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The Becket Fund has launched a site for understanding the various RFRA laws, cases, and issues. The site represents the Becket Fund’s views and case load with attention to religious minorities such as Native Americans, Sikhs, Muslims and Buddhists. Students can examine the contents, pro and con, for perspective and case studies.
Students and instructors can examine these views, recommendations, and the framing of topics as a way to assess–pro and con–many of the transgender issues. The author, Austen Hartke, is a graduate of Luther Seminary’s Master of Arts program and a writer, speaker, and creator of the YouTube series Transgender and Christian, “which seeks to understand and […]
States plan renewed debate on LGBT rights, religious freedom: With same-sex marriage now legal nationwide, lawmakers in numerous states are preparing for a new round of battles in 2016 over whether to grant discrimination protections to LGBT people or religious exemptions to nonprofits and businesses that object to gay marriage.
Chance to get ID cards draws hundreds to Winston-Salem event: The Forsyth County, NC, Sheriff’s Office, Winston-Salem Police Department and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s Division of Faith and Health Ministries have asked the local social ministry group, FaithAction,to provide an ID card service in Winston-Salem. “This is a local answer to a national issue — a broken […]
An Open Mind? — Do the wonders described by contemporary neuroscience require us to affirm a radical materialist conception of human nature? The question is not whether neuroscience offers exciting new evidence about human behavior. Rather, it is how we interpret the evidence. Students can use this essay to examine the perennial mind/body question and […]
Let Us Reason Together, Please: Mark Galli, the editor of Christianity Today, offers this evaluation of the case of the Wheaton prof involving the hijab and whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. He itemizes eight complications and recommends a way for Christian universities to avoid polarization, gridlock, and outcomes that fall far short of […]
Faith Groups and Corporate Social Responsibility: an 8 min. video on the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of long-term stockholders who have used their influence as investors for decades, pressing major corporations to divest from apartheid South Africa, end human trafficking, abolish modern slavery, and support human rights. Students in business, economics, […]
Pharmacists to Supreme Court: Protect our religious conscience: A family-owned pharmacy and two female pharmacists asked the U.S. Supreme Court today to stop a new Washington State law that would force them to sell abortion-inducing drugs in violation of their religious beliefs.
George Yancey: From Racial to Religious Bias — This 10 item Q&A from George Yancey (So Many Christians, So Few Lions, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) provides a starter piece for students on why academia and pop culture recognize some forms of bias and are blind to others. WM: Many secularists want to exclude Christians from the public […]
Religious Health Care Ministries Show Growth: The Wall Street Journal reports that the number of participants in religious health-sharing arrangements has grown from 200,000 to 500,000 since 2010 and after enactment of the ACA. According to the report, gov’t officials are concerned both about the risk to participants from the unregulated operation of the arrangements, and about their impact […]
