by Guy Sayles | Feb 23, 2016 | Opinion
How can Christian ethics guide our engagement with U.S. culture? That is the question my students and I are exploring together this semester, seeking the ways in which various approaches to Christian ethics conflict and converge with the values of U.S. culture or...
by Joe LaGuardia | Feb 23, 2016 | Opinion
Every election year, we see the influence of a demographic voting block, often pitched as a uniform and monolithic movement, called “evangelicalism.” Evangelicalism, a loosely defined subculture in American Christianity, rose to political prominence under...
by Simon Jones | Feb 23, 2016 | Opinion
I have been visiting regularly the refugee camp in Calais, France, which increasingly looks like a suburb of the city. The so-called “jungle” is home to a group of friends struggling to hold their lives together in the teeth of sometimes the indifference...
by James Gordon | Feb 22, 2016 | Opinion
You could be forgiven for thinking that the late poet R.S. Thomas was a Luddite, a hater of technology and the mechanization of life. The machine is manufactured, and Thomas, who died in September 2000 at the age of 87, was deeply fearful of what “man”...
by Greg Mamula | Feb 22, 2016 | Opinion
I have heard pediatricians spend as much of their time reassuring nervous parents as they do treating the sick child. The same can be said about parents of students who worry over their children’s choices, salvation, church attendance, Bible knowledge and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 20, 2016 | Opinion
SAPIENS, an online journal of anthropology, marked the season of valentines with an article noting that less than half of the world’s cultures practice romantic kissing. The rest think it’s gross. “The Half the World That Doesn’t Make...
