The Future of Reproduction and the Limits of Responsibility — The New America Foundation’ conference on The Future of Reproduction presents several speakers. First Things commentator offers a critique and registers several concerns. Students can review and weigh the claims, perspectives, and world views.
Ryan Anderson’s Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage
Ryan Anderson’s Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage — This WaPo profile of a young Heritage Foundation scholar offers students am opportunity to assess the arguments of an opponent to gay marriage and whether those positions are credible and whether they can be influential.
Einstein’s Universe Turns 100
Einstein’s Universe Turns 100 — One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein presented the complete formulation of the General Theory of Relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Perhaps the greatest lesson from Einstein and his theories of relativity is that reality is not what it seems. What we perceive as real is a distortion, a […]
Christ, Culture, and Thinking About Secularism
Christ, Culture, and Thinking About Secularism — Near Eastern Studies Professor Michael Brown looks back at the prescient essay on an advancing secularism written by Lutheran theologian Wolfgang Pannenberg twenty years ago: “In a secular milieu, even an elementary knowledge of Christianity, its history, teachings, sacred texts, and formative figures dwindles. It is no longer […]
An Amicus Brief on the Public Purpose of Marriage
An Amicus Brief on the Public Purpose of Marriage — From the Ruth Institute, this brief to the Supreme Court seeks to distinguish public purpose, prevailing interest, and personal affect and commitment, arguing that the courts have largely confused these concepts in recent rulings. May be useful for helping students learn the themes and concepts.
Anabaptists Work on Unity Over Same-Sex Differences
Anabaptists Work on Unity Over Same-Sex Differences — In the first nine months of 2014, 10 churches left the Mennonite Church USA. Meanwhile, Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) voted to delay a formal position on its policy against same-sex relationships, effectively allowing faculty to indefinitely violate the current policy. Meanwhile, the larger denomination is seeking ways […]
Te Q Conference: the Christian Debate on Sexuality
The Q Conference: the Christian Debate on Sexuality — The Q Conference did not mirror the debates common on cable news networks, but they may more closely resemble the national conversation in many homes, workplaces, and churches about topics ranging from the connection between spirituality and sexuality to Americans’ attitudes on religious freedom laws, and […]
