Christianity Today on the PP /CMP Case: Daniel K. Williams, a historian of the pro-life movement, and Focus on the Family president Jim Daly provide their perspectives on the ethics of the Planned Parenthood Fetal Tissue case. The articles link are Why Are Pro-Lifers Borrowing Pro-Choice Philosophy? and I Know Why the Government Went after Pro-Life […]
How the homeless population is changing: As the population ages, the homeless are getting older too, presenting societal challenges in the years ahead. In the early 1990s, 11 percent of the adult homeless population in the United States was aged 50 and over. It increased to 37 percent by 2003, and today half of America’s homeless […]
Digital warfare: RNS and PBS report anti-jihadi campaigns on social media — The real battlefront against ISIS and other terrorists is on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTubes–social media where jihadis are made and recruited. A corps of new warriors familiar with the terrain includes a West Point team (see this RNS coverage) in a contest for most effective online presence […]
Ariens Co. in Milwaukee has fired seven Muslim employees for taking unscheduled prayer breaks, and 14 others have resigned over the issue. The Muslim employees wanted management to continue a previous, more lenient practice of allowing them to leave their work stations at different times to pray as their faith requires of them. Ariens said it was […]
FDA Committee Cautiously Endorses MRT: An elite panel of scientists and bioethicists offered guarded approval of a form of genetic engineering that could prevent congenital diseases but would result in babies with genetic material from three parents. The committee concluded that it is ethically permissible to “go forward, but with caution” with mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRT). […]
Making the Garden: There is a necessary connection between God and architecture, and that this connection is, in part, empirically verifiable. Further, the sacredness of the physical world—and the potential of the physical world for sacredness—provides a powerful and surprising path towards understanding the existence of God. (An essay by Christopher Alexander, emeritus professor of architecture at UC, […]
ISIS has lost a lot of territory but that hasn’t translated into a loss of supporters. For classes in psychology, political science, marketing, history, and sociology: ISIS has become some sort of religious obligation. ISIS aims to be at the forefront of an end-of-days battle. It’s pitting its fighters against the West to establish a Muslim […]
Cornerstone University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goes Contemporary Worship–in Glass: For its newly constructed Christ Chapel, Cornerstone has commissioned four large contemporary stained glass windows from celebrated Danish painter and sculptor Peter Brandes. “They’re like alpha and beta in the Bible: they are the beginning of everything. I could go on and make any language with those colors.”
