Currently Reading

I don't know about how you read, but I pick up a book and begin reading, then a day later I pick up another one, and on and on.  Some where down the road I get to feeling  I haven't finished anything and that is when I really "get serious" and finish all those titles I haven't yet completed.  I am currently in the middle of those string of events, but I know I will finish the current one in short order.  Eric Cohen's In the Shadow of Progress:  Being Human in the Age of Technology  is so captivating that I cannot put it down.  I have read maybe three fourths of it and want to commend it to you all.  With what is happening in the world today, it is a must read for all of you who are concerned with our culture.  He does a wonderful job explaining the philosophical underpinnings of biotechnology, it's ramifications, and the questions we all should be asking ourselves.  It is not technical at all, and deals with the big picture. 

He begins with a short concise history of where, during the Enlightenment, we lost our way, and how it plays out in our culture currently.  He then goes into several chapters on the specifics; Bio-ethics in Wartime, The Embryo Question, The Commerce of the Body, and A Jewish-Catholic Bioethics?  The last two chapters (I always read ahead) deal with where these ideas play the most part for us everyday people.  They are worth the whole book; Why Have Children? and In Whose Image Shall We Die?  He speaks of the redeeming nature of Christ with the eloquence of a saint. I really thought He was going to say that He was a completed Jew.  We as believers will more and more link hand in hand with anyone who has a Judeo-Christian Worldview in the coming years.

It is only 159 pages, but it is jam packed to the brim with wisdom for those who wish to speak to a postmodern culture.

ERIC COHEN is the founding editor of The New Atlantis and a longtime advisor to the President’s Council onf Bioethics. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, USA Today, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, and First Things. Mr. Cohen is also a regular commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer News Hour, Charlie Rose, and All Things Considered.

Keep reading till He Comes.....................Lynn