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  • Treating Gender Dysphoria with Hormone Treatments Carries Risks

    Treating Gender Dysphoria with Hormone Treatments Carries Risks0

    • February 7, 2018

    Several important new studies on the serious risks to young women for depression and suicide from the use of hormonal contraceptives should be presented to male youth and adults who are considering or who are using hormones in preparation for sexual reassignment surgery. While this risk of depression and suicide has not been proven yet

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  • Treat Others the Way Chick-fil-A Treats You

    Treat Others the Way Chick-fil-A Treats You2

    I sit down on a plush, blue-grey booth seat and admire the freshly cut daisies on the table in front of me. It’s a rainy day in Fort Wayne, Indiana, so the warmth of the spicy crispy chicken sandwich I prepare to sink my teeth into enlivens me. Unthinkingly, I tune in to a conversation

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  • Treasures in the Trash: Signs of Our Abundant Life

    Treasures in the Trash: Signs of Our Abundant Life0

    Here I am visiting with my son, his wife, and their children in Asheville, North Carolina. This morning I was outside enjoying the dawn and the crowing of the roosters when I looked with new eyes at the yellow recycling bins at the edge of their driveway. Soon I was rooting through that bin, pulling

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  • Treading Wisely in Semantic Quicksand

    Treading Wisely in Semantic Quicksand16

    Be careful little mouth what you say. While this pithy little line originally formed part of a children’s song, it strikes me as increasingly wise counsel for adults navigating a dictionary full of fast-changing meanings. To be sure, the meaning of words has always been changing. Awful no longer means something deserving of awe or

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  • Traveling Backwards: Reparations and the Complications of History

    Traveling Backwards: Reparations and the Complications of History2

    Before the Civil War, several of my ancestors in Western Pennsylvania were staunch abolitionists. They participated in the Underground Railroad, helping escaped slaves from the South make the journey to freedom. During the War itself, several of these same ancestors, fought in that conflict. At least two of them died, along with several hundred thousand

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  • Travel in the Time of Corona

    Travel in the Time of Corona1

    It is Friday morning, March 13th, the first day of President Trump’s ban on most Europeans’ travel to the United States. Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport is notably less busy than usual. The local news station reports the current tally at 9 a.m. Corona infections have reached 130,000 and caused 5,000 deaths in 114 countries thus

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