Chris Blattman: Let’s consider three ideas. First, breastfeeding reduces infant sickness and death in poor and tropical places, largely because it insulates the child from
A national conservative Christian group is calling on several Texas colleges and universities to drop or change their free speech and expression rules because they fear students who voice conservative political or religious views would be sanctioned.
You know that society is moving toward the acceptance of gay relationships when Joint Force Quarterly , a prestigious journal published by the National Defense University Press for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff gives the top prize in its 2009 essay contest to a systematic dissection of Don’t Ask. Don’t tell.
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has released a useful backgrounder on the role of faith groups in the increasingly bitter U.S. healthcare debate. The report focuses on the two large faith-based coalitions that have emerged on opposite sides of the political struggle to overhaul America’s system of healthcare, which is President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
The council had been divided into four standing committees (Administration & Finance (A&F), Congregations in Ministry (CIM), National Concerns (NAC) and International Concerns (INC)). At this meeting the members were asked to consider if that structure still serves the needs of the council and the church, and how to clarify their individual responsibilities.
From Henry Melchior Muhlenberg’s theological orientation and his realization that adaptation to a new American environment was essential if Lutheranism was ever to become a true ecclesia plantata emerged his ecclesiastical polity.
No Spanish Inquisition. No witch trials in Europe or Salem. No Catholic-Protestant struggle in Northern Ireland. But no Bach Cantatas or Mozart’s Requiem. No Gandhi. No Peace Prize for Desmond Tutu, and no Truth and Reconciliation Commission. No St. Francis. Readers – what would break your heart if we had no religion?