Christian Educators’ Letter to Congress: Protect Christian Colleges  —   More than 70 leaders in the Christian education field signed letters to Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., advocating for legislation that will protect Christian institutions from the government for upholding biblical views on marriage.

Understanding the Transgender Phenomenon  —  From Mark Yarhouse, a leading Christian researcher on sexual identity:  The research institute I direct, housed at Regent University in Virginia, published the first study of its kind on transgender Christians a few years ago. My experiences counseling children, adolescents, and adults have all compelled me to further study gender […]

The Rise of Christian Conservative Legal Organizations  — Who are these organizations? What do they do? How do they differ from one another? What does the future hold for the Christian legal movement?  And how might we assess them in terms of a two kingdoms analysis?  Pre-law and other students may be interested in investigating […]

Monetizing the Gospel  —  Christian conferences are often pitched as life-changing opportunities to fellowship and inspire spiritual growth through the sharing of the Gospel by popular pastors and singers with major followings in the Christian community. Tickets to these events cost up to $799, raising concerns about the monetization of the Gospel that the Bible […]

Church Historian Grant Wacker and Reckoning with the Past  —  My aim in teaching Christian history at Duke Divinity School has been to help my students hear, truly hear, the voices of the past echoing down the canyons of time, calling us to discern not only how the church has been embedded in its history, […]

Openly Secular, Baptists, and Defending Religious Freedom  —  Christianity Today interviews Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary president Danny Akin who posted a 2-minute video for Openly Secular, which is dedicated to eliminating discrimination against atheists, freethinkers, agnostics, humanists, and nonreligious people.  This event can serve as a case study for how Christians should or should not […]

Freedom Within the Disciplines  —  The faculty at Notre Dame has been discussing the role of theology in its core curriculum and the nature of the academic disciplines:  Are disciplines the building blocks of university education and thus the proper focus for a core curriculum? Or should we recognize that academic disciplines are “artificial” and […]

Inequalities  —  The June 2015 issue of Comment zooms in with a more granular understanding of the sources and causes of unjust inequalities, and makes a bold claim: There can be just inequalities, and with them often comes an unequal responsibility for the health of society.  

The Slippery Slope to Polygamy: Pro and Con  —  This exchange between two thoughtful columnists can help students sort through the arguments whether the current culture is moving toward an acceptance and legalization of polygamy.  In this order, The Prospects,   The Polygamists,   The Fascinating Politics,   and Polygamy Redux.