With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the Point.

Earlier this year, two professors at Tufts University rediscovered a book buried deep in their library.

It's called the disease of starvation. The story behind this scientific research is stunning.

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, hundreds of thousands of Jews were detained in the Warsaw ghetto.

They were deprived of food

and subject to mass executions. Jewish doctors disobeyed their Nazi captors and recorded the

effects of starvation on their own bodies as a testimony against the atrocity. Their work

eventually shaped the Geneva Conventions of 1949 when the starving of civilians became a war crime.

Why did these doctors do this?

Well, one answer is they believed there was meaning to life and to death and therefore to this work. Former Harvard chaplain D. Elton Trueblood said this. A man has made at least a start

on discovering the meaning of human life. When he plants shade trees under which he knows full

well, he will never sit.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.