Did Richard Dawkins Hand Creationists (sic) Their Next School Strategy? This position piece re-examines Kitzmiller v. Dover, an important court case that involves issues and unresolved questions about jurisprudence, science, and religion. The case and article may serve as an intro for the larger topic or selected themes.
Critical issues facing Lutheran schools in today’s political landscape: This two-part audio program focuses on the impact of religious liberty and civil rights disputes on Lutheran elementary and secondary schools. Topics included Title IX implications, Title VII employment discrimination issues and on accepting state and federal dollars and the implications.
Faith in translation: The gospel as a second language — Students in writing, communication, language, and the letters can consider that a fast-growing number of people do not have a religious first language. And many churches don’t seem eager to learn how to connect with them—how to teach Christianity as a second language as well as […]
Gallup Moral Issues 2016 : With the exception of same-sex relations, public opinion on most of the usual moral issues has been fairly stable since 2001, when Gallup first began asking Americans annually about the moral acceptability of a range of social policy issues. See Gallup Moral Issues 2016.
Noted physicist says string theory suggests we’re all living in God’s matrix: Theoretical physicist, futurist, and bestselling author Michio Kaku has developed a theory that points to the existence of God using string theory. “It is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence […]
Generally Applicable Law & the Free Exercise of Religion: (one download allowed) Exempting secular but not religious activities that undermine alleged government interests deprives religious minorities of vicarious political protection and demonstrates a forbidden value judgment: the exempted secular activities are more valuable, more deserving of legal protection, than the unexempted exercise of religion. In the […]
The Parable of the Talents: (one download allowed) To the legal mind, the Parable thus raises some interesting questions: What was the relationship between the master and the servant? What were the servants’ duties? How do the likely answers to those questions map to modern relations, such as those of principal and agent? Curiously, however, there […]
The Tech-Christian Apologoist Who Demolished Gawker: This column offers a profile of Pay-Pal billionaire Peter Thiel that students can assess for point-of-view, gay activism, money and power, and personal agendas. “In coverage of the Hulk Hogan business, Thiel’s Christianity has mostly been a bemused sidenote. But Thiel’s statements about faith illustrate the way that techno-utopianism […]
New Physics Beyond The Higgs? — When do scientists declare that something is “real”? that is, that something belongs to the collection of other particles we have found so far that make up all the material diversity we see? The Large Haldron Collider compiles and analyzes data it generates, then interpret the whole thing takes not just […]
Full Faith and Credit: Christian Groups Unite Against Predatory Lending — A diverse coalition of Christians that unites conservative churches with liberal ones opposes predatory lending. One of these umbrella campaigns, Faith for Just Lending, includes, among others, groups of black Baptists and Latino evangelicals, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Salvation Army, […]
