Religious Liberty in the Military

All Current Features

Synod, other advocates speak for religious liberty in secularized military: The LCMS and other groups are speaking up for the rights of U.S. service members to live faithfully amid continued U.S. Defense Department infringements on religious freedom in the military. Despite the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) claims of accommodating religious expression in the military, a heavily secularized […]

Muitiple Marriage: Illegal; Multiple Partners: Legal

Social Sciences

A polygamy trial in Canada tests the limits of conjugal freedom: As the institution of marriage continues to change in a changing culture, students can use this article, the trial, and the issues to begin sorting out the social, cultural, religious, theological and biblical distinctions at work among these parties and other claimants in church […]

Newman University (KS) to Start LGBTQ Support Group

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Catholic University in Kansas Plans LGBTQ Group: Newman University, a private Catholic school in Wichita, plans to offer a group next year to support its LGBTQ students while continuing to emphasize Catholic teaching that condones sex only in marriage between a man and a woman. Kevin Clack, the group’s first student leader, said he doesn’t agree with […]

On Ethics: an Annotated List of Recent Books

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Take and Rread: Ethics, an annotated list of the best new titles selected by Jonathan Tran April 24, 2017 — Ten newer books on ethics and agency including Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity by Alasdair MacIntyre, Brent Waters’ book on Christians and capitalism, a title on the Stoics and the early Christians as rival traditions, and […]

Bill Nye, the Scientism Guy

The Real “Anti-Science”: Agree or disagree, this argumentative essay can assist students with teasing out the continuing public issues over science education, definitions of science, science and ideology, and who speaks for science. “There are at least three means by which these supposed defenders of science actually undermine it through their political tactics.”

Understanding Transhumanism Ideology and Technology

General

Can Christians Affirm Transhumanism?  This 30 min. audio program discusses just how fast technology is changing, why Christians may be willing to genetically modify their children, and the best way to understand transhumanism. “It seems to me that the biggest misunderstanding of Christians for transhumanism is that they think that it’s just science fiction, that’s it’s some […]

On the New Artificial Womb

An extra-uterine system to physiologically support the extreme premature lamb: Scientists have created an “artificial womb” in the hopes of someday using the device to save babies born extremely prematurely.  Study research Dr. Alan Flake says his team has no interest in trying to gestate a fetus any earlier than about 23 weeks into pregnancy: “I […]

Christians and Public Schools, cont.

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Should Christians Abandon Public Schools? This commentary advocates Christians remaining involved in public education: Influential thought leaders are advocating withdrawal from public life in order to preserve historical Christian beliefs. That includes withdrawal from public schools and other public institutions. But what would a large-scale Christian withdrawal from civic life look like?

On the History of Lincoln and the Social Gospel

Social Sciences

Cheese State Reality Check: On the Wisconsin Idea and the Social Gospel — This essay presents some background on Abraham Lincoln, the slave state controversy, and the founding of the Republican party in Ripon, WI, in 1854 as the radical religious left. Students may be interested to consider how movements begin and change over time […]

 
 
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