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Largest For-Profit Christian College to Open Seminary This Fall: GCU has announced that it will open an independent, non-denominational, for-profit theological seminary this fall.  It will also remain publicly traded after the HLC denied its plan for a parallel profit/non-profit corporation.

SOGI, Regulation, and Civil Recourse

Meet the unelected bodies chipping away at religious freedom: SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) commissions and regulators continue to receive attention, pro and con.  This World Mag article can be used as an intro for students.  (See also Liberty and SOGI Laws: An Impossible and Unsustainable Compromise.”)  A cursory search engine scan does’t immediately produce […]

Madison on Religious Liberty

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A Madisonian Vision of Religious Liberty: (Note–one free download) This essay summarizes Madison’s understanding of religious liberty, with specific reference to religious toleration, natural rights of conscience, religious exemptions in law, and establishments of religion. The essay draws attention to points of agreement and disagreement between Madison and John Locke.

Military Court Rules on RFRA Bible Verse Case

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Armed Forces Court of Appeals Interprets RFRA In Military Context: Two appeals judges ruled, “Appellant has failed to identify the sincerely held religious belief that made placing the signs important to her exercise of religion or how the removal of the signs substantially burdened her exercise of religion in some other way.”  The dissenting judge argues, […]

Christian MDs Position on Transgender Politics

Christian physicians join the emerging transgender debate: Veteran religion reporter Richard Ostling offers this coverage on the “Transgender Identification Ethics Statement”issued by the Christian Medical and Dental Associations.  The statement, approved at a CMDA conference April 21 but publicized only recently, urges doctors to treat these patients with understanding and grace. On the other hand, CMDA champions […]

Life on Other Planets and Theology

Natural Sciences

Life on Other Planets? What Does This Mean??? Concordia Sem Prof Charles Arand offers some observations and reflections on this intriguing topic about which Christians can agree and disagree.  The topic prompts helpful discussion on the biblical themes of creation, anthropology, and even soteriology.  Instructors in astronomy, earth science, science and society, faith and life, […]

Christian Colleges Applaud SB 1146 Amendments

All New Briefs, Social Sciences

State senator drops proposal that angered religious universities in California: [This series of events can serve as an instructive case study for classes in political science, church and state, sociology, and administration.] Faced with intense opposition from religious colleges in California, a state Senator said Wednesday he has decided to amend a bill by dropping a provision […]

Issues in Chr Educ: Religious Liberty

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Enlightenment Liberty vis a vis Christian Liberty: Those we teach often confuse and conflate Christian liberty with civil concepts of liberty.  And we read much today about religious liberty. In this edition of Issues, you will find ten discussions from a variety of perspectives to expand your own teaching repertoire on the freedom of the Christian, […]

France in Disarray

Social Sciences

Does French Culture Have a Future? This interview of Pierre Manent, former director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, was conducted by the newspaper Il Foglio in the wake of the ISIS murder of Fr. Jacques Hamel.  Students can weigh Manent’s position, pro and con, as an artifact in […]

 
 
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