Chance to get ID cards draws hundreds to Winston-Salem event: The Forsyth County, NC, Sheriff’s Office, Winston-Salem Police Department and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Division of Faith and Health Ministries have asked the local social ministry group, FaithAction,to provide an ID card service in Winston-Salem. “This is a local answer to a national issue — a broken […]
An Open Mind? — Do the wonders described by contemporary neuroscience require us to affirm a radical materialist conception of human nature? The question is not whether neuroscience offers exciting new evidence about human behavior. Rather, it is how we interpret the evidence. Students can use this essay to examine the perennial mind/body question and […]
Let Us Reason Together, Please: Mark Galli, the editor of Christianity Today, offers this evaluation of the case of the Wheaton prof involving the hijab and whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. He itemizes eight complications and recommends a way for Christian universities to avoid polarization, gridlock, and outcomes that fall far short of […]
Faith Groups and Corporate Social Responsibility: an 8 min. video on the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of long-term stockholders who have used their influence as investors for decades, pressing major corporations to divest from apartheid South Africa, end human trafficking, abolish modern slavery, and support human rights. Students in business, economics, […]
Pharmacists to Supreme Court: Protect our religious conscience: A family-owned pharmacy and two female pharmacists asked the U.S. Supreme Court today to stop a new Washington State law that would force them to sell abortion-inducing drugs in violation of their religious beliefs.
George Yancey: From Racial to Religious Bias — This 10 item Q&A from George Yancey (So Many Christians, So Few Lions, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) provides a starter piece for students on why academia and pop culture recognize some forms of bias and are blind to others. WM: Many secularists want to exclude Christians from the public […]
Religious Health Care Ministries Show Growth: The Wall Street Journal reports that the number of participants in religious health-sharing arrangements has grown from 200,000 to 500,000 since 2010 and after enactment of the ACA. According to the report, gov’t officials are concerned both about the risk to participants from the unregulated operation of the arrangements, and about their impact […]
“Concussion” Makes a Christian Argument Against Football: Students across several areas of study and interest may find the arguments within and about this film worth exploring. “The movie’s moral arguments are framed less as matters of medicine than of religious faith. It’s not a sports movie, or a medical thriller, so much as a Christian […]
This non-technical treatment of the biology of asexuality–Virgin Births Happen All the Time–can be used to introduce parthenogenesis, and it can also be used to explore themes in creation, the Deus absconditus, and the relationship of the spiritual and the material. “I don’t want to make a direct line. But might it add to our […]
From Religion Clause: “My nomination for [the sleeper issue to emerge] in 2016 is the question of whether the retirement plans of many religiously-affiliated healthcare organizations will, as the 3rd Circuit recently held, be found not to qualify for the ‘church plan’ exemption from ERISA on which they have relied. Many of these plans will be […]
