Christian Ethicist’s LGBT Assessment — The Associated Baptist Press has been running a series on Christianity and LGBT issues by David Gushee. Gushee is a an ethicist at Mercer University. His intent is to “provide some helpful commentary for others who might like to get beyond avoidism and move toward some convictional clarity” using a […]
Items included for this subject area 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.
"Open Book" by R. Marxhausen: the Bible, the book open to us all
The Evangelical Academy
The Evangelical Academy — “Rather quickly over the past few years,” says Richard Mouw, “the question of the right of religious institutions to ‘discriminate’ on the basis of religious convictions has become an urgent topic for many of us.” Yet Jesuit colleges such as the Loyolas host plenty of non-Jesuit profs. Evangelical academic institutions are […]
Losing Religion at College? New Study Says Otherwise
Losing Religion at College? New Study Says Otherwise — A college degree used to mean people were more likely to lose religion. Now, some lose religion whether they went to college or not but it’s especially true for those who didn’t go to college. It’s the least-educated members of Gen X who are “most likely to […]
Robert Barnes: Martyr Caught Between the Kingdoms
Robert Barnes: Martyr Caught Between the Kingdoms — This 20 min. audio clip from Matt Phillips is an interesting introduction to the early Lutheran martyr, Robert Barnes, executed by Henry VIII in 1540. Useful as a unit set or historical case study for studies in church and state, church and society, history of diplomacy, Bonhoeffer […]
An Executive Order and Relgious Exemptions
An Executive Order and Religious Exemptions — An executive order President Obama signed on 7/21/2014 prohibiting sexual orientation discrimination in federal hiring may not immediately affect many religious organizations, but leaders are still raising their eyebrows.
Gordon College and the Religious Exemption Disputes
Gordon College and the Religious Exemption Disputes — Michael Lindsay, President of Gordon College, co-signed a letter to President Obama, asking that Obama include a religious exemption in his imminent executive order barring federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Within hours of the letter’s reproduction in the Atlantic, […]
Tuition Discounting and Revenue: It’s Complicated
Tuition Discounting and Revenue: It’s Complicated — Because of high institutional discount rates and large percentages of students receiving grants that cover a substantial portion of tuition and fees, average growth in net tuition revenue per freshman has been limited in recent years, growing 3.4 percent in 2012 and expected to grow only 1.1 percent […]
A Reflection on Mark Schwenn’s Exiles From Egypt
A Reflection on Mark Schwenn’s Exiles From Eden — Schwenn published Exiles From Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America some twenty years ago, in which he challenges higher education’s substituting an emphasis on research in place of human formation. This brief article, “Teaching Viritues,” revisits that theme.
Got Religion on Campus? Leave It Off Your Resume
Got Religion on Campus? Leave It Off Your Resume — Two new sociology studies find new graduates who included mention of affiliation with a campus religious group on a resume were much less likely to hear back from potential employers. The researchers tested seven religious categories including: Roman Catholic, evangelical Christian, atheist, Jewish, Muslim, pagan, […]
The Psychology Behind Morality
The Psychology Behind Morality — This hour-long interview serves as a good intro or overview on the current research and social science views on moral norms and moral reasoning. The guest, Jonathan Haidt, is the author of the bestselling book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (Vintage, 2013). His […]
