God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism — a former dispensationalist Christian (see the Schofield Study Bible) found herself adrift in the world but then found solace in Ray Kurzweil’s radical technological philosophy of transhumanism. But its promises of immortality and spiritual transcendence soon seemed unsettlingly familiar. Students can examine this first person account […]
Expelling a Student May Violate Pennsylvania’s Public Accommodation Law, Even for a Religious College: A Pennsylvania court decided that a Catholic College could be liable for violating the state’s public accommodation law for expelling a student, underscoring the evolving nature of the intersection of public accommodations and religious liberty rights. The shows how a religious college might […]
College Promise Programs: New York has created a free-tuition-and-books program. This site from the Univ of Pennsylvania catalogs and maps various programs that promote college attainment through forms of free tuition. Religious higher education may need to monitor future developments.
Why we need Mary Oliver’s poems: For theology and liturgy, poetry has always mattered. Scripture begins and ends with poetry and contains swaths and snatches of it throughout its vast remainder. The rites of Christian worship across the centuries have endured in part because they are poetry in the mouth, poetry in the ear, poetry to […]
A Springtime of Hope for Catholic Education: This article briefly surveys a collection of small Catholic colleges that have made deliberated revisions in their aim and purpose. “We are seeing a trend in Catholic higher education toward schools…reinvigorated when committed fully to Catholic education.” Each case and this possible trend may merit further study by […]
Catholic Schools Need a Business Model: “The [Catholic] parochial school model is a dinosaur,” said the director of the Villanova Center for Church Management and Business Ethics. As neighborhoods have changed, as priests and nuns have dwindled, as charter schools have become competition, Catholic-school economics have long since stopped working. As parochial schools convert to charter […]
Gordon College’s Entire Faculty Senate Resigns: All seven professors on a Gordon College committee in charge of recommending faculty promotions and tenure resigned last week, believing the evangelical school’s administration had started to ignore their suggestions. The issue appears to revolve around a faculty promotion issue. See also All seven members resign from Gordon College faculty […]
Read, Rise, Soar: The April 29, 2017, edition of World Magazine includes a spread on child lit and children’s books. See the five articles, Life beyond looks, Ends of the beginnings, A hero’s humility, and Bad words.
Argument preview: More than just a playground dispute — On April 19, 2017, the court will hear oral argument in a dispute that began as a battle over a playground – or, to be precise, the surfaces of the playground at the daycare and preschool operated by a Missouri church. The church argues that its […]
ON CAPITOL HILL: First Liberty Testifies About Hostility Against Religious Students — This advocacy piece from a religious legal organization discusses testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice of the House Judiciary Committee. The brief article includes three cases on secular campuses and three recommendations and could be useful for classes in […]
