By Jonathon Van Maren While euthanasia is being presented across North America as “compassionate” and a good way to end suffering by suicide activists, there is something chilling about the intimacy of these killings. As pro-life activist Gregg Cunningham noted, “Ours is the first generation that, having demanded the right to kill its children through…
By Jonathon Van Maren It is strange, the late Charles Krauthammer noted some time ago, that a decade or two after the idea of socialism was bankrupted and abandoned by all but a few intellectuals holed up in their airtight ivory towers, socialism’s popularity should rise so suddenly and so meteorically. Indeed, the upstart Vermont…
By Jonathon Van Maren So it seems that suicide is now a medical service, and the debate in Canada has come and gone with barely a whisper. With the exception of a few newspaper columnists fretting here or there, the debate seems to have subsided before it really began. Those who oppose euthanasia and physician-assisted…
By Jonathon Van Maren Ideas have consequences. We used to understand this. Examples of the truth of this are everywhere. Once we accepted the premise that the pre-born child in the womb is of no value, then we saw wide-spread slaughter, regardless of whether those legislating this premise intended abortion to be “safe, legal, and…
By Jonathon Van Maren Feminism rebelled against reality. Transgenderism seeks to abolish it entirely. But the feminists and the gender ideologues are beginning to realize that their worldviews don’t line up very nicely. It seems as if our culture doesn’t quite understand just how radical the transgender fad actually is—or how genuinely insulting it is…
By Jonathon Van Maren Note: I wrote this profile for LifeCanada’s magazine, and it appeared in their last issue. Devorah Gilman first heard about abortion when she was three or four years old. “I thought it sounded like something the ancient Romans did and dismissed it as a horrible thing that probably didn’t happen much…
By Jonathon Van Maren Since 1977, abortion has been legal in the State of Israel under a set of supposedly strict conditions, and each abortion must be approved by a ghoulishly-named “termination committee.” According to the guidelines, an abortion can be procured if the woman is younger than the legal marriage age (which is 18…
By Jonathon Van Maren Two centuries ago in the little Austrian town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, a thirty-one-year-old primary school teacher and church organist composed the music to a set of lyrics written two years before in 1816 by a Catholic priest. Franz Gruber did not know it, but in doing so he became the…
By Jonathon Van Maren December 24, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Nobody knows where Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman recently released from years on death row for “blaspheming” the Muslim religion, will spend Christmas. Her spokesman said only that it will be in a closed room in protective custody, to keep her safe from the mobs in Pakistan…
By Jonathon Van Maren A few years back, before we were married, my wife worked in the catering business. As the Advent season began, one of her colleagues asked her a question that floored her: “What is Christmas all about?” As it turned out, her colleague had never heard the Christmas story before. She’d never…