S4 20: Suffering, Death, and Radical Human Dignity With Margaret Cottle

Human dignity doesn’t end when suffering begins—but today more than ever our culture peddles the lie that it’s better to choose death than to suffer. Jesus has something better for us. Christ calls us to love every image bearer with His committed, sacrificial, persevering, and selfless love—even when those we care for can contribute absolutely nothing. As a palliative care doctor of over 30 years, Dr. Margaret Cottle has both witnessed and practiced this Christlike love that dignifies every human being from beginning to end. She shares how Christ transforms our experience of suffering, grief, death, and sacrificial love. Listen to be encouraged and inspired by the robust, Christian understanding of human dignity and the glorious responsibility we have to humbly give and receive care.    Dr. Cottle’s Website https://welcomeandwonder.com/  Euthanasia in Canada: a Cautionary Tale by Margaret Cottle, Catherine Ferrier, Sheila Rutledge Harding, Timothy Lau, Terence McQuiston, John Scott, and Leonie Herx in World Medical Journal Oct. 2018  The Normalization of Euthanasia in Canada, the Cautionary Tale Continues, by Dr. Margaret Cottle, Dr. John Scott, and Dr. Leonie Herx, World Medical Journal Nr. 2, April 2020 vol. 66  Sharing the Darkness: The Spirituality of Caring by Dr. Sheila Cassidy  Knowing God by Dr. J.I. Packer  The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis  With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial by Kathryn Mannix   Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, Book 1) by Elizabeth Peters  A Quiet Life in the Country (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery Book 1) by T. E. Kinsey   Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering by Timothy Keller  Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song by Bruce Hindmarsh and Craig Borlase   Ars Moriendi, the Art of Dying Well    The secular world incessantly bleats lies like “Live your best life,” “The answers are within” and "Love is love.” But what the secular world promotes as truth is simply the latest version of the oldest lie in the world. In Don’t Follow Your Heart: Boldly Breaking the Ten Commandments of Self-Worship, author Thaddeus Williams exposes these false narratives and offers a defense for why it is Jesus and not self, that is worthy of our worship and trust. Request your copy of Don’t Follow Your Heart today by visiting colsoncenter.org/swwilliamsresource.   In the last several years, the radical ideas of modern, secular gender ideology have become mainstream. How did this happen, and how can Christians respond, especially when these bad ideas affect our children and loved ones? At our next Breakpoint Forum livestream on January 16, we’ll address these questions and more with child psychiatrists Drs. Miriam Grossman and Stephen Grcevich. Register for free today at breakpoint.org/forum  The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly journal: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women  in Strong Women on Social Media:   https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC  https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/  https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/