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NY Times Op-Ed: ‘Why Does God Keep Making Poets?’
New York Times Op-Ed: ‘Why Does God Keep Making Poets?,’ by Tish Harrison Warren (Priest, Anglican Church; Author, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep (2021) (Christianity Today's 2022 Book of the Year)): In the heat of the summer, this slow curve of the midyear, I find myself wanting to pause and catch my…
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NY Times Op-Ed: ‘The Bear’ And Our Need To Belong
New York Times Op-Ed: ‘The Bear’ and the Need for a Place to Belong, by David French (Author, Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation (2020)): Every now and then, a fictional character can have a profound real-world impact. I’m thinking, for example, of Jason Sudeikis’s Ted Lasso in 2020.…
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Gallup: Americans’ Belief In God Falls To New Low: 74%, Down From 79% In 2016 And 90% In 2004
Gallup, Belief in Five Spiritual Entities Edges Down to New Lows:
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Praying For The Bar Exam
On Friday, I participated in one of my favorite traditions at Pepperdine Caruso Law: a virtual prayer session with our graduates taking the bar exam this week: Faculty and staff encourage our graduates to finish strong and remind them that their three years of study have prepared them well for this challenge. I have the…
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NY Times Op-Ed: The Biggest Threat To The Church Is The New Christian Right
New York Times Op-Ed: Who Truly Threatens the Church?, by David French (Author, Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation (2020)): There’s a popular story in Christian circles that’s literally too good to be true. According to legend, in the early 1900s, The Times of London sent an inquiry to a number…
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NY Times Op-Ed: Why We Shouldn’t Lose Faith In Organized Religion
New York Times Op-Ed: Why We Shouldn’t Lose Faith in Organized Religion, by Tish Harrison Warren (Priest, Anglican Church; Author, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep (2021) (Christianity Today's 2022 Book of the Year)): Eboo Patel wants to tell a better story about religion in America. Patel, an American Muslim and founder and…
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NY Times 5-Part Series: Americans Are Moving Away From Organized Religion
Five New York Times op-eds by Jessica Grose: 1. Lots of Americans Are Losing Their Religion. Have You? (Apr. 19, 2023): In their forthcoming book, “Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society,” the sociologists Isabella Kasselstrand, Phil Zuckerman and Ryan Cragun describe a change in the built environment of St. Louis that is “emblematic” of the ebb…
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Marianist Law Schools: Demonstrating The Courage To Be Catholic
David A. Grenardo (St. Thomas-MN), Marianist Law Schools: Demonstrating the Courage to be Catholic, 60 J. Cath. Leg. Stud. 1 (2022): Only two Marianist law schools exist in the United States. Both University of Dayton School of Law (UDSL) and St. Mary’s University School of Law (St. Mary’s Law School) proudly embrace their Catholic and…
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Inazu: Reflections On Mortality — Does Christianity Matter?
John Inazu (Washington University; Google Scholar), Reflections on Mortality: Does Christianity Matter?: Last month, Interfaith America and The Carver Project cohosted the first cohort of the Newbigin Fellows for a three-day conference in St. Louis. Our gathering included a public dialogue titled, “Reflections on Morality: Does Christianity Matter?” I moderated discussion between three of the fellows serving as…
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NY Times Op-Ed: Sabbaticals Shouldn’t Be Just For Professors And Clergy
New York Times Op-Ed: Can Everyone Take a Sabbatical?, by Tish Harrison Warren (Priest, Anglican Church; Author, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep (2021) (Christianity Today's 2022 Book of the Year)): Every year around this time, when my kids are on summer break, I begin to fantasize about what I might do if I…
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Pope Francis Releases AI Ethics Handbook
The Week, Pope Francis Releases a Comprehensive Guidebook on AI Ethics: Pope Francis, in collaboration with Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, has released a comprehensive guidebook titled Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap. This handbook addresses the ethical challenges associated with emerging technologies, with a particular focus on…
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Taha: Reducing The Costs Of Zakāt
Ahmed E. Taha (Pepperdine; Google Scholar), Reducing the Costs of Zakāt, 41 Va. Tax Rev. 289 (2022): Recently there has been increased interest in wealth taxes, which tax the value of personal assets. Although wealth taxes have advantages relative to income taxes, wealth taxes also can create problematic administrative and compliance issues. This article examines…
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NY Times Op-Ed: Frederick Douglass Knew What False Patriotism Was, Especially On The 4th Of July
