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David Mills is a Senior Editor of The Stream. After teaching writing in a seminary, he has been editor of Touchstone and the executive editor of First Things. He has edited a book on C. S. Lewis called The Pilgrim’s Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness and written two books of popular theology, Knowing the Real Jesus and Discovering Mary. He edits Hour of Our Death, a site offering honest stories about death and dying for the Christian, as well as insights from the wise people of the past. David writes columns for Aleteia and The Pittsburgh Catholic and serves on the boards of Ethika Politika and The Chesterton Review. He and his wife have four children. They live outside Pittsburgh.
It’s the language we use for diseases. Polio, we say, has been eradicated from the earth. A couple years ago, many pro-lifers jumped on the moral carelessness of a CBS story which declared giddily that Down syndrome had been “basically…
