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Things You Should Be Reading: The City (Winter Edition)
If you’re not reading Houston Baptist University’s The City, you’re missing out, period. This journal now features some of the best commentary on political, cultural, and theological issues that an intelligent reader can find. For example, in the most recent … Continue reading
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The Gay Basketball Star and an Emerging Cultural Narrative
If you’re a sports fan, did you see the news about former Villanova Wildcats basketball player Will Sheridan coming out of the closet? And the stories about Phoenix Suns President and CEO Rick Welts revealing the same? Whether you like … Continue reading
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The Manhattan Declaration: A Bold Statement on Family and Faith
Today at 12pm, a group of evangelical, Catholic and Orthodox leaders released a statement on the sanctity of human life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty. Called the Manhattan Declaration, this statement represents a bold rebuke of current cultural trends and … Continue reading
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Review: Russ Moore’s “Adopted for Life”, a Book to Change Lives
Theology is alive. It should be felt, not merely taught. It should reach into all areas of our lives, bringing light and health to them. The heft of God’s teaching transforms both the way we think and the way we … Continue reading
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Robby George and Greg Thornbury on Natural Law: A Valuable InSight Podcast
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina has just released an excellent podcast on natural-law thinking featuring an interview conducted by Doug Baker with constitutional law scholar Robby George and systematician Greg Thornbury. It is called “Morality: Past its Prime”, … Continue reading
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Making Men Moral: Closing Thoughts and Conference Audio
Well, the dust cloud is settling. The Making Men Moral conference is over. It has been an incredible privilege to do this event. I am hugely impressed with Union University, David Dockery, Micah Watson, Robby George and the other theorists … Continue reading
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Making Men Moral: Hadley Arkes on the Indissoluble Connection Between Law and Morality
The biography of Hadley Arkes, the conference’s final speaker: “Hadley Arkes has been a member of the Amherst College faculty since 1966. He was the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence, and was appointed, in 1987, as the Edward Ney … Continue reading
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Making Men Moral: The Book Itself
As the conference concludes, I want to give you a brief sense of the book upon which this event is based. Robby George’s Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality was published fifteen years ago by Oxford University Press. It … Continue reading
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Making Men Moral: Robby George’s Chapel Message, the Conference Keynote
The biography of the conference’s keynote speaker, Robby George, who spoke in Union’s chapel service: Professor George is a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics and formerly served as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil … Continue reading
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