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“Concussion” Makes a Christian Argument Against Football: Students across several areas of study and interest may find the arguments within and about this film worth exploring. “The movie’s moral arguments are framed less as matters of medicine than of religious faith. It’s not a sports movie, or a medical thriller, so much as a Christian […]
This non-technical treatment of the biology of asexuality–Virgin Births Happen All the Time–can be used to introduce parthenogenesis, and it can also be used to explore themes in creation, the Deus absconditus, and the relationship of the spiritual and the material. “I don’t want to make a direct line. But might it add to our […]
From Religion Clause: “My nomination for [the sleeper issue to emerge] in 2016 is the question of whether the retirement plans of many religiously-affiliated healthcare organizations will, as the 3rd Circuit recently held, be found not to qualify for the ‘church plan’ exemption from ERISA on which they have relied. Many of these plans will be […]
Yoshino on Obergefell v. Hodges: As part of the discussion of its implications for Christian higher education, debate continues on whether this Supreme Court decision is significant for more than its holding that same-sex marriage is a constitutionally protected right. In his Comment on Obergefell for Harvard Law Review’s annual Supreme Court issue, Kenji Yoshino argues […]
The Quietly Dangerous Suburban Church — How three architects in the 1950s tried to meld religion, modernism and suburbia: The marks of the church are word and sacraments (AC VII); thus, here is a study for the-spiritual-and-the-material, a key Reformation insight about the Gospel. To what extend are other spatial elements important and edifying? The 1950s and ’60s […]
How Sci-Fi and Fantasy Help Us Understand the Divine: this series of six articles explores ways that the literature of fantasy and sci-fi intersect with themes in the Bible and, more broadly, religion. Students may find much to agree and disagree with in what these writers propose.
Boston hospital expels doctor over LGBT views: After more than 10 years of tension and conflict over his hospital’s institutional endorsement of LGBT activities, urologist Paul Church lost his final appeal to the Board of Directors of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) to reconsider the hospital’s decision to expel him and terminate his medical […]
Expert Religion: The Politics of Religious Difference in an Age of Freedom and Terror — The American foreign policy establishment has a history of collaboration with scholars and experts across disciplines. In the context of the war on extremism, these partnerships are taking new forms. This essay examines the intersection between religion and global governance in an […]
The Artistry of Grace: The Lutheran tradition insists that the spiritual is not above the material. Dinesen’s stories all celebrate physicality as something deeply spiritual. “Babette’s Feast” does so in excelsis. In style it is stark but shining; in plot it is unpretentious—indeed nothing more than one long anecdote—but also a complex interweaving of characters and […]
Habit-Forming — Liturgies of Education: The liturgy is one of the Spirit’s instruments for shaping godly persons and communities, and the same is true in education. This 46 min. video from Peter Leithart will explore implications of this perspective and present examples of healthy and unhealthy educational rituals. Every educational model assumes an answer to the […]
