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From the NYT, “As Transgender Students Make Gains, Schools Hesitate at Bathrooms,” and from the ADF, “The Pressure to Unlock Restroom Doors” — these two pieces will assist with an assessment of the issue and different perspectives on this example of the culture shifts.
The Geo Grooup, Inc., a private prison and detention business, has been hired by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold Central American immigrant families seeking asylum. The work involves electronic monitoring, explaining immigrants’ legal rights and the asylum process, and helping enroll their kids in school. This role traditionally has been filled by […]
Mathematicians agree that we’ve only just begun to scratch the surface of understanding fractal geometry. You don’t have to look hard to notice aspects of nature that clearly don’t fit the Euclidean framework. Rivers, mountains, coastlines, lightning, our circulatory system: Where’s the symmetry and structure? Where’s the order? The answer, as mathematicians are discovering more and more […]
Luther scholar and microbiologist Alister McGrath writes, “Like It Or Not, We May Be ‘Meaning Junkies.’” Any philosophy of life or way of thinking about the questions that really matter will end up going beyond science. Why? Not because there is anything wrong with science. The point is that science works so well because it […]
This basic overview, “From Newton to Einstein: the origins of general relativity,” can introduce the non-science student to themes that every educated Christian should know. “To grasp the meaning and significance of general relativity, it is worth reflecting on the state of physics in the 19th century to see how Einstein came to realize that […]
A current example of schooling in church and state: America Magazine (from the Jesuits) presents this article on the dispute about vouchers, religious schools in Nevada, and the Blaine amendment. The voucher program is being challenged by American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State “on behalf of a group of […]
From the journal Current Biology this research continues the disputes about the relationship of religion and morality: “Parents in religious households reported that their children expressed more empathy and sensitivity for justice in everyday life than non-religious parents. However, religiousness was inversely predictive of children’s altruism and positively correlated with their punitive tendencies. Together these […]
The Katy, Texas, public-classroom dispute abut God between a teacher and a 12-year-old student serves as a case study on the challenge for journalists reporting on religion. On a critical-thinking test, the student declined to give the correct answer, which was that “There is a God” was a statement of opinion, not fact. Why is […]
No “Lions of Gory Mane” (Concordia Journal, Fall 2015): In 1522 Luther wrote, “It is the nature of the divine word to be heartily received by a few, but to be persecuted ruthlessly by many.” Today some voices in the United States are calling for American Christians to make a similar shift in their thinking. The church […]
A Theological and Journalistic Reformation: Martin Luther’s bold theological stand on Oct. 31, 1517, made independent journalism possible. Modern journalism began in 1517 as the German prince Frederick the Wise was putting the finishing touches on his life’s work of building up Wittenberg’s sacred relic collection. The effect of Luther’s 95 Theses and his subsequent publications […]
