Ellen Wilson Fielding

  . . . . Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: . . . myself it speaks and spells, Crying What I do is me: for that I came. —Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame” _____________________________________________________________ One... Read More →

Fall of 2024 witnessed a variety of news accounts on the topic of assisted suicide. On Nov. 11, The New Atlantis broke an exclusive story about Canada’s increasingly messy Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) practice. Using leaked documents, Alexander Raikin reported ... Read More →

  “Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.” —Christina Rossetti, “Up-Hill” Since I first encountered the poem “Up-Hill” in my teens, these lines never fail to come to mind when life hits a rough patch. In the post-Dobbs, postmodernist, and increasingly... Read More →

  “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.” —Abraham Lincoln, 1858 I first read this quotation from Abraham Lincoln many years ago, and was... Read More →

Edward Short (Gracewing, 2023, 508 pp.) Reviewed by Ellen Wilson Fielding ________________________________________________ The author of this hefty collection of essays and reviews will be well known to readers of the Human Life Review: For a number of years now Edward Short’s... Read More →

  So, without sharing graphic details, let’s just say that the recently celebrated Christmas season did not unfold in my family circle like a Hallmark movie. This, despite not only my prayers but my rather beside-the-point “practical” attempts to incarnate in our midst the... Read More →

    In the fifty-plus years since the movement to legalize abortion in America began scoring successes, I have grappled with the mystery of how so many women in particular could politically support it with such consistent and sometimes ferocious conviction. Oh, it is... Read More →

  For those of us who are Christians, however much we embrace biology, logic, and the law as tools to convey to others the right to life of the unborn, a fundamental question looms large: How do we effectively communicate a sanctity of human life ethic developed over the... Read More →

In light of our culture’s cantankerous disagreements about the extent to which our biological and social nature is fixed and therefore inaccessible to radical change, it is worth noting how greatly our Founding Fathers’ defense of independence from Great Britain was grounded on a... Read More →

  FREIHEIT!: THE WHITE ROSE GRAPHIC NOVEL Andrea Grosso Ciponte (Plough Publishing House, 2021, 111 pages, hardcover, $24) Reviewed by Ellen Wilson Fielding In this beautifully illustrated graphic novel, Italian artist and author Andrea Grosso Ciponte conveys the courage and... Read More →