Results containing pro life

June 25, 2015

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Essays

A Reformed Approach to the Interactions of Science and Religion

by Tony Jelsma

…ion please see my review of Klapwijk’s book (and another book) starting on page 29 in Pro Rege: https://www.dordt.edu/publications/pro_rege/crcpi/Pro_Rege_Mar_2010.pdf…

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October 27, 2014

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Essays

Top 10 U.S. Supreme Court Cases From the Last Term

by Donald Roth

…ri and Brian Kaley for reselling stolen medical devices and laundering the proceeds, the prosecution obtained a freeze on all of their assets. The couple then sought to challenge the denial of a hearing to challenge the grand jury’s determination, since that indictment led to the freezing of assets they intended to spend retaining an attorney. Opinion (6-3): Justice Kagan delivered the Court’s opinion, finding that the criminal court system entrus…

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November 1, 2016

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Essays

Voting for Gary Johnson

by Adam Adams

…ion. After the trauma of this election cycle winds down, we will start the process over again, hoping these two groups will provide something better four years down the road. Every four years we are even farther from Lincoln or Roosevelt, and unsolved problems from president’s past continue to compound, requiring even more complexity to solve. Adding an additional voice to the conversation is necessary. In an early Republican primary debate in 201…

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June 3, 2016

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Essays

Hillary Clinton and Progressive Civil Religion

by Kristin Kobes du Mez

…through periods of doubt and spiritual exploration over the course of her life. But progressive Methodism has remained at the heart of her spiritual identity, and if one has ears to hear, it remains at the center of many of her political commitments today. What difference does it make if Hillary Clinton is a Christian? Electorally, overall favorability ratings tend to be linked to a candidate’s perceived religiosity, so it’s probably in her campa…

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August 10, 2016

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Essays

Nobody Knows What They’re Doing….and That’s OK

by Jeremy Engbers

…see how God was molding and guiding me with each person that He put in my life. The conversations that you’re going to have in college are going to be deep. Whether it’s with your parents, professors, or friends, God is going to use those little hints to lead you to fullness in Him. He is the giver of talents and passions. He will get you to where you need to be. You may take a complete 180 degree turn. Don’t panic. You just need to keep your eye…

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August 7, 2018

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Essays

Establishing Diverse Relationships through Story

by Harold Heie

…oup. Our partisan divide isn’t merely about liberals versus conservatives, pro-life versus pro-choice. Our lives as partisans have become downright tribal. This tragic “us versus them” approach to doing politics too easily morphs from believing that “they are wrong” to asserting that “they are evil.” And it negates the possibility of having respectful conversations about public policy disagreements. After all, “my people are right” while “your peo…

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February 21, 2017

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Culture

Hacksaw Ridge: A Movie Review

by Josh Matthews

…another terrible war in Europe, only to have loved ones die or ruined for life? And yet who wouldn’t support their country first? Eventually, Dawes is allowed to fight in the Pacific without a gun. The second half of the movie features part of the Battle of Okinawa. To tell you what Dawes does would not be prudent: his is an achievement better seen than read about here. However, the scenes of battle in Okinawa are probably why Gibson has been nom…

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November 4, 2016

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Essays

Be Not Afraid…To Vote for a Third-Party Conservative Candidate

by Tom Clark

…the word. He is moral man with a history of service to the country. He is pro-life in the full sense, caring both for the lives of the unborn cut short in the womb as well as the young black lives cut down on the streets. He values people of all ethnicities, backgrounds, and religions.3 Evan McMullin is someone who in conversation is knowledgeable about the country and our world, respectful of others, and acts like someone who is fit for the offi…

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February 17, 2022

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Books

Why War? A Neo-Calvinist Perspective: A Review of A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence

by Laremy De Vries

…maybe that’s exactly the right time to take a more theoretical textbook approach to the history of Christian nonviolence to see what we can learn.  I was also glad that the authors spent a lot of time reckoning. Neo-Calvinists have been struggling with the sins of our past, and the authors of this book are doing the same. One of the foundational thinkers in the nonviolence movement, John Howard Yoder, has over the course of his career been accuse…

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August 29, 2019

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Books

Seeing Family in the Light of the Cross: A Review of The Storm-Tossed Family

by Erin Olson

…and parenting them can—and should—be different than the broader societal approach. Children are a promise from God that He will continue to bless His people in the future, but they are not everything. Just as God calls some to be parents, he also calls some to singleness and childlessness. The most powerful and insightful chapter in the book was one titled “Family Tensions, Family Traumas.” Moore again is both honest and practical as he approaches…

