Schools of thought: Homeschooling — A German homeschooling family’s fight for asylum in the United States will say a lot about the U.S. government’s official attitude toward the home school movement. Christian parents who want to homeschool their children in a country that requires children to attend state-approved schools find that homeschools don’t qualify.
On Reading Dorothy Sayers’s Play Cycle for Lent
On Reading Dorothy Sayers’s Play Cycle for Lent by Gilbert Meilaender — The Man Born to Be King is a series of radio plays, twelve in all, dramatizing the life of Jesus from birth to death and resurrection. First broadcast by the BBC in 1941–1942, they were published in 1943, together with Sayers’s notes for […]
Alternative Way to Explain Life’s Complexity Proposed
Alternative Way to Explain Life’s Complexity Proposed — Biologists have proposed various ways that ‘irreducibly complex’ structures could emerge incrementally over time, bit by bit. But a new study proposes an alternative route.Instead of starting from simpler precursors and becoming more intricate, some structures could have evolved from complex beginnings that gradually grew simpler: “complexity […]
Applying God’s Law: Religious Courts and Mediation in the U.S. — an analysis
Applying God’s Law: Religious Courts and Mediation in the U.S. — This report by the Pew Research Center focuses on religious courts and mediation, examining how some of the country’s major Christian denominations and other religious groups – 15 groups in total – routinely decide internal matters and apply their religious laws.
Christian materialism in Philosophy of Mind–the harvard ichthus
Christian Materialism in Philosophy of Mind by Jordan Monge (click on the second cover page below the top one for the pdf) An interesting example of student writing on faith, philosophy, the neurosciences, Lewis, and Freud that seeks a middle path between physicalism and an immaterial soul.
