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Powerful ‘Gene Drive’ Can Quickly Change An Entire Species: Scientists have known for years how to genetically engineer living things. Sometimes, the genetic changes are passed down to offspring. A new technique called “gene drive” could make that happen almost every time. The advance is raising excitement about possible real-world uses, such as fighting diseases. But the approach […]
Americans’ faith in God may be eroding. This theme is considered again by the Pew Center: the vast majority of Americans still believe in God. But there are strong signs that many are less certain about this belief, and a small but growing minority of Americans say they do not believe in God at all. Perhaps […]
John Danforth, former senator and ambassador and an Episcopal priest, offers this essay that attends both to God’s left-hand and right-hand kingdoms: “What America needs is many more activists in politics—not activists who work for their own causes, but men and women who are committed to the higher calling of our republic, the fundamental and […]
“Give A Donation, Ask For Naming Rights” is a 4 min. audio clip that considers new trends and expectations in gifts, funding, and institutional advancement and identity. Joan Weill, wife of Citigroup billionaire Sandy Weill, announced a donation of $20 million to small Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondack Mountains with a string attached: She insisted that the […]
A steady stream of news stories has emerged over the past few years regarding the free speech of Christians on campuses. A simple Google search of student free speech news on their Web search page and their News search page will produce many case studies that students can sort and sift for issues in religious […]
Meet America’s Most Important Christian Writer. Thornton Wilder once wrote: “The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem – new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.” These overviews from The Dish and from First Things (The Craft of Christian Wiman) consider how Chris Wiman reflects the moment we’re living through as much as he […]
“Supreme Court faces new challenges to Obamacare’s ‘contraceptive mandate’” is a helpful update on the cases moving through the courts (such as Little Sisters of the Poor) regarding health insurance, contraceptives and abortion, the church, religious organizations, closely held corporations, and non-religious organizations with moral concerns about government policy. See also the National Catholic Register.
Elizabeth Corey, associate professor of political science and director of the Honors Program at Baylor University, offers this essay in which she argues that, “Within a Christian university, the legitimate goods of diversity must be balanced against a notion of unity, an idea of the particular ‘constitution’ of a place—its heritage, its tradition, and the constituency […]
One of Luther’s best known writings is, “Can Soldiers, Too, Be Saved?” This article, Ponder Christian Soldiers, commences a new online series that explores the world and faith concerns of Christians who serve in the military: “Pacifists, one the one hand, deny or downplay the impact that military service had on King David, Francis of […]
Nothing prepared the art world for “The 613,” the series of 613 paintings by Archie Rand completed in 2008, one for each Jewish commandment. No gallery or museum has shown them all. To do that, Mr. Rand had to put the paintings between the covers of a book. “The 613,” a wonderfully garish book with […]
