Podcast Transcript 1) Explosive growth of Islam in US indicator of vast change in Christian mission field A New Mosque Rises—in Alaska, Wall Street Journal (Tamara Audi) Imam Shortage Crimps U.S. Mosques, Wall Street Journal (Tamara Audi) ...
Podcast Transcript 1) Tennessee judge breaks trend by upholding state’s same sex marriage ban Tennessee judge breaks gay marriage’s streak, The Hill (Mario Trujillo) Court Upholds Same-Sex Marriage Ban as Constitutional in Startling Reversal ...
Podcast Transcript 1) Where is outrage in the Muslim world over atrocities in Iraq? Vatican calls on Muslim leaders to condemn Christian persecution in Iraq, The Guardian (John Hooper) Where is Muslim outrage?, Washington Times (Editorial Bo ...
Podcast Transcript 1) Response to Robin Williams’s death reveals how closely Americans identify with entertainers Robin Williams dies in apparent suicide; actor, comic was 63, Los Angeles Times (Ryan Parker, Steven Zeitchik, and Lauren Raab) ...
Podcast Transcript 1) Centrality of US to world politics a temporary stewardship We may not like it, but Isis and Iraq remind us that we need America to be the world’s policeman, The Telegraph (Dan Hodges) 2) James Brady’s death ruled homic ...
Podcast Transcript 1) Genocide and persecution in Iraq rightly causes Pres. Obama to authorize air strikes Obama Authorizes Iraq Air Strikes Amid Genocide Threat, Bloomberg Businessweek (Margaret Talev, Terry Atlas, and Toy Capaccio) Christi ...
In an ominous development Wednesday night, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its highest level alert for a response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, even as reports came in indicating that the crisis may now not be limited to W ...
Podcast Transcript 1) Treatment of Ebola brings a morality of personal autonomy into conflict with a plague CDC issues highest-level alert for Ebola, USA Today (Doug Stanglin) Ebola, research ethics, and the ZMapp serum, Washington Post (Lau ...
Podcast Transcript 1) Federal circuit courts begin considering state same sex marriage bans Gay Marriage Arguments Are Flooding Federal Courts, Huffington Post (Amanda Lee Myers) 2) Vast shifts in social values a massive missiological challe ...
Podcast Transcript 1) Cohabitation has become replacement for marriage in a massive moral shift Moving In and Moving On, Family Studies (Scott Stanley) Trends in Cohabitation Outcomes: Compositional Changes and Engagement Among Never-Married ...