A Different Approach to Christian Nationalism
June/July 2024: Responses to Christian Nationalism (Volume 24 Issue 3)
[1] In the glossary of the draft of the proposed ELCA Social Statement on Civic Life and Faith, Christian Nationalism is said to be: A cultural framework that idealizes and advocates fusion of certain Christian views with American civil life. This nationalistic ideology believes, among other things that the U.S. Constitution was divinely inspired, that […]
Book Review: We Are Electric: Inside the 300-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds by Sally Adee
December 2023/January 2024: Addressing the Sin of Child Abuse (Volume 23 Issue 6)
[1] Science and technology writer Sally Adee has written a book that provides a summary of the research demonstrating that electric currents run throughout bodies, even in the mind, and every living thing (the field of bioelectricity). This is a valuable volume for Christian ethicists and for any Christian thinker interested in what theology can […]
Can We Really Be So Sure When Human Life Begins? What Recent Neurobiological Data Might Entail for the Abortion Debate
February/March 2023: Il/legal Abortion: Lutheran Ethical Responses post-Dobbs (Volume 23 Issue 1)
[1] Since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the abortion debate has entered a new phase. And yet in another sense, nothing is new. The same old arguments get made on both sides with neither side really engaging the other. On one hand, there are those of the Pro-Choice movement, in accord with […]