Trafficking in Priceless Goods: The Invisible Epidemic of Modern Day Slavery: The author, Wendy L. Patrick, J.D., is a career prosecutor in the San Diego District Attorney’s Office with years of experience prosecuting human trafficking cases and sex crimes. She has a MDiv degree and a PhD in Theology, is an ordained Baptist minister, and is […]
Sources on Sologamy: News stories and articles surface from time to time on the cultural trend of self-marriage or sologamy. Students can examine this trend in terms of social psychology, biblical themes and doctrine, media trends, anthropology, and other means of analysis. The topic can serve as an intro to larger units or studies in […]
There Must Be More Productive Ways To Talk About Climate Change: Katharine Hayhoe is a climate scientist at Texas Tech University and also an evangelical Christian who engages Christians and others in the ways we talk to and past each other on this issue and many controversial issues in science. This 5 min. audio-plus-transcript suggests methods […]
The changing nature of sacred spaces: While for the present time congregation-based religion is contracting, the desire for sacred or devoted space continues. Students can use this article and photo spread to consider the Reformation’s themes on incarnational theology and a biblical anthropology of space and location as well as our incorrigibly human inclination toward the transcendent […]
Debate on Religious Liberty in the Public Square: Four panelist conduct this lengthy 2 hr. video debate, not resolving the issues but airing them in sometimes contentious ways that students can compare and contrast. The session will indicate for students the need for further study of the issues.
The Courts and Religious Employees: these two cases from lower courts are part of the judicial practice around Hosanna-Tabor being worked out currently in the legal system. Defamation Suit Against Minister Not Necessarily Barred By Ecclesiastical Abstention Doctrine Teacher’s Defamation Verdict Against Archdiocese Upheld
What Good Is Religious Freedom? Locke, Rand, and the Non-Religious Case for Respecting It — From the Introduction: “I am not a religious believer, yet I regard religious freedom as a critical component of a proper legal system. What religious freedom is, however, is widely misunderstood in contemporary debate; it does not entail all of the […]
Lectures on Inhumanity: Teaching Medical Ethics in German Medical Schools Under Nazism — Students should learn that comparisons and analogies to Nazi Germany are often tenuous. Nevertheless this study from the Annals of Internal Medicine offers an informed examination of ethics gone awry in one of the most advanced cultures in history: “Course catalogs and […]
How Two Mississippi College Students Fell in Love and Decided to Join a Terrorist Group: Says Bobby Ross at GetReligion about this indepth account, “Readers learn how a young Christian woman raised in a church where her mother teaches Sunday school converted to Islam and quickly became radicalized, and how a young Muslim man who […]
“Is Genesis History?” Revisiting an Age-Old Debate: This article reviews and critiques the film “Is Genesis History?” and the presentation of its perspective on the science/religion issues. The writer addresses how the film makes its case which he argues will increase rather than decrease confusion, particularly for college students.
