MAiD
Pastor Daniel Holstege addresses the urgent pastoral and theological challenge of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada, examining how this rapidly expanding practice reflects deepening secularization and despair in society. The article calls Reformed pastors to be prepared with biblical responses that point suffering and despairing people to the comfort found only in Jesus Christ, while discussing resources like Ewan Golighers's work to help congregations understand this critical contemporary issue.
Canada is further along in secularization than the United States. I recently read and discussed with a group of Reformed pastors a book by Ewan Goligher, a Christian professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, entitled How Should We Then Die? A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death. Without endorsing everything he writes, I recommend this book if you are interested in understanding more about the topic. This is a hot topic in Canada right now. Medical Assistance in Dying...
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