Tuesday, May 15, 2018

PART I U.S. embassy in Israel officially moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as protests erupt in Gaza

PART II Supreme Court rules that states are free to authorize sports betting in constitutionally sound but morally fraught decision

PART III Why it’s important to know that an asteroid’s near miss is no mere accident

Monday, May 14, 2018

PART I Senior Anglican clerics call for Church of England to be stripped of its legal right to operate according to its convictions

PART II With secularism on the rise, Quakers consider dropping God because it makes some ‘feel uncomfortable’

PART III How does a secular society create meaning in the face of death?

PART IV In the age of digital media, do we really have more friends?

Friday, May 11, 2018

PART I Mormons move to end relationship with Boy Scouts of America is about more than Mormons and Boy Scouts

PART II Why the grounding of life in human autonomy inevitably leads to a society that claims to author both birth and death

PART III When it comes to sex education, the big battle is not over sex, it’s over morality

Thursday, May 10, 2018

PART I Once the outlier in mainline protestantism’s leftward shift, United Methodist bishops propose plan opening door to LGBTQ inclusion

PART II In debate over LGBT issues, United Methodist Church redefines holiness

PART III Lessons from the Episcopal diocese of Washington D.C.: When you abandon the faith, people will abandon the church

PART IV In New Zealand, yet another example of theological compromise on the definition of marriage

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

PART I As U.S. withdraws from Iran nuclear deal and reinstates economic sanctions, Israel and Saudi Arabia celebrate

PART II Deal or no deal? Why the history of international agreements in the U.S. is marked by a partisan and worldview divide

PART III In anti-Semitic speech, Palestinian leader seeks to deny any claim by Jewish people of inheritance in the Holy Land

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

PART I Two hundred years after his birth, Karl Marx becomes cool once again despite the deadly consequences of his ideas

PART II A deadly legacy: How Marxism in its truest forms became a deadly ideology that led to human misery

PART III The theological dimensions of Marxism as understood in the four essential components of a biblical worldview

PART IV Why making bad ideas illegal makes even the worst ideas more popular

Monday, May 7, 2018

PART I After series of moves to the left, Boy Scouts officially drop the ‘boy’

PART II Amidst fast-paced moral revolution, few organizations have shifted as rapidly as the Boy Scouts

PART III Iowa adopts new pro-life legislation that will be very hard for the Supreme Court to ignore

PART IV In the face of opposition from tech companies, Kansas and Oklahoma adopt legislation protecting faith-based adoption agencies

Friday, May 4, 2018

PART I Examining the radical worldview and ideological imbalance on America’s college campuses

PART II Historic women’s colleges struggle to answer the question, ‘What is a woman?’

PART III MCAT changes highlight the transformation of medicine as a profession

Thursday, May 3, 2018

PART I Sexual liberation vs. the morality of consent: #MeToo feminists find themselves at odds with an earlier generation of feminists

PART II Why are many feminists so absolutely insistent on abortion as an essential human right?

PART III With urbanization on the rise, a very clear cultural and moral change comes with it

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

PART I Religious liberty is once again the loser amidst the secularization of western societies

PART II Why Artificial Intelligence is incapable of driving us toward a better system of morality

PART III Conscious machines, cruelty, and conventional morality: Confronting the ethics of HBO’s ‘Westworld’