Is it a Christian’s duty to donate blood and organs?

The General Synod of the Church of England is discussing that even as you read this. I’m an organ donor mostly because I don’t believe I will need my guts where I am going. And it fits into my whole idea of sharing. I do not, however, give blood very often because I’m a big ol’ hairy …

In last weeks’ reading of the Hebrew scriptures:

I am into Leviticus, and the beginning of the book and at the end of Exodus there’s a lot of very specific rules as to sacrifices. In fact, though my inclination is to skip over some of the stuff about goats without a blemish, it struck me that the priests had to be pretty deft …