Religion & Public Life

We will be reading and discussing Pastor Steve's recent article in Critique (a publication of Ransom Fellowship, which we recommend highly) entitled "Why Bother with Culture?"

Here are some questions that we'll be considering during the discussion:

Christians and the Public Square: Reflections on Academic Life in the Modern Secular University

Dr. Skillen, a leading political analyst and author of many books, will join us again on the eve of the election to talk about the big picture of American politics.

Election Series '08 is an online series of commentaries by Dr. Skillen and a team of both American and foreign writers examining the most important election-related issues.

We'll be watching and discussing a short video from the Christian Vision Project.

Watch the trailer.

Richard Baer's Roundtable presentation will (a) describe how public schools and universities routinely indoctrinate students in moral relativism, in various forms of egoistic hedonism, in anti-Christian views of human freedom, and in other beliefs and values that compete with and undermine Christian faith; (b) make the case that insofar as public schools and universities in the United States today violate both the free exercise and the non-establishment clauses of the First Amendment and thus ought to be considered fundamentally unconstitutional; and (c) explore ways that we as a society m

In recent years, there has been much debate about the competing claims of narrative and propositional truth.  Consider, for example, the following excerpt from "A Better Storyteller," Patton Dodd's profile of Donald Miller in the June 2007 issue of Christianity Today: