An Articulate Lutheran Small Business Owner on Same-Sex Marriage — NPR has a series on same-sex marriage views in North Dakota. This 7 min. audio clip can offer students a clearly expressed view from a thoughtful layperson with which they can agree and/or disagree.
Is Writing From a Muslim Perspective an Appropriate History Assignment?
Is Writing From a Muslim Perspective an Appropriate History Assignment? — A Wisconsin high school teacher faces criticism for assigning a five-paragraph point-of-view essay to her sophomore world history class in which the students were instructed to write from a Muslim perspective.
President of World Bank Builds Alliance with Religious Leaders Roundtable
President of World Bank Builds Alliance with Religious Leaders Roundtable — A group of religious leaders have joined forces with the World Bank to attempt to end extreme poverty by 2030. More than 30 religious leaders and heads of global faith-based organizations signed the joint statement.
Public Accommodation and Private Litigation
Public Accommodation and Private Discrimination — The author seeks to clarify existing distinctions in religious freedom and civil rights laws and court actions. The reader will need to consider how the author and participants in these issues parse this effort and the distinctions. However than may be, the article may be useful.
Nancy Pearcey: Youth Groups Depend Too Much on Emotionalism
Nancy Pearcey: Youth Groups Depend Too Much on Emotionalism — In this interview, Pearcey discusses the five principles detailed in her new apologetics book, Finding Truth (David C. Cook, 2015): identify the idol, identify the idol’s reductionism, test the idol’s validity, test the idol’s consistency, make the alternate case for Christian faith. Pearcey works from […]
The Case Against Gay Marriage: Top Law Firms Won’t Touch It
The Case Against Gay Marriage: Top Law Firms Won’t Touch It — There are no major law firms urging the justices to rule against gay marriage. Standing up for traditional marriage has turned out to be too much for the elite bar. The arguments have been left to members of lower-profile firms.
Complicit as Sin
Complicit as Sin — This article considers current freedom-of-religion cases as an extended effort to legitimize discrimination and stereotypes and also harm human dignity. The writer cites legal arguments and court cases as evidence that religious conscience exemptions do tangible and significant harm and that harms from religious freedom claims in the health care context […]
End-of-Life Ethics
End-of-Life Ethics — What does it mean to die well in this culture? This question is being asked with greater urgency and frequency as contemporary societies become more scientifically and medically sophisticated. The church as a source of both pastoral care and moral vision has untapped resources to share.
Meet the Women Apologists
Meet the Women Apologists — This Month’s (April 2015) cover story in Christianity Today looks at how apologetics has long been a bastion of men—until now. This edition examines the work of Holly Ordway, Amy Orr-Ewing, and “a burgeoning group of women who are reshaping apologetics in the West.”
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert Putman
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (Simon and Schuster, 2015) — An interview with Robert Putnam (Bowling Alone, 2001) about his new book and his concern that opportunity inequality, or the gap between the chances for success among children from high- and low-income homes, is increasing and the prospects for getting into a good […]
