Christian Medical Fellowship's Website

CMF's site is neat and attractive with many excellent articles on subjects ranging from evangelism to euthanasia. It stands out among Christian medical pages, many of which are basically poster adverts for the organisation.

Navigation around the site is easy. Articles are indexed by both subject and publication. It would be nice, however, to see some links to other sites categorised by subject. For regular users the 'What's New?' page is invaluable. On your first visit to the site, in true 'big brother' style, your e-mail address is automatically accessed in order to send you e-mail updates on the site.

After an early rush of articles, work on these pages seems to have dried up. With no new pages this year the site needs updating quickly or it will soon look out of date. One of the fascinating paradoxes of the Internet is that magazines and newspapers such as The Times have put the whole text of their publication on the Internet and found paper sales and web site visits increase. So, now, you can browse back issues of Triple Helix without needing to put up a new shelf to keep them on.

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Summary: a great site which seems sure to become ever more useful.

What the Christian Internet has to say about . . .
The Death Penalty

This topical and controversial subject is one that as a Christian health professional you may be asked about. Christians were recently interested in the execution of the American woman Karla Faye Tucker who had apparently become a Christian before her death.

The Karla Faye Tucker website was a graphically attractive page written by a Christian. It emotively sets out why Karla should not have been executed and provides several other useful links. It may not be immediately obvious that you need to click on the star next to each link to visit it. One of the links provides a blow by blow account of what was to happen to Karla. The author has not updated this page since her death, which adds to its poignancy. It is as though time is stationary, awaiting the judges' final decision.

Some references which discuss a Christian perspective on the death penalty, and consider why some Christians support it are: www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/cap-pun.html and justice.uaa.alaska.edu/death/debate.html.