Young Earth Incident: Cal State Fires Microscopy Scientist — Mark Armitage filed a lawsuit against California State University Northridge this week, claiming he was fired by college officials after he discovered soft tissue on a triceratops horn and published his findings.
Religious Kids, The Bible, and Other Fiction
Religious Kids, The Bible, and Other Fiction — The GetReligion monitor site discusses how a piece of research is framed in a study of children, reading stories, and judging what is fiction and what is real. From the study abstract: “The results suggest that exposure to religious ideas has a powerful impact on children’s differentiation […]
An Executive Order and Relgious Exemptions
An Executive Order and Religious Exemptions — An executive order President Obama signed on 7/21/2014 prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination in federal hiring may not immediately affect many religious organizations, but leaders are still raising their eyebrows.
The IRS, the Church, and Political Speech
The IRS, the Church, and Political Speech — The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has agreed to investigate the political activity of churches after reaching a settlement with an atheist legal group. But a court has yet to decide whether or not to close the case.
Gordon College and the Religious Exemption Disputes
Gordon College and the Religious Exemption Disputes — Michael Lindsay, President of Gordon College, co-signed a letter to President Obama, asking that Obama include a religious exemption in his imminent executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Within hours of the letter’s reproduction in the Atlantic, […]
Using and Editing Wikipedia on Religion
Using and Editing Wikipedia on Religion — Wikipedia is the fifth most-trafficked website on the Internet and its complex policies and regulations for editing — more than 50 of them — for editing the open-source site total nearly 150,000 words (thick enough for a book). The problem confronting many Wikipedia editors is that religion elicits passion — […]
Tuition Discounting and Revenue: It’s Complicated
Tuition Discounting and Revenue: It’s Complicated — Because of high institutional discount rates and large percentages of students receiving grants that cover a substantial portion of tuition and fees, average growth in net tuition revenue per freshman has been limited in recent years, growing 3.4 percent in 2012 and expected to grow only 1.1 percent […]
Presbyterian’s Procedural Problems
Presbyterians’ Procedural Problems — Joseph D. Small, director of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Theology and Worship from 1989 to 2011, presents a case study on church body governance and polity in the PC-USA General Assembly’s decision to approve same-sex marriag
Catholic School Hires Gay, Fires for Same-Sex Marriage
Catholic School Hires Gay, Fires for Same-Sex Marriage — This case may be noteworthy for Christian educators, given the reported sequence of its development. Administrators, boards, and sponsoring bodies are facing increasingly complex conditions as they seek to sustain a practice of Law and Gospel.
Southwestern Christian University Expels Student for Same-Sex Marriage
Southwestern Christian University Expels Student for Same-Sex Marriage — A lesbian student who married her partner was expelled from an Oklahoma university one semester shy of her sports management degree. Christian Minard, 22, who belongs to an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America congregation in Oklahoma City, is a Christian, but her decision to marry her […]
