Conservatives need to face the fact that a significant contingent of women will remain single. We need to start addressing what it means to live as a single, religious, educated woman in our society. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/04/13036/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=03962a7d7d-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-03962a7d7d-84107317 Read more

Looking for a birthday gift? A Pentecost gift? Or simply wondering how Christians should think about world religions? Here’s the perfect book. “This rich volume, with its sprightly and searching response essays, is both a state-of-the-art review and a positive advance in one of the most important conversations Christian theologians are having today.” –John G. Stackhouse, Jr., Sangwoo Youtong Chee Professor of Theology and Culture, Regent College http://www.amazon.com/Trinitarian-Theology-Religions-Evangelical-Proposal/dp/019975182X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398110121&sr=1-1&keywords=mcdermott+a+trinitarian+theology Read more

We are looking for a PhD candidate or PhD interested in teaching at Roanoke one year, starting in the fall. The position is in Religious Studies. Here is what he or she needs to be able to do: Teach a 3/3 load. Candidate must be able to teach a survey of world religions and an introduction to Judaism. Candidate must also be able to teach first-year seminars in our General Education curriculum. We don’t know if the position will be... Read more

We almost certainly now have fewer minority doctors, lawyers, and business chiefs than we would have had under race-neutral admissions policies. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/373828/racial-preferences-under-siege-john-fund Read more

Steven Smith’s new book implies that it is still possible—though difficult—to recover what made the U.S. a land of free and flourishing belief. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/04/12980/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=c6d9e2eb1b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-c6d9e2eb1b-84107317 Read more

Steven Pinker understands the limits of scientific knowledge no better than the fundamentalist understands the limits of biblical knowledge. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/04/12991/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=18deee7357-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-18deee7357-84107317 Read more

Millennials are less likely to say religion is important in their lives, they are more likely to identity as a “none,” and they attend church and pray less than their elders. However, when comparisons are made between faithful millennials and faithful people of older generations, the data get more interesting. http://juicyecumenism.com/2014/04/06/symposium-a-warped-and-crooked-generation/?utm_source=flocknote&utm_medium=email&utm_term=4&utm_content=symposium-a-warped-and-crooked-generation&utm_campaign=Weekly%20Wrap%20Up%204-10-14 Read more

She was bound for college as a PSEO student. I was bound for my senior year of high school. We both were eager to grow up. http://juicyecumenism.com/2014/04/04/symposium-sex-and-salvation/?utm_source=flocknote&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2&utm_content=symposium-sex-and-salvation&utm_campaign=Weekly%20Wrap%20Up%204-10-14 Read more

It’s common to worry that the internet is isolating us. But could it also be helping to create new forms of community? http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/04/13011/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=c8f1dd9353-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-c8f1dd9353-84107317 Read more

Although Nigel Biggar’s new book on just war has many strengths, the author gets himself into a moral muddle over the question whether the deaths of innocent non-combatants can be deliberately chosen in war. In Defense of the Innocent Read more