Officers Can Turn To Police Chaplains In Time Of Need: This 5 min. audio clip (with transcript) offers a positive view on the role of clergy in local police departments large and small and an informative example of church and state, left-hand kingdom and right-hand kingdom. NPR interviews Mark Clements, president of the International Conference of […]
The NPR blog on Cosmos and Culture has entered in juxtaposition these two columns on the culture of science. Each is brief, and students can compare and contrast them to gain some perspective on different postures that informed people take both inside and outside the church. When Science Stands Up to Creationism The Porous Boundary […]
When Learning Hurts: Some thoughts on safe and not-so-safe from a prof at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. “Educators often know the issues for which students need some additional preparation. In my classes, I often know some of the specific issues that students are dealing with, having early on assigned papers that ask them to describe and […]
Open Letter to the College Senior: Students and profs may find this point / counterpoint on perennialism and essentialism worth discussing. Dan Camacho, graduate of Calvin College, offers some thoughts about his former prof’s comments in the WSJ. See also Has Anyone Seen Last Year’s Promising Freshmen?
Where Her Whimsy Took Me: I had reduced the texts I encountered—books, poetry, films—to great mountains of useless shale, through which ran a few veins of useful ore, raw materials for my current project. My task: to excavate the ore and purify it into argument. Literature became useful. Utilitarian. Impoverished. Then I was arrested by Sayers.
Essays From CSStL Multiethnic Symposium: In this post-Feguson, post-Dallas period, the symposium has shifted to ethnic representation and examining cultural presuppositions within the LCMS. Included are essays from Kou Seying, Bill Schumacher, Mason Okubo, and Leo Sanchez.
Largest For-Profit Christian College to Open Seminary This Fall: GCU has announced that it will open an independent, non-denominational, for-profit theological seminary this fall. It will also remain publicly traded after the HLC denied its plan for a parallel profit/non-profit corporation.
Meet the unelected bodies chipping away at religious freedom: SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) commissions and regulators continue to receive attention, pro and con. This World Mag article can be used as an intro for students. (See also Liberty and SOGI Laws: An Impossible and Unsustainable Compromise.”) A cursory search engine scan does’t immediately produce […]
A Madisonian Vision of Religious Liberty: (Note–one free download) This essay summarizes Madison’s understanding of religious liberty, with specific reference to religious toleration, natural rights of conscience, religious exemptions in law, and establishments of religion. The essay draws attention to points of agreement and disagreement between Madison and John Locke.
Armed Forces Court of Appeals Interprets RFRA In Military Context: Two appeals judges ruled, “Appellant has failed to identify the sincerely held religious belief that made placing the signs important to her exercise of religion or how the removal of the signs substantially burdened her exercise of religion in some other way.” The dissenting judge argues, […]
