ICYMI Thursday

What's Lost in Not Recognizing Campus Religious Groups. For The Atlantic, Karen Swallow Prior says that California State University's recent decision to strip InterVarsity Christian Fellowship chapters of their school affiliation undermines its ability to teach pluralism.

 

Celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson fabricated evidence?

 

Another challenge to life together in a multigenerational church: The Atlantic reports that younger adults tend to prefer aggressive, self-deprecating humor while older adults prefer “affiliative” humor.

 

This college biology teacher will tell your kids that they cannot successfully maintain their religious beliefs if they want to go into the field of biology. What are you doing to prepare your kids for him?

 

Wesley J. Smith: “Once a society determines that killing is an acceptable response to human suffering, there are virtually no limits to the kinds of suffering that qualify for killing.”

 

This will take an hour, but really remarkable stories from 3 Catholics processing their years of same-sex attraction and their return to grace and faithfulness: Desire of the Everlasting Hills

 

Religious liberty on the precipice. People are narrowly defining “religion” to be “what do you in the privacy of your home and church building” (and that second one is feeling the chill winds of coming restrictions). On that narrow definition, they say that the following story is not a “religious liberty” story. But the state forcing a Christian couple to host a same-sex ceremony = the state forcing a Muslim-owned catering company to serve pork and alcohol. The story here.