LifeWay Research found 39 percent say divorce is a sin when an individual’s spouse commits adultery; 38 percent when the couple no longer loves one another; 38 percent when a spouse abandons the other; 37 percent when a spouse is abused; and 35 percent when a spouse is addicted to pornography; and 37 percent say […]
A former professor at Northwest Christian University in Oregon is suing the school for allegedly firing her for being pregnant and unmarried, violating the faith-based values of the institution. She says it’s discrimination. The school says it’s ministerial exception and that she has undermined the school’s mission.
Four Roman Catholic nonprofits in New York, including two high schools, must allow employees access to contraception, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Friday, reversing a decision by a lower court that allowed the organizations to get around a requirement in the Affordable Care Act. A spokesman for the archdiocese said its lawyers were reviewing […]
The Council of Christian Colleges and Universities is losing a member school. Union University in Tennessee (Southern Baptist) has quit the CCCU, saying it cannot remain in a Christian group in which some member institutions will hire people in same-sex marriages. The issue of same-sex marriage has been elevated by some institutions to one on which […]
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed Assembly Bill No. 1266 into law, allowing transgendered students to choose which school bathrooms and locker rooms to use and which sport teams to join based on their gender identity. The law is the nation’s first that specifically requires equal access to public school facilities and activities based on gender […]
From the WaPo: Maryland’s largest school system is considering a policy to guide decisions about its annual school calendar, a move that comes nine months after officials set off a wave of public anger by scrubbing the calendar of religious holiday names, including Christmas.
From Q Ideas: In this 18 min. video, Gordon College president Michael Lindsay discusses the disturbing response from his congressman regarding Gordon College’s LGBT policy and its Christian commitment. Lindsay goes on to present a positive and constructive approach for Christian campuses to the current culture shifts amid diverse and sometimes unreasonable perspectives.
From The New York Times and from The Week: These three perspective pieces on the Planned Parenthood abortion reports may be useful for acquainting students with the contours of the disputes. They illustrate a range of views and whether measured views can move to overstatement.
From The Christian Century: There’s a peculiar thread that runs through the more recent writings on the multiverse. It feels like, for lack of a better word, despair. This despair takes two forms. First, any hope for a grand unifying theory, for completeness of understanding is shattered. Second, the nonlinear, atemporal infinite of the multiverse hypothesis destroys narrative, […]
From The New York Times: It’s as if Jesus’s parable about the workers in the vineyard—where latecomers got the same pay as those who worked all day—has come to life. Earlier this year, Dan Price, a graduate of Seattle Pacific University and CEO of Seattle-based Gravity Payments, made headlines nationwide after announcing plans to raise […]
