Three People You Might Know It is a quarter past three in the morning in a hospital ward. A daughter wants the doctors to try everything to save her elderly father. Her brother insists their father never wanted machines to keep him alive. Neither is trying to be cruel; both are frightened, and both love him. Soon, they must make a decision, and one of them will carry the weight of it forever.

جميع الاقتباسات الكتابية مأخوذة من ترجمة سميث وفانديك، ما لم يُذكر غير ذلك.

All Scripture quotations are from the New International Version (NIV) unless otherwise noted.

A reflection from a Coptic Orthodox Christian perspective

تأمّل من منظور مسيحي قبطي أرثوذكسي

المقال العاشر: الهرطقات الحديثة — أخطاء قديمة في أثواب جديدة

The modern era, from the nineteenth century to today, has brought rapid change: the rise of scientific rationalism following the Enlightenment, new religious movements founded in nineteenth-century America, twentieth-century mass media and globalisation, and a modern world where people of many faiths now live and work side by side more closely than ever before.

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought the Protestant Reformation, beginning with Martin Luther's public challenges to certain Catholic practices in 1517, and spreading rapidly with the help of the newly invented printing press. This period produced deep and lasting divisions within Western Christianity, and it is important to be precise about what this article does and does not address.