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“Daniel Callahan on Communitarian Bioethics” is a mid-length interview with the founder of the Hastings Center, the leading study- and thinktank in bioethics. Students can gain a helpful survey of the field in this discussion. Callahan’s forthcoming books is Five Horsemen of the Modern World: Disease, Food, Water, Chronic Illness, Obesity (Columbia University Press, 2016)
The Becket Fund and other law firms and scholars came to the defense of Blaine Adamson, the owner of a small printing company, who has been ordered by the government to print shirts promoting a gay pride festival and to attend government-mandated “diversity training.” Among his supporters are LGBT-owned businesses such as BMP T-Shirts as […]
This human interest piece from The Daily Beast discusses a distressing case of child illness and likely death. Students will find interesting the case itself and the ethical issues–but also the writer’s characterization of religion, “heaven” put in quotation marks, and assertions about what is certain and what is not. Hebr. 11:1-3 comes to mind. […]
The news museum in Wash. DC, the Newseum Institute, and the libertarian organization, Spiked, sponsored a 1 hr. panel discussion on religion and free speech. The panel includes representatives from the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Secular Policy Institute, the Acton Institute, and an independent legal commentator. Students can consider the several views set out in this […]
Ben Zobrist is now the utility man who plays second base for the Kansas City Royals. The night before he first left home to join the Astros’ affiliate in Troy, N.Y., he told his father, “I’m going to be a missionary in the big leagues.” And so he has been, whether by organizing Bible studies with […]
In this essay, “Integrating Faith and Learning with the Trinity,” Mary Korte argues for a robust application of theology to the curriculum and presents a thorough discussion of such an application to the environmental sciences: “The goal at a Lutheran university should not be to integrate a generic spirituality, an inoffensive but vapid Christianity, or a […]
What might medieval Catholic poet Dante Alighieri teach Protestants today? Dante’s masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, has been rightly called “one of the essential books of mankind.” While The Divine Comedy most clearly reflects the Catholic faith of the poet and his medieval world, it hints at some principles the Reformation would bring to bear on the church two […]
OT scholar David Lamb notes that the Old Testament is full of sexual violence. We read of rapists, pimps, and other perpetrators of sexual exploitation. Every day we hear about sexual assaults on college campuses, in the military, and even in churches. Sadly, many of us are no longer shocked when we hear such horrific news. Stories […]
According to the new Pew Research Center report, the share of the public saying science and religion are often in conflict is up modestly from 55% in 2009, but the parsed results are mixed. People’s sense of conflict between religion and science has less to do with their own religious beliefs than it does with […]
The Weird and Wonderful Church Drawings of John Hendrix: This illustrator is reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch, the late-medieval painter best known for his busy allegorical visions of biblical scenes. But viewers this side of the Reformation will note that, unlike Bosch, Hendrix draws explicitly from the Word and words. Most of his sketches include passages of […]