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July 21, 2022

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Books

Cultivating Organic Creativity: A Review of The Imagination Machine

by Donald Roth

…gether in a business. While much more could be said here, the most basic approach to calling is to look for areas of life where God voices a specific desire for human activity. In doing this, I turn to what is often termed the cultural mandate, that Genesis 1:28’s call to be “fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.”4 In short, when we think of business as an organism, it invites in a rich set of intuitive comparisons to ecosystem,…

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September 28, 2017

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Essays

Not So Fast: Framing Capital Punishment in the Context of Historic Christian Moral Reasoning

by Brad Littlejohn

…ts as to how mild or harsh a penalty can justly be.4 Can divine law, then, provide clarity for us what just punishment looks like? Well, perhaps not as much as we might like. Properly speaking, according to Hooker (and the broader tradition for which he speaks), divine law refers only to those supernaturally-revealed duties pertaining to faith and salvation; since grace does not destroy nature, these do not overturn the created moral order of good…

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July 6, 2022

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Books

The Church and Disability Justice: A Review of My Body Is Not a Prayer Request

by Kathleen Van Tol

…is not one of them.” Amy Kenny Kenny calls out churches for claiming to be pro-life while limiting our representation of what an abundant life looks like. She states that when we create separate ministries to people with disabilities, we turn them into objects of pity or charity rather than seeing them as image-bearers with gifts to share with the entire church community. When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law, ensuring…

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January 27, 2018

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Books

The Meaning of the Trinity

by J. Todd Billings

…e tend to take an idea and run with it, to run headlong into scores of new projects that the allegedly “lax” (or “Constantinian,” or “Christendom”) church has supposedly never considered. Positively, the church at large does need to see the profound and practical implications of trinitarian theology. But as evangelicals, we also need to be humbled by reading authors like Anatolios, reminding us that we are not the first to tread these paths. In fa…

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August 12, 2015

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Essays

Compensation as Cultivation

by Donald Roth

…way I’ve seen this done is a local company which runs a vacation donation program. Through that program, employees can donate days off into a bank, and the hourly value of those donations will be used to convert unpaid time off into paid time off for other employees on leave for things like illness or maternity. The leaders of that company are very good about donating their leave hours to the program because they know that, since they’re paid a h…

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September 16, 2015

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Essays

Does Gender Matter in the Academic World?

by Neal DeRoo

…ry student of my gender who is thinking about graduate school or is having problems in my program. Displaying empathy and kindness has never made me feel that others thought I should give up my chosen field. If I were to make a sexual comment about a student, there is a chance that people would partially blame the student. I have never been called “fresh meat” by a professor while in grad school. I have never worried about what sexual signals my a…

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September 30, 2019

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Essays

Dordt Prepares for PPCI

by Jeff Taylor

…ministration, Wear led faith outreach for the Obama 2012 campaign; he is a pro-life Democrat. PPCI has no “party line.” Featured speakers exemplify a variety of viewpoints and we will be hosting a diverse group of participants. In addition to our four keynote speakers, we now have a presidential candidate scheduled to appear: Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard is a U.S. Representative (D-HI), Major in the Hawaii Army National Guard, and former Vice Chair of t…

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June 26, 2017

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Culture

Rashomon

by Josh Matthews

…off than when the movie began. Is history doomed to repeat itself, and is life nothing but a vale of tears? But then someone else restarts the plot. When the rain stops and the sun comes out, an abandoned baby, hidden in a dark corner of the gate, begins to cry. What should the men do with it? Kurosawa provokes us with the baby’s late entrance into the film, which always mystifies my students, who are all first-time viewers of the movie. You migh…

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November 30, 2021

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Essays

God at Babel

by Rose Postma

…e. I am not used to not being heard.) I try to imagine my friends in other professions suddenly stymied…a carpenter waking up one morning to find that hammers and nails are no longer an effective way to join two pieces of wood; a computer programmer discovering that none of her tried and true codes work; a baker realizing that yeast cannot make bread rise.  I guess I thought that even if people I knew and loved disagreed with me, they would still…

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June 8, 2016

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Essays

Winning and Losing

by Mark Christians

…nning can lead to a life of singular focus on the outcome, rather than the process. Besides being a psychology professor, I also coach our college men’s and women’s golf teams. In my 14 years of coaching golf, I’ve had successful teams who finished in the top five of our conference and I’ve coached teams who finished near the bottom of our conference. Since I am competitive by nature, I want my teams to play well, compete for high finishes in golf…

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June 2, 2