Martin Rowson responds to today’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights: (via New Humanist) Read more
Augustana College is a private school (in Rock Island, Illinois) affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. That’s a relatively liberal church to be affiliated with, but what just happened there is still a news story because you wouldn’t expect it from a church-affiliated-anything: Two gay students were given permission to get married in the school’s chapel: Read more
Today, the European Court of Human Rights published its verdicts on four cases from the UK brought about by Christians against their employers. The basic premise of each case is that rules imposed on each of them by their respective employers have discriminated against them on the basis of their religious freedoms. All four lost their individual cases in UK employment tribunals, but then took their cases to the highest civil court in Europe, the ECHR. The four defendants in question are Shirley Chaplin, a nurse from Exeter; Nadia Eweida, a British Airways worker from London; Lilian Ladele, a local authority registrar also from London; and Gary McFarlane, a marriage counsellor from Bristol. (Can you guess their various grievances from their jobs?) Read more
Stephanie Drury’s scathing review of Mark Driscoll’s new book Who Do You Think You Are? is the best smackdown I’ve read since Pete Wells went after Guy Fieri’s restaurant: Read more
(In response to Hobby Lobby and the politicians who want other companies to follow in its footsteps) Read more
Daniel is back with another montage of some of the awful things done in the name of God over the past month: Read more
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor has been giving a lot of interviews in anticipation of her soon-to-be-released autobiography My Beloved World and this article from USA Today contained an interesting passage: Read more
Morning Edition on NPR is running a weeklong series on “Losing Our Religion” and they ran a nice story today about the “Nones” (atheists, agnostics, people who believe in “something” but don’t belong to an organized religion, etc) and it’s worth a listen. It’s nothing you haven’t heard before, but yay for more press about the topic! Better than the piece, though, are the graphics by Matt Stiles appearing alongside the piece on the NPR website. They showcase the growth of the Nones (in general), the growth of young Nones, and the growth of both male and female Nones. Read more
