Private Schools for the Public Good — The Cardus Think Tank has released its 2014 education survey which presents evidence that non-public and particularly parochial schools promote the public good even above public schools and that school choice should become part of education policy.
Bigger Love: Debating Marriage and Sex Beyond Morality
Bigger Love: Debating Marriage and Sex Beyond Morality — Bret Mavrich argues that the current marriage disputes, including impending polygamy, should be addressed as a prophetic issues of the ways the old Adam seeks to centralize power and eclipse God’s greater love and call for justice.
The Full This-Worldliness of Life
The Full This-Worldliness of Life — Dietrich Bonhoeffer continues to receive attention and study as perhaps the twentieth century’s chief voice and case study on the two kingdoms. This review examines Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Charles Marsh (Knopf, 2014), widely regarded as a solid contribution to the literature.
Why Christian Education
Why Christian Education — Jim Drexel at Covenant Colleges offers a rationale for Christian Education, examining the usual pro and con views and citing Luther and Calvin with attention to the two kingdoms.
Captialism and the Common Good
Capitalism and the Common Good — A discussion of market efficiencies, market externalities, market moralities, and theologies that ignore one kingdom or the other. This essay offers several themes for undergrad or non-economics grad student to consider.
Wielding the Word: Luther’s Two-Kingdoms Take on the Economy
Wielding the Word: Luther’s Two-Kingdoms Take on the Economy — A survey of Luther’s active two-kingdoms critique of economic trends and abuses in the church and civil affairs of his times with attention to misreadings of Luther in our times.
Student Religious Groups Removed at 23 CSU Campuses
Student Religious Groups Removed at 23 CSU Campuses Over Leadership Issue — Intervarsity Fellowship and other student organizations have been, in modern campus terminology, “derecognized” by California State University schools. They will no longer be a recognized campus organization on any of the 23 schools in that system. This article offers analysis of this developing […]
Student Religious Groups and Vanderbilt University
Student Religious Groups and Vanderbilt University — Over the past two years, Vanderbilt University has enacted policy to exclude student groups based on leadership creedal belief and on sexual expression. Fourteen campus religious communities no longer have organizational standing including Catholic, Evangelical, and Mormon groups. Tish Harrison Warren describes her failed effort to reason with […]
Final Ruling Against Part of Polygamy Ban
Final Ruling Against Part of Polygamy Ban — A federal judge in Utah issued a final ruling striking down a part of the state’s polygamy ban as unconstitutional, reaffirming the court’s earlier decision that a section of Utah law that prohibits “cohabitation” violates the Constitution’s religious freedom and privacy protections.
Southlake Church Adopts Portland Public High School
Southlake Church Adopts Portland Public High School — This congregation puts their faith into action by helping to rejuvenate a local deteriorating public school with an ongoing series of projects and program of assistance.
