Anti-Christian Bias Among the Intellectual Elite? — A small, but elite group of Americans demonstrate signs of anti-Christian hostility, sociologists David Williamson and George Yancey at University of North Texas claim in their new book, So Many Christians, So Few Lions: Is There Christianophobia in the United States? (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014). Here is a […]
Beyond Pacifist and Just War Theology
Beyond Pacifist and Just War Theology — Ron Sider writes that the old debate between pacifists and Just War theorists need not be settled for both to join together in a massive, sustained testing of the possibilities of nonviolence. The theological/ethical commitments of both views demand that they invest seriously in sustained nonviolent peacemaking and, […]
What is the Future of “I”?
What is the Future of “I”? — From Kenneth Hayworth, Senior Research Scientist with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, comes this 9 min. video on consciousness, identity, ethics, and being human. It may serve as a good example of current ideas in evolutionary psychology and can provoke much discussion for courses in neuroscience, religion and […]
Post-Empirical Science as Religion
Post-Empirical Science as Religion — “This year, debates in physics circles took a worrying turn. Faced with difficulties in applying fundamental theories to the observed Universe, some researchers called for a change in how theoretical physics is done. They began to argue — explicitly — that if a theory is sufficiently elegant and explanatory, it […]
Update on Trinity Western University Law School
Update on Trinity Western University Law School — A provincial Supreme Court justice has ruled that a Nova Scotian law society cannot deny future graduates of Canada’s first Christian law school the right to practice because of the college’s position on sexuality.
