Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Derek Jeter’s Enduring Legacy
As the World Series comes to an end, and with it another post-season, there was one noticeable…
Good News for the Naked Public University
Recently, an academic administrator informed me that passing judgment on others’ sexual orientation or religious beliefs was…
The Problem of Self Loathing at Evangelical Colleges
When I was an undergraduate at an evangelical college in the Pacific Northwest, I encountered a unique…
Religion and Family Around the Globe
All the attention devoted to the first Roman Catholic Synod on the Family, which wraps up this…
Their Decadence and Ours
The last quarter of the nineteenth century saw movements calling themselves “decadent” in both England and France,…
The Story of Pastor Tom Clark
Pastor Tom Clark is dying. His esophageal cancer was diagnosed at the beginning of 2012, and after…
The New Focus on Children’s Rights
What do donor conception, surrogacy, divorce, and adoption have in common? According to the newly-founded International Children’s…
Mary on the Prairie
The city of Bismarck was founded in 1872 in what was then the Dakota Territory, at a…
The View on Waking
Melius enim iudicavit de malis benefacere, quam mala nulla esse permittere. —St. Augustine There is a kind…
Difficult Marriage in A Modern Age
In 1567, the famous reformer Pope Pius V condemned various propositions from the writings of a little…
Explosive Business in North Dakota
The “Official Portal for the North Dakota State Government” lists that commonwealth’s nicknames as the Peace Garden…
The Machine of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
What if someone had access to a mass-surveillance supercomputer that could predict not only acts of terror,…
Children Who Never Play
Students in my history of architecture course are amused to discover that the final exam offers a…
Theology Through Friendship
The recent death of Wolfhart Pannenberg prompted us to look through the long correspondence the German theologian…
A Theory for Tattoos
The motives for tattoos are many, but they all have a common subtext. A tattoo can mark…
