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Making the Garden: There is a necessary connection between God and architecture, and that this connection is, in part, empirically verifiable. Further, the sacredness of the physical world—and the potential of the physical world for sacredness—provides a powerful and surprising path towards understanding the existence of God. (An essay by Christopher Alexander, emeritus professor of architecture at UC, […]
ISIS has lost a lot of territory but that hasn’t translated into a loss of supporters. For classes in psychology, political science, marketing, history, and sociology: ISIS has become some sort of religious obligation. ISIS aims to be at the forefront of an end-of-days battle. It’s pitting its fighters against the West to establish a Muslim […]
Cornerstone University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goes Contemporary Worship–in Glass: For its newly constructed Christ Chapel, Cornerstone has commissioned four large contemporary stained glass windows from celebrated Danish painter and sculptor Peter Brandes. “They’re like alpha and beta in the Bible: they are the beginning of everything. I could go on and make any language with those colors.”
How to Make Liberal Democracy Safe for Religion: J. Judd Owen’s Making Religion Safe for Democracy challenges both secular and religious thinkers. As Owen argues, the ascendant form of philosophical liberalism, with its tenuous claims to be a space without any religious commitments, is “not well equipped to confront a world of resurgent religion, particularly […]
Suit Challenges High School History Unit On Islam: The parents of a high schooler filed suit in a Maryland federal district court this week alleging that a two-week unit on Islam in the La Plata High School 11th grade World History class unconstitutionally promoted Islam over Christianity and Judaism. This case is one among other challenges […]
The Search For The Oldest Life On Earth: This article begins a series by Marcelo Gleiser on “what we know of the complicated question of the origin of life on Earth — and the possibility of life elsewhere. There are three essential questions we may ask, none with a simple answer: When did life originate? […]
Why sportswriters keep ignoring this MLB pitcher’s Christian faith: Daniel Norris makes no secret of his Christian faith — no secret at all. So why do sportswriters — again and again and again — either totally ignore that aspect of Norris’ character or keep the nature of his faith vague? There’s a reason why “God” talk […]
Along the Edges of Faith: The Many Sectors of American Chaplains: Despite the formal separation of church and state in the United States, congressional and military chaplains are paid with public funds, as are prison chaplains. This article reviews a new documentary called “Chaplains: On the Front Lines of Faith” and discusses the perception and roles of the […]
The ADF has prepared a free 44 page guide that “any church or Christian organization can follow to prepare itself for potential legal action related to non-discrimination laws” and recommends: update the organization’s statement of faith on the issues of marriage, human sexuality, and gender; ensure that the organization’s facilities usage policies allow only uses […]
Americans may be getting less religious, but feelings of spirituality are on the rise: The growth of the unaffiliated population and their decreasing religiosity have been the main factors behind the emergence of a less religious public overall. But, interestingly, the rise in spirituality has been happening among both highly religious people and the religiously unaffiliated.
