Winter Missions Breakfast
Please set aside the date and sign up now for our Winter Missions Breakfast coming up on Saturday, January 24th, from 9-11 am at the Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. We’re going to have a smorgasbord of local speakers (including 3 URMC residents, a nurse, and a faculty pharmacologist) who’ll be talking about missions experiences and opportunities from El Salvador to Honduras, by way of Jordan and India, so don’t miss this one!Please mark your calendars and RSVP using our Response page. Be sure to note location (click here for Directions to the Academy of...
Read MoreGlory to God in the Highest!
Merry Christmas from the Morehouses!We deeply appreciate all your support and look forward to serving together with you in the coming year.Click here to read our holiday letter.
Read MoreCMDA Winter Conference
Greetings from CMDA’s Northeast Office! I hope this note finds you well! I am writing to remind you about the 2009 Winter Conference sponsored by CMDA’s Northeast Region and Medical Campus Outreach of Philadelphia. This annual conference brings together followers of Christ in healthcare from across the northeast to explore what it means for a person to re-integrate who they are as a person of faith and a healthcare professional. This is a great opportunity to hear good teaching from a respected colleague who will present stories from his own life and practice experiences, sharing how one can...
Read MoreView from Stanford
A young medical student at Stanford University stood before the table of RZIM [Ravi Zacharias International Ministries] books and resources beaming. “We don’t see these things very often,” he said, clarifying, “Not books; there’s no shortage of books. I mean Christianity without the hostility.” He proceeded to describe students and friends who deride the possibility of possessing both faith and intellect, medical professors who actually apologize when the language of design inadvertently slips into lectures on the body, and the isolation that comes from trying to stand in the shadows of this...
Read MoreA thought experiment
Our perfectly designed US healthcare systemThe interregnum between a presidential election and the inauguration is a time of feverish activity, in which the president elect and his staff decide who will help them govern and what they will try to do first. The press and pundits speculate breathlessly on who will be appointed and what they will do first. As I write this, for example, we have just learnt that the new administration’s secretary of health and human services is likely to be a respected former US senator, Tom Daschle. He has written a book about healthcare reform, which is likely...
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