Opposing ends of the spectrum: Exploring trust in scientific and religious authorities — This study examines public trust in scientific and religious authorities for information about the risks and benefits of science including values, knowledge, media attention, and trust in religious organizations and scientific institutions. See also commentary, For Some, Scientists Aren’t The Authority On Science.
Why White Evangelicals Are Feeling Hopeful About Trump: Among the many articles decoding the election results, this one may serve as a current catalyst for students when assessing politics and religion in our culture, and using a two-kingdoms perspective to inform that assessment.
The Bible Never Says ‘All Men Are Created Equal’: The New Testament mentions equality once or twice, but when it comes to social relationships, it is far more interested in concepts like oneness, commonness, partnership, union, and joint-inheritance. If you make all those passages about equality, you flatten their meaning. The New Testament presents a better, […]
Bridging the digital divide, company gives churches free websites: Students can consider the pros and cons of digital tools for local ministry. TicketNetwork executive Don Va started Grace Church Websites to meet a need he discovered while talking to his friend, the Rev. Boise Kimber of New Haven, Conn. “We had purchased a website for […]
Has the World Devoured the Word in American Lutheranism? This assessment by Robert Benne, seasoned author and commentator in the Lutheran tradition, offers some observations about the Lutheran scene and our sustaining a presence in the world with rather than without God’s word.
Classical Conflict: Education profs and students may find this overview of the classical model in Christian schools and charter schools informative. Will classical public charter schools lure Christian parents away from schools that acknowledge Christ as the center of all things? “Just like classical Christian schools, the charters aim to teach students to embrace truth, goodness, […]
Court Returns Again to Death Penalty and Intellectually Disabled: For a course unit or sub-unit on the death penalty issues, this discussion of recent and current Supreme Court decisions can help students survey the issues and arguments. The justices will further consider the legal definition of the mentally disabled exclusion and, in particular, how up-to-date the […]
Answering the biggest question of all: why is there something rather than nothing? — Students can get a start on Liebniz’ question, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” with this brief essay. The author summarizes the usual responses from theism to multiple universes while leaving the question open.
Faith and the Arts: A Fragile Friendship — Even as churches are more willing to engage the arts, artists who work at the highest levels of craft are engaging the church less readily. This may be because, broadly speaking, Christians continue to vote with their dollars for popular entertainment. This article is one within an […]
Three features, three editorials, book reviews, and an inventory: In this edition, we look outside Lutheran teaching and consider the issues of the Christian’s involvement in public schools as a student, parent, teacher, or administrator. With our parochial history in mind, a reader might well ask, “So why is such a publication as this spending effort on public […]
