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Health as harmony
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Rod Dreher
More from that Krista Tippett interview with Dr. Sherwin Nuland I blogged about yesterday — an excerpt from a Nuland book: Always, the purpose of treatment is only to restore nature’s balance against disease. There is no recovery unless it comes from the force and fiber of one’s own tissues. The physician’s role is to…
Snowbound with children
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Rod Dreher
“If Darth Vader got into a fight with Caillou, who would win?” These and other pertinent questions being pondered here at our place on this snow day. Blizzard bearing down on us — the third major snowstorm this year, and the fourth of the winter — and I’m at home with three small children. Mom…
God and foreign policy
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Rod Dreher
New study finds that American foreign policy is handicapped by a “God gap,” an inability of the U.S. foreign policy establishment to fully appreciate the role of religion in human affairs. Excerpt from the Washington Post report: “It’s a hot topic,” said Chris Seiple, president of the Institute for Global Engagement in Arlington County and…
Toxins and autism
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Rod Dreher
Nicholas Kristof reports growing evidence that there is a connection: Concern about toxins in the environment used to be a fringe view. But alarm has moved into the medical mainstream. Toxicologists, endocrinologists and oncologists seem to be the most concerned. One uncertainty is to what extent the reported increases in autism simply reflect a more…
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