New York Times Op-Ed: Frederick Douglass Knew What False Patriotism Was, by Esau McCaulley (Wheaton; Author, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope (2020)): In 1852 Frederick Douglass delivered what may be his most famous address, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” This time of year, quotations from…
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WSJ Op-Ed: Christians Err If They Give Up On America, Especially On The 4th Of July
Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Christians Err if They Give Up on America, by D.G. Hart (Hillsdale College; Author, From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism (2011)): American Christians sometimes do unusual things in pursuit of patriotism. … In certain sectors of the Christian world, such patriotic excess is in marked decline.…
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The Bible Does Everything Critical Theory Does, But Better
Christianity Today, The Bible Does Everything Critical Theory Does, but Better: Many people become suspicious at the mention of critical theory, especially as it applies to controversial matters of race, gender, law, and public policy. Some see the ideologies traveling under that banner as abstruse frameworks only minimally related to real-world affairs. Others see critical…
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A Christian Case For Racial Reparations
Daniel Philpott (Notre Dame; Google Scholar), A Christian Case for Racial Reparations: National healing for the persistent wounds of racism, America’s original sin, can be advanced through a national apology, reparations and forgiveness. The frequent practice of apologies and reparations around the world in the past generation provide precedent for such measures. Christianity’s teaching of…
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Mayer & Pohlman: What Is Caesar’s, What Is God’s — Fundamental Public Policy For Churches
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer (Notre Dame; Google Scholar) & Zachary Pohlman (J.D. 2021, Notre Dame), What Is Caesar's, What is God's: Fundamental Public Policy for Churches, 44 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 145 (2021): Bob Jones University v. United States is a highly debated Supreme Court decision, both regarding whether it was correct and what exactly…
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NY Times Op-Ed: ‘You Can’t Protect Some Life And Not Others’
New York Times Op-Ed: ‘You Can’t Protect Some Life and Not Others,’ by Tish Harrison Warren (Priest, Anglican Church; Author, Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep (2021) (Christianity Today's 2022 Book of the Year)): With over a year to go until the presidential election, I am already dreading what this next political season…
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NY Times Op-Ed: The Importance Of Hope In The Pro-Life Movement
New York Times Op-Ed: The Importance of Hope in the Pro-Life Movement, by David French (Author, Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation (2020)): No president saw sharper decreases in the abortion rate and ratio from the first to the last year of his presidency than Barack Obama. In 2016,…
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Michael McConnell And Marcus Cole Receive Religious Liberty Awards
Michael W. McConnell (Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law and Director of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford) and Marcus Cole (Joseph A. Matson Dean and Professor of Law, Notre Dame) were honored last month at Becket's annual gala in New York City for their work defending religious liberty. Michael McConnell received the 2023 Canterbury…
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NY Times Op-Ed: My Father Failed Me. Here’s How I Learned To Forgive Him.
New York Times Op-Ed: My Father Failed Me. Here’s How I Learned to Forgive Him., by Esau McCaulley (Wheaton; Author, Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal (2022)): AI do not recall giving a single Father’s Day present. There were no cards hastily scribbled on colored paper during elementary school art class. My dad never…
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NY Times Op-Ed: My Church Was Part Of The Slave Trade. This Has Not Shaken My Faith.
New York Times Op-Ed: My Church Was Part of the Slave Trade. This Has Not Shaken My Faith., by Rachel L. Swarns (Author, The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church (2023)): For more than a century, Catholic priests in Maryland held Black people in bondage. They were…
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National Review Father’s Day Issue: Why We Need Men, And How To Make Them
National Review Father's Day Issue, Why We Need Men, and How to Make Them: Robert P. George (McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University; Nootbaar Honorary Distinguished Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso Law School; Google Scholar), Running into the Fire: That's What Men Do: When I was twelve years old, I watched my father rush into…
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Oklahoma Women’s College World Series Champions Say They Play For A Higher Purpose
New York Times, Oklahoma Softball Caps Banner Season With 3rd Straight Title: The Sooners became only the second team to claim three straight Division I softball titles and did so by ending the season on a record 53-game winning streak. Catholic News Agency, Oklahoma Women’s College World Series Champions Say They Find Their Joy in…