Holy Family Memorial Hospice, Manitowoc, WI “When is he going to get to it? Someone has to talk to Mom about dying!” Such was...
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April 03, 2018
Dementia / Alzheimer's Disease, Other Health Issues, Parenting
The Shepherd Restores a Soul: A Look at Caregiving and Alzheimer’s Disease
Linda Lawrence Editor’s Note: This is the sixth and final installment in a series of articles written by Ms. Linda Lawrence that addresses the challenges and blessings in caring for an...
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May 15, 2018
Bioethics, Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide, Pain Management
Whose Pain Is It Anyway? – A Look at Pain Management
Rev. Robert R. Fleischmann, National Director, Christian Life Resources A while back I attended an ethics seminar in which the speaker said that 50% of pain medication requests come from...
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September 09, 2018
Adoption, Bioethics, Domestic/Foreign, Eugenics, Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide, Homosexuality, Pregnancy, Stem Cell / Cloning
CLR’s Official Positions and Thoughts to Ponder on Life and Family Issues
Abortion Human life exists already at conception. It is a gift from God. He also reserves for himself the authority to take human life. Aborting an unborn child for any...
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December 05, 2012
Family Topics
Why Me? Dealing with the Grief of Miscarriage or Stillbirth
Dear God, why me? There are children and babies and pregnant women all around me and now my womb is empty. Why did this have to happen to me?...
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May 03, 2018
Bioethics, Stem Cell / Cloning
The Holy Grail of Medicine – A Look at Ethical Stem Cell Research
By Dr. Robert Balza Jr., Associate Professor of Biology, Wisconsin Lutheran College No one believed him. No one thought Dr. Shinya Yamanaka had managed to do the impossible. The 44-year-old...
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May 14, 2018
Abortion, Birth Control, Church and State, Homosexuality, Reasons
Look at What is Coming
Pastor Robert Fleischmann In 2011 Mariette Buntjens was a patient suffering from metastatic cancer at a Roman Catholic nursing home in Diest, Belgium. Buntjens requested euthanasia but the nursing home...
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May 03, 2018
Immunizations, Parenting
Fact Sheet on Vaccinations
How do immunizations work? Immunizations, or vaccinations/vaccines, increase the body’s own antibodies to a specific illness or disease. The injections contain a small amount of a weakened or inactive form...
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October 19, 2017
Marriage, Parenting
Caregiving: Christian Helping and Coping
When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the...
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March 01, 2017
Bioethics, Homosexuality
Retransforming Transgender Views
By Athanasius P. Hasselbrook “We would pay for her breast removal surgery as a graduation present, she could take testosterone over the summer, and she could go to college as...
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January 08, 2006
Decision-Making, Experimental Treatment, Feeding / Hydration, Resuscitation
Medical Decisions and the Heart
Rev. Robert Fleischmann, National Director, Christian Life Resources No, this is not an article about heart surgery and transplants. Rather, this article addresses the attitude of the heart when making...
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June 02, 2017
Bioethics, Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide, Feeding / Hydration, Medical Directives, Resuscitation
Trained to Live Forever: End-of-Life Resuscitation Orders
People don’t want to talk about dying. In 2015, according to the Funeral and Memorial Information Council, 69% of adults over the age of 40 indicated they would prefer to...
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July 07, 2017
Pregnancy
The Things I Have Learned – A Mom’s Look at the Potential of a Child with Down Syndrome
The things I have learned in the last four years are not written in any book. My son has taught me a world I never would have known without him....
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April 20, 2018
Uncategorized
AI on Our Side
When I speak about artificial intelligence (AI), I suspect I sound alarmist. Some of what I read about AI development is concerning. Yet, I have long felt that technological advancements...
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July 27, 2017
Bioethics, Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide, Suicide
Who Assists with Suicide
By Rev. Robert Fleischmann, National Director of Christian Life Resources The exhausting effort to legalize assisted suicide is like so many other ill-conceived notions of our times. The persuasive forces...
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July 07, 2017
Cancer
Curing Cancer
By Rev. Robert Fleischmann, National Director of Christian Life Resources The simple definition of cancer is an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells within the body. The practical result is pain,...
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August 31, 2018
Bioethics, Ethics, Fertility/Infertility/IVF, Other Health Issues
Fatal Flaw
By Rev. Robert Fleischmann, National Director of Christian Life Resources The tenets of evolution and creation conflict on many points but none as significantly as on the reality of original...
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August 31, 2017
Parenting
The Complexities of Charlie Gard
By Rev. Robert Fleischmann, National Director of Christian Life Resources Background Charlie Gard was born in England on August 4, 2016, to Chris Gard and Connie Yates. A few weeks...
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October 19, 2017
Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide
A Primer on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
QUESTION: What’s the difference between voluntary euthanasia and non-voluntary euthanasia? ANSWER: Voluntary euthanasia involves a competent and stated desire of someone to terminate his or her life. Non-voluntary euthanasia pertains to...
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