Integration: Contemporary Issues Archive

  • Male-and-Female Signs

    Human Sexuality in Christian Perspective

    There are few issues where Christianity is more in tension with our culture than in issues related to human sexuality. We live in a climate that is sexually permissive, generally self-indulgent, and usually confused. It seems the only thing which is immoral is declaring someone...

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    A post-modern cityscape

    Brad Christerson and Dan Callis continue our series on Sacred Space by exploring the idea of cities as sacred spaces. In particular, they will be sharing some of their thoughts on Los Angeles as a post-modern cityscape, and reflecting on cities and their significance in...

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  • Maroon Bells

    Table Talk: The Kingdom and the Stewardship of Creation

    Click here for notes that go with this presentation: Stewardship of Creation. Click here for Stewardship of Creation Bibliography. Our Table Talk for February 2011 is entitled “The Kingdom and the Stewardship of Creation”. Concern for the environment and the stewardship of the created order...

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    Some thoughts on long division

    Clarence Jordan, whose life story is presented in the stage play The Glory Man, offered his own unique response to racism in America.

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    Economics and Theology

    William Cavanaugh uses Christian resources to incisively address basic economic matters — the free market, consumer culture, globalization, and scarcity.

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  • The Lonely American

    Disconnectedness (social)

    Surprising new studies tell a grim truth about social isolation.

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  • Cosmopolitanism

    Cosmopolitanism

    Dill, Jeffrey S. “Cosmopolitanism: A Bibliographic Essay.” The Hedgehog Review 11.3 (2009): 125-134. Academic OneFile. Web. 6 July 2010. Abstract: “There have been three key cosmopolitan “moments” over the last two millennia. The first was the birth of the concept in the Cynic and Stoic...

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    Corporations

    The Moral Life of the Corporation: A Bibliographic Review Hart, Jonas. “The moral life of the corporation: a bibliographic review.” The Hedgehog Review 11.2 (2009): 80-88. Academic OneFile. Web. 6 July 2010. Abstract: This bibliographic essay provides a careful and useful overview of literature related...

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  • Emerging, Departing or Abiding? Reflections on the Emerging Church

    Emerging, Departing or Abiding? Reflections on the Emerging Church

    The “emerging church” is a name applied to a loosely affiliated movement of churches largely in North America and England. This movement is marked by an intentional desire to reinvent Christianity for the post-modern world—to speak the Gospel in a contemporary idiom. Its advocates have...

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  • Apologetics or Integration

    Apologetics or Integration

    Why Abraham Kuyper disliked apologetics and what that means for the integration of faith and learning.

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