Heroes and Heroines of Conscience: Mercantornet asked readers to nominate favorite books about heroes and heroines of conscience. Not surprisingly, Robert Bolt’s play about Thomas More got the most mentions. The list could present a course plan for a lit class or a program for a readers club. Might you include works on Eric Liddel or […]
Here’s how it works when a couple adopts through our Christian embryo bank: This brief article explains embryo adoption and the National Embryo Donation Center, a Christian IVF clinic. Also addressed her is the dilemma of what to do with the embryos that remain?
Alliance Defending Freedom v. Internal Revenue Service: Alliance Defending Freedom has asked a federal district court to order the Internal Revenue Service to identify records it has withheld for nearly two years that are related to secret procedures for investigating churches. The existence of the secret procedures became known through the agency’s settlement of an atheist […]
‘The Holy Bible’ Makes Library Association’s List Of Most ‘Challenged’ Books: The Holy Bible, along with several other books that incorporate aspects of religion, made the American Library Association’s list of top 10 most challenged books in 2015. At No. 6 on the list, the Bible was challenged for “religious viewpoints,” based mainly on the mistaken perception […]
What Christians Have in Common with LGBT Activists: In this 30 min. audio interview, Thomas Berg, a religious liberty scholar at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, shares his thoughts on legislative cultural and legal contexts, the significance of non-discrimination ordinances, why LGBT activists feel especially threatened by much of the recent legislation, and why he […]
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: In the literature emerging on one of the Radical Atheists, this review of a new book on Hitchens can alert students to the perplexities and complexities of very smart atheists who may or may not be as committed as they sound. “As Peter Hitchens once told me, the reason Christopher’s […]
Waiting Till the Wedding: Despite decades of statistics that link cohabitation to high rates of divorce and instability, the practice continues to grow and more are viewing it as a precursor to marriage. The majority of couples have now lived with a significant other before they wed. Nearly 7 in 10 teens, and almost half of […]
What Some Demographers are Studying Now: As marriage declines in popularity and other kinds of relationships replace it, a category of couple known as Living Apart Together is the focus of new research in the U.S. These LAT couples, whether opposite-sex or same-sex, say they are in a long-term relationship but do not live together.
Christian Therapists Push Back Against Tennessee Counseling Bill: There is significant opposition from the very group of Christian counselors this state bill aims to protect. Several Christian counseling networks and pastoral counselors in Tennessee claim such protections are unnecessary. Chris O’Rear, president of the Tennessee Association of Pastoral Therapists (TAPT), says he is not personally supportive of […]
Even conservatives can differ on religious freedom: Professor Robert George and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks discuss different perspectives on sustaining both religious freedom and civil rights and how the U.S. and Europe are not the same. “They both agree that freedom for any religion is best served by the generalised principle of freedom for all beliefs. But […]
