“Anxious About Assurance: How can we be sure that we are saved? A Calvinist and Lutheran answer” by Phillip Cary, Eastern College — a book review of Stop Asking Jesus into Your Heart, J.D. Greear, B&H Books, 2013. Cary discusses the book’s theme about the different “postures” of the Calvinist and Lutheran traditions regarding […]
First Things — Schooling Dangerously: a review of two books
Schooling Dangerously: A review of Joseph Murphy’s Homeschooling in America and Quinn Cummings’ The Year of Learning Dangerously by Mary McConnell. Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year—the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools—and between 6 and 12 percent of all […]
Science in Focus: What I Wish I’d Known
Science in Focus: What I Wish I had Known — by John Wilson. The first three installments of this Science in Focus series helps me see that all too often, our God is too small. The Creator of the universe always has more tricks up his sleeve. At the same time, I am reminded that […]
Virtue and Vice Among the Molecules: Nanotech and Religious Belief
Virtue and Vice among the Molecules by Chris Toumey (Covalence Apr 2012) If it is true that there are important issues of right and wrong in nanotechnology, and that religious people care about right and wrong, then why have religious people invested so little attention in nanotech? This question is important because three surveys indicate […]
Issues in Christian Education — Needed: Marriage Education
Needed: Marriage Education! “How Emerging Adults View Marriage and Sexuality” by Justin Hannemann “The Two Shall Become One Flesh.” What Does This Mean? By Dr. Paul Vasconcellos “How Congregations Can Be Proactive and Evangelical in Marriage Education” by Todd A. Bierman
Human / Mouse Hybrid: Glial Cell Transplants
Human / Mouse Hybrid: Glial Transplants Nero-scientists injected some human glial cells into the brains of newborn mice. The mice grew up, and so did the human glial cells. The cells spread through the mouse brain, integrating perfectly with mouse neurons and, in some areas, outnumbering their mouse counterparts. The researchers say these mice are […]
Sherry Turkle: Connected but Alone — a TED Talk
Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone? A TED Talk–As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication — and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have. 18 minutes on […]
Gallup: Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design
Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design, Gallup 1982-2012 –Twenty years of Gallup polls on popular views about human origins: consider the terms and the way the questions are framed.
The Case for Educational Pluralism
The Case for Educational Pluralism: Alternatives to the state-funded educational monopolyby Ashley Rogers Berner–Recent American educational innovation—charter schools, vouchers, cyber-education, Teach for America—are encouraging educational diversity, but they can only go so far. Lasting, structural change requires reframing “public education” to mean publicly funded or publicly supported, not exclusively publicly delivered, education. This in turn […]
