The Protestant Premarital Sex Debate Through Harvard Christians’ Eyes Intersections of Sex and Faith at Harvard In June 2006, an organization called “True Love Revolution” was founded at Harvard College, the first of its kind to “promote respectful and open-minded discussion of issues relating to abstinence, sex and marriage.” Though True Love Revolution is a
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As a Roman Catholic theologian studying ecumenism, I’m sometimes asked by friends, students, and even strangers on planes the question, “So what is that?” I explain that ecumenism refers to the practical, spiritual, and theological attempts to regain the unity of the Christian church throughout the oikumene, that is, throughout the whole world. It’s a
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A Defense of Christian Truth in a Pluralistic Culture For I am not ashamed of the Gospel. It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: for Jew first, and then Greek. Romans 1:16 (NAB) One night in mid-January, my roommate was walking back into Harvard Yard. As he passed through
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Richard Dawkins does not believe in God, and he thinks that you shouldn’t either. In fact, if you do believe in God, he thinks that it is probably because you are deluded, weak-minded, uneducated, and quite possibly perverse. All this and then some he argues in his latest book, The God Delusion, which by now
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Renegotiating Christian Identity According to popular stereotypes, there are two kinds of Christians in America. The first is the liberal Christian. The liberal Christian is a member of a mainline Protestant denomination. He goes to church every Sunday morning because it is what nice people do, but is not overly concerned with salvation or evangelism.
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Editor’s Note: This October, the first Ichthus lecture was delivered by J. Budziszewski in Emerson Hall on the topic of Natural Law. Budziszewski is a professor of Government and Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin, and has written extensively on the subjects of politics, ethics, philosophy, and theology. He has written several books, including
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It is almost impossible to say anything bad about Mma Precious Ramotswe, the warm and tenderhearted lady detective from Botswana at the center of Alexander McCall Smith’s popular series, “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.” No one really has, and who could? If you have read the books, you know that Mma Ramotswe is a
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