Wednesday, May 23, 2018

PART I After Supreme Court ruling on sports betting, groups look to cash in on potential windfall

PART II Why a certain brand of feminist ideology won’t be satisfied by anything less than a comprehensive victory

PART III Secularism and the new understanding of human rights: Why human dignity must be rooted in concrete, objective truth

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

PART I With a wink and a nod, Pope Francis’ reported comments signal new level of acceptance of homosexuality

PART II How are evangelical Christian to think about homosexuality and sexual orientation?

PART III Why an unborn child shouldn’t be recognized as an unborn child only when that unborn child is wanted by his or her parents

Monday, May 21, 2018

PART I Why a sane society cannot ‘throw their hands up’ after another school shooting, this time in Texas

PART II Prayer is at the center of the conversation after shooting in community that has famously fought for their right to pray

PART III Monarchy in the modern age: The societal and moral shift reflected in the royal wedding

Friday, May 18, 2018

PART I Questions of morality, truth, and spycraft raised as Haspel is confirmed as CIA director

PART II The reality of morality: Is there such a thing as absolute right or wrong?

PART III What do spiralizers, kale leaf strippers, and avocado slicers tell us about the world in which we live?

Thursday, May 17, 2018

PART I Why the worldview displayed at life’s most crucial moments is going to be theological in one way or another

PART II Theism vs. secularism at the point of death: Why Christianity has historically frowned upon cremation

PART III The inevitable embrace of abortion as a new generation moves in a more secular direction

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

PART I Why the reality of implicit racial bias is even more true than the secular world can grasp

PART II Understanding the inevitable implicit bias in tests for implicit bias

PART III The ad-hoc nature of meaning in a secular age as seen in the wedding announcements of the New York Times

PART IV Why is the popularity of biblical names declining for girls but not for boys?

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