Outside of sociological circles, not many people these days have heard of Philip Rieff. But Rieff stands as one of the twentieth century’s keenest minds, and remains one of the greatest gifts—even if a complicated and challenging gift—to Western society. I discovered Rieff as I suppose many people stumble across great ideas and great thinkers—almost …
Continue...Editor’s Note: Canon & Culture is beginning 2015 with a Symposium on Statecraft and political theology featuring six essays from Research Fellows of the ERLC’s Research Institute. Introduction I have been asked to take part in this symposium on politics and statecraft by giving some thought to the question “using your political imagination, what would …
Continue...On Monday, July 21, President Obama signed Executive Order 11478, which amended two previous executive orders related to equal employment opportunity hiring. It amends Executive Order 11246 protecting federal contractors’ employees from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. It also adds gender identity as a protected category under Executive Order 11478, …
Continue...“As an atheist, I respect natural law. Christians have to deny basic laws of nature and deceive their own common sense in order to maintain their belief.” —James Sansom, “Letter to the Editor,” News and Observer (Raleigh), 8 October 2006 How should evangelicals wishing to restore the moral foundations of public life respond to fellow citizens and …
Continue...Mississippi passes controversial ‘religious freedom’ bill Mississippi Governor Signs ‘Religious Freedom’ Bill Into Law Mississippi Senate Passes Sweeping ‘Religious Liberty’ Bill All three of those headlines have two things in common. First, they all put scare quotes around the phrase ‘religious liberty,’ the ostensible purpose of which is to introduce doubt or skepticism that the …
Continue...Welcome to Questions and Ethics. This is Russell Moore, host of the program and president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. I have been away for a couple of weeks. We went on our family vacation and then had a sudden death in our family, and so I have …
Continue...On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order on “maintaining American leadership in artificial intelligence.” Here is what you should know about the order: What is an executive order, and what does it do? An executive order is an official document, signed by the president, used to manage the federal government. Assuming they are limited …
Continue...Editor’s Note: Canon & Culture is beginning 2015 with a Symposium on Statecraft and political theology featuring six essays from Research Fellows of the ERLC’s Research Institute. When Christians consider ideal polity we need at the outset to make some distinctions. We need to distinguish polity in the kingdom of God from polity in the …
Continue...What just happened? This week, the Trump Administration issued an executive order aimed at improving America’s child welfare system by seeking to strengthen foster care and adoption programs. The order outlines three objectives: improving partnerships, improving resources, and improving oversight. What does the order do? Executive orders work in our system of government as administrative …
Continue...The following lecture was delivered on October 29, 2014, as the 2014 Herschel H. Hobbs Lecture. In his breviary on sin, former Calvin College president and professor of systematic theology, Cornelius Plantiga, Jr., narrates a scene from a movie that introduces his treatise on the topic. His recounting of that episode is as follows: In the …
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