From the GetReligion posts on religion and news stories: In Story 1, the AP reports on a state legislator’s bill to remove gov’t interest from marriage. In Story 2, Cosmo has a piece on the marry yourself movement. For a third account of peculiar social trends related to marriage–but in the time of the Reformation–see […]
Radio Lab on Blood: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life” (Lev. 17:11). This 1 hr. program offers a variety of vignettes on blood with […]
Arthur Leff’s God-Haunted World: Without God, meaningful law becomes impossible. One powerful argument for this view comes from a surprising source—an atheistic law professor writing in the Duke Law Journal. Yale Law School professor, Arthur Leff, argued that unless God is taken to be the moral authority behind human law, the law collapses into various arbitrary arrangements, […]
