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What Apple’s Encryption Fight Has to Do with Religious Freedom: Apple’s case reminds us of the broad importance of protecting organizations—both secular and religious, for-profit and non-profit—from compulsion to act against their most foundational values. These cases give us a chance to consider the public good of providing institutions—whether companies, niche craft stores, or religious nonprofits—with enough […]
Bible Colleges Lose Challenge To State Regulation: An Illinois federal district court rejected constitutional challenges by a group of Bible Colleges to three Illinois statutes that regulate institutions of higher education in the state. The statutes generally require approval by the state Board of Higher Education to operate a degree-granting college or grant degrees or certificates […]
Catholic School Principal’s Title VII Suit Dismissed Under “Ministerial Exception”: a New York federal district court held that the “ministerial exception” prevents a lay principal of a Catholic elementary school from suing for employment discrimination. The principal alleged that her employment was terminated as a result of gender discrimination and retaliation. In relying on the ministerial […]
Why Math Rocks: The natural sciences are about identifying patterns in nature that we then call “laws.” These laws have some form of mathematical expression (Newton’s laws of motion and gravity). Laws are so essential to our understanding of the universe that many scientists believe that math goes beyond human invention, being the fundamental language […]
‘Body Hacking’ Movement Rises Ahead Of Moral Answers: Body hackers view the world differently. They believe technology has reached a point where it can improve the human body instead of just fixing what’s broken. From pacemakers to color cameras for the brain of the color-blind, the goal is the human body augmented by devices. Students can […]
Survey: Americans Say Christians Face Intolerance, but Complain Too Much: 63 percent say Christians face increasing intolerance, up from half (50 percent) in 2013. A similar number (60 percent) say religious liberty is on the decline, up from just over half (54 percent) in 2013. Forty-three percent say American Christians complain too much about how they are treated, […]
From ‘Exodus’ to ‘God’s Not Dead 2’: The new wave of religious movies, explained — If there were a family tree for modern religious movies, the forefather would be Mel Gibson’s 2004 phenomenon “The Passion of the Christ.” Observers group these movies together. but the movies tend to fall into a handful of different camps. Some are […]
Here is Sojourners’ interview with the producer of The Story of God, the National Geographic six-week series hosted by Morgan Freeman. “The with this series was to go beyond the things that divide us and investigate the biggest questions — ones that unite the human experience.” The series dives deep into the big questions that cut […]
AAUP Slams Education Dept. and Colleges Over Title IX Enforcement: The U.S. Education Dept. and college administrators are fighting sexual harassment and assault on campuses in ways that trample faculty members’ rights to academic freedom, due process, and shared governance, the American Association of University Professors argues in a draft report released on Thursday. The report […]
Why All Christians Should Consider Civil Disobedience: The April 2016 cover story for Christianity Today explores the issue of when to say no to Caesar. Lutheran readers can further explore this issue in terms of the doctrine of the two kingdoms and the Reformers’ dealings with their regional princes, electors, and Rome.
