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God May Forgive Ads That Offend, but Customers Probably Won’t: The advertising industry typically avoids religion, but some advertisers have made God or prayer a part of their campaigns, albeit very carefully. This high-risk, high-reward strategy, if done right, can inspire religious or spiritually minded consumers to act, but if done wrong, it can alienate an […]
From Ryan Anderson’s Witherspoon Public Discourse site, this legal opinion piece considers argues that same-sex marriage endangers not only religious liberty, but also the school choice movement. We need new laws to protect schools from being forced to adopt sexual orientation nondiscrimination policies in order to be eligible for voucher, tax credit/deduction, or educational savings […]
The GetReligion monitor site on news coverage of religion offers this overview of the case and how it has been reported. School officials at Castle Elementary School in Johnson County, KY, have edited the Luke nativity text out of the script of “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” This case may be of interest for courses in theater, […]
Wheaton College Suspends Hijab-Wearing Professor After ‘Same God’ Comment: Wheaton college has put on administrative leave a professor wearing a hijab to support Muslims — for her explanation, not the act. These links take you to the initial coverage from Christianity Today here and also here, the Chicago Tribune, and the Religion News Service. Students and […]
From KUOW.org in Seattle, this in-depth human-interest analysis can serve as a case study for issues of law and religion, adolescent age-of-consent, health care decisions, and similar two-kingdoms tensions. Dennis Lindberg was 14 when he was diagnosed with leukemia. He refused to received blood transfusions, which ultimately led to his death three weeks after he was […]
Unbelief As A Belief System: Core Tenet For Christians’ Fight For Religious Rights: This 6 min. audio clip from All Things Considered can serve as a brief intro to the discussion of whether current forms of secularism amount to another religion with its own set of faith convictions. For some additional brief reading, see Timothy […]
From the New York Times (picked up from The Column): More than two dozen religiously affiliated colleges and universities across the United States have received exemptions from the federal civil rights protections provided under Title IX since 2014, documents show, waivers that activists said allow them to discriminate against students and employees on the basis […]
Chaplains, produced by Martin Doblmeier (who also made the film Bonhoeffer), raises a fundamental issue for Christian chaplaincy: What is its ecclesiology? When a Catholic or Baptist serves as a chaplain for the U.S. military, he or she is a soldier no less than any other person wearing a uniform. Sure, the church ordains and […]
Why We Cannot Compromise — an essay on whether civil consensus is possible in some areas of cultural dissent: the West is increasingly incapable of engaging in true debate, achieving broad consensus, and reaching compromises about our most important controversies. Students in political science, theology, the social sciences, and communication can consider when discourse is possible […]
The Tradition Project: Through the project, the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s College aims to develop a broad and rich understanding of what tradition might continue to offer in cultivating virtuous, responsible, self-governing citizens. The project seeks to develop a broad understanding of what tradition might continue to offer for law, politics, and responsible […]
