Last night, Stephen Fry won the Harvard Secular Society’s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. The audience packed the pews of Memorial church, and rolled with laughter at Fry’s speech, filled with jokes as well as with rhetoric about reason and religion. As a former atheist and recently converted Christian, I thought I ought
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Both abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education programs have failed to seriously change the sexual behavior of adolescents. There is an effective alternative: the sex education of Jesus Christ.
The Ichthus will be beginning its comp process to bring in new staff members on Monday, February 14th at 7pm in Quincy’s Spindell Room. Check out our video for more information!
Hello Ichthus readers! I would write a longer post on a good topic, but I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather and am quite swamped with a big project coming up: the next print issue of the Ichthus!
In the long history of Christian thought, there have been (if not frequent, at least notable) writers who emphasized the feminine side of God. Philip Sheldrake writes that ”in premodern theology, motherhood and fatherhood were understood as gendered social roles of care and responsibility. For early Christians such as Clement of Alexandria (third century) and Gregory
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Jonah Lehrer wrote in the Wall Street Journal about the Heroic Imagination Project, a nonprofit designed to train adolescents to be the next generation of American heroes. The project is based on psychological experiments that have pretty important implications for Christians. Lehrer reports: “Stanley Milgram['s] famous experiment in the early 1960s showed that ordinary people
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When I come home for the holidays, I am always greeted by a delightful tree and lights, a pile of presents and filled stockings, and a TV turned to Fox News, where commentators are invariably rallying the troops to fight the War on Christmas. Whether it be over city Christmas trees or Brooklyn billboards, it
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