Anabaptist in America: This set of photographs portrays Anabaptist life in Lancaster, PA. The photos have no captions and invite students to an exploration of Menno Simons’ (1496-1561) reformation themes in the Low countries as well as Amish piety and the works of Swiss Anabaptist Jakob Ammann (b. 1644). Their understanding of the two kingdoms […]
Betsy DeVos’s Misunderstood Alma Mater: Calvin College is no fundamentalist Christian school — Students can use this profile of Calvin College to compare their own campus and perceptions, and how their friends perceive Christian higher education. “Calvin is a school that has produced both DeVos and Paul Schrader, the writer behind both Taxi Driver and […]
Concordia Journal, Winter/Spring 2017: Five feature articles on key Ref 500 themes and topics including “Luther, Learning, and Reformation: a Look at Then with Some Thoughts for Now” by Robert Rosin: “Without the ‘New Learning’ as the liberal arts revival was called, Luther’s Reformation simply would not have happened.”
Is It Time for Evangelicals to Strategically Withdraw from the Culture? For a few years, Rod Dreher has been exploring the idea of the local congregation stepping out of culture stream. He is not proposing a new monasticism–but some are not sure precisely what the implications are of such a withdrawal. Here is a four-part […]
Catholic High School Loses Ministerial Exception Defense In Suit By Former Teacher: This case may serve as an example of how the Hosanna-Tabor Supreme Court Decision is being understood or not understood at the local level. The Monrovia Patch reports that a California state trial court has rejected the ministerial exception defense raised by a Glendora, California […]
Religious Coalitions Take Contrasting Positions As Amici In Transgender Bathroom Case: Broad coalitions of religious groups have, through amicus briefs, now weighed in on opposite sides of the battle over transgender rights and Title IX that will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 28 in Gloucester County School Board v. G.G.(SCOTUSblog case page). See links […]
Religions must speak to the faithless, as well as to each other: This brief essay can assist students with considering the current challenges both of religions explaining themselves to each other as well as to a parallel world that has no religious language or concepts.
Communal Living and its Discontents: This first-person and review essay can help introduce students to the utopia movement and includes discussion of Christian communal living. The piece also serves as a reflection on biblical anthropology and human nature. Another piece on Christian communities can be found at GetReligion: The Wall Street Journal explores trends in Christian […]
Christian Women Writers of the Medieval World: Meet the first known dramatist of Christianity, the most famous female exegete of the nature of the Trinity, the author of the earliest known autobiography in English, and three more fascinating contributors to the life and mind of the medieval church. And Joan of Arc is not even mentioned! […]
