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Why I’m Not a Conscientious Objector is another installment in the CT series on Christians and service in the armed forces. This first-person account explores the writer’s tension as he explores an Anabaptist community opposed to such service and his participation in Centurions’ Guild, a group of veterans and service members that helps Christian communities have […]
An empirical analysis of emotional language in legal briefs before the Supreme Court: Supreme Court opinions employ controversial emotional language aimed to tug at the heart strings and to provoke ire, yet the Justices counsel lawyers to avoid such emotional language. “Our model predicts a 0.61 probability that the petitioner wins a Justice’s vote when […]
In this assessment of ethical theory in current bioethics, David S. Oderberg, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK, discusses six current confusions and errors in agenda-driven bioethics studies and reports: “You could say they misunderstand the function of argument, which is to get to the truth, not to advance a previously-adopted policy.” […]
The ADF has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court behalf of a Trinity Lutheran Church’s Child Learning Center, Columbia, MO, which was denied access to a state program that provides recycled tires to surface children’s playgrounds. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upheld a federal court’s decision that ruled the state was justified in […]
Officials closed all schools in Augusta County, VA, as a safety precaution when parents were distressed by a world geography assignment from the schools’ standard textbook in world religions. The assignment:”Here is the shahada, the Islamic statement of faith, written in Arabic. In the space below, try copying it by hand. This should give you […]
An applicant for an adjunct professor job claims in a lawsuit that a small private Christian liberal arts college discriminated against him by refusing to hire him because he’s Jewish. The suit says the college did not state in its job posting that being a Christian was required or that hiring would be predicated on practicing the […]
Do Christians And Muslims Worship The Same God? and Round-Table Discussion. These two audio clips follow up on the Wheaton College soc prof situation and to what extent Christians may identify with the convictions of other religions. The round-table discussion is 6 min. and can help students begin to make some distinctions that avoid the usual […]
In what may be the first in a series of test cases, a MA state judge has ruled that a Catholic school discriminated against a gay man when it rescinded a job offer after learning he was in a same-sex marriage. Judge Wilkins said Fontbonne Catholic School could claim a religious exemption to the state anti-discrimination law […]
Captured on Canvas, a reflection on two paintings for Advent at the National Gallery, is an essay that students may consider about the link between visual allegory and our liturgical allegory of God’s real intervention in history: ” If it is Christmas we are celebrating, then we have left the realm of allegory far behind.”
How secular Americans are reshaping funeral rituals: Students can examine the trend toward cremation as a pattern in sociology, business, religion, family studies, ritual expression, and psychology. According to estimates by the funeral industry’s main trade group, 2015 is on track to be the year that cremation surpasses burial for the first time, as a long-standing […]
