The 2014 International Awards Program for Religious Art & Architecture — Jury members agreed that religious art and architecture are flourishing throughout the world, and that artists, architects, liturgical designers, students, and others are exploring ways to balance tradition with new demands of religious practice. The landscape of sacred space is changing, along with dramatic […]
Items included on this page come from a variety of sources. The perspectives conveyed may or may not express a Lutheran ethos. They can serve our instruction as discussion-starters, examples (positive and negative), and illustrations of intersections between God’s two kingdoms, intersections sometimes characterized by tension, sometimes by congruence. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
As We Forgive
As We Forgive — A 10 min. video on young Christian filmmaker Laura Waters Hinson, producer of As We Forgive, the Academy Award winning documentary on the Rwanda genocide and possibilities of forgiveness. She discusses her work in film, her calling as a Christian, and her new projects. The film discusses the left-hand kingdom’s efforts […]
Christian Writers Guild Shuts Down
Christian Writers Guild Shuts Down — The Christian Writers Guild, owned by novelist Jerry Jenkins, has shut down after 50 years of operation. Jenkins, who purchased the group in 2001, announced the closing at the CWG website. See also the Christianity Today report.
Religion and Electronic Media
Religion and Electronic Media — In an average week, one-in-five Americans share their religious faith online, about the same percentage that tune in to religious talk radio, watch religious TV programs or listen to Christian rock music. And nearly half of U.S. adults see someone else share their religious faith online in a typical week.
The Rhetorical Device of Assigned Mendacity
The Rhetorical Device of Assigned Mendacity — An instructive essay by Mark Bauerlein that can be used to alert students to a technique in discourse sometimes used to distract and discredit the religious perspective. This form of the indirect ad hominem occurs in policy debates and legal decisions and can be detected with a […]
Religious Kids, The Bible, and Other Fiction
Religious Kids, The Bible, and Other Fiction — The GetReligion monitor site discusses how a piece of research is framed in a study of children, reading stories, and judging what is fiction and what is real. From the study abstract: “The results suggest that exposure to religious ideas has a powerful impact on children’s differentiation […]
Using and Editing Wikipedia on Religion
Using and Editing Wikipedia on Religion — Wikipedia is the fifth most-trafficked website on the Internet and its complex policies and regulations for editing — more than 50 of them — for editing the open-source site total nearly 150,000 words (thick enough for a book). The problem confronting many Wikipedia editors is that religion elicits passion — […]
Popular Press and Christian Colleges
Popular Press and Christian Colleges — The GetReligion monitor site offers some comment on the NYT coverage of Bryan College and its current controversies on human origins and instruction: “The real tension seems to be: How do Christian colleges balance their strong biblical worldview with rigorous academic scholarship and freedom? And later in the piece, […]
Language, Moral Rationality, and Human Agency
Language, Moral Rationality, and Human Agency — Philosopher Alva Noe critiques recent research on whether language and especially our native (vs. second language) alters our ethical judgment. The piece may be useful for examining views on human nature, sources and influences for moral reasoning (Rom. 2:12, etc.), and how research in these areas is done. […]
Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Search Engines and Appeals Courts
Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Search Engines and Appeals Courts — The true state of CPC search ads for crisis pregnancy centers is hard to measure. What isn’t is the recent number of court cases favoring how crisis pregnancy centers present themselves.
