Biola University and Grace College of Indiana Sue Federal Government
The two evangelical college sue the federal government over the contraceptive mandate
Biola University and Grace College of Indiana on Thursday filed suit against the Obama administration and its contraceptive mandate. Now eleven colleges and universities have sued the federal government over the issue, including major schools like Wheaton College, the University of Notre Dame, and Catholic University. The federal government is facing 25 lawsuits across the... Continue Reading
Love Your Neighbor. Get Your Vaccines.
How getting routine shots benefits not just you but your entire community.
I’m concerned that so many people seem willing to let others carry the supposed burden of vaccination so that they don’t have to. To me, that’s a failure of the commandment to love our neighbors: our infant neighbors, our elderly neighbors, and our immune-compromised neighbors. That’s a disease of the soul for which the only treatment is love—best shown in the God who became man to bear our infirmities in his own body.
Obamacare Begins Child Sterilization, Without Parental Consent
Scandalous provision quietly takes effect in Oregon.
So you need parental consent to contract a state-sanctioned marriage under the age of 18 in the U.S., but you, all by yourself, can give full consent to the irreversibility of sterilization at 15? Chances are, you do not even know your future spouse, yet you're already determining his or her fate as well?
Real Policy vs. Realpolitik
U.S. foreign policy should put ideals over ideas
We also neglect the theological doctrines that once breathed life into our democratic capitalistic system. Consider the incarnation, God born of a woman into political chaos and socioeconomic oppression. The incarnation of Jesus gives us hope in every possible circumstance, but guards us against false hope and utopian promises. I like the way Novak phrases it: "One of the most poignant lessons of the Incarnation is the difficult teaching that one must learn to be humble, think concretely, face facts, train oneself to realism."
Male and Female — Incomprehensible?
Language is changing the way culture looks at sexuality
The sharp contours of our future are coming into focus—a future inhospitable to Christian truth. The literature and language of the two-thousand-year-old “Christian” civilization, which assumed the normative male/female distinctions, will become homophobically unspeakable, culturally silenced and legally prohibited. Hakuna Matata, “don’t worry”: same-sex marriage will not harm ordinary marriage. But way back... Continue Reading
Keeping the Faith on Campus: Students at Secular Schools Face More Than Academic Challenges
New students facing challenges and temptations as they enter college.
Robinson felt like he was floating in a pool of secularism. After struggling to resist the culture around him, he finally had what he described as a “religious breakdown.” “I called home and told my mom I thought I was losing Jesus,” he said. (WNS) — Shaquille Robinson grew up in a strong Christian... Continue Reading
Is It OK for a Christian to vote for Mitt Romney?
Why [are] people who have been theocratic Reconstructionists for longer than some of these guys have been alive…willing to support him now?
Yet, who cares? Let’s stay home and let the country burn to the ground. Let’s stay home and not vote, trusting like fools that King Jesus will actually honor our manipulations and do a miracle for us. No guys. I don’t think Jesus likes being manipulated.
Is It True Jesus Never Addressed Same Sex Marriage?
The gospel changes us so that now we are enabled to do not what we want, but what God wants.
Listen to these tender words of the Savior, “Come to me all who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” This is the hope that is found in Jesus. This is the hope found in the gospel. Whether one is guilty of heterosexual or homosexual sin, one will find grace, forgiveness and freedom at the foot of the cross where the ground is always level.
Education’s effect on religion
The single most important factor regarding belief change was religious practice as an teenager:
As so often happens, truth is stranger than fiction. While thinkers from the Enlightenment onwards expected education to cause a decrease in religion, history and science have told a much more complex story. Such thinkers may not like the results of Hill’s empirical study, but what can they do? After all, they’re the ones who claim to trust science.
Sex in movies influences teens’ behavior, study confirms
"All of the camera angles and multiple scene changes and special effects are almost like an unfair advantage influencing the lives of children"
Exposure to sexual content in movies leads teenagers to have sex earlier and to participate in riskier sexual behavior, a study has confirmed, leading researchers to suggest incorporating media literacy training into sexual education.
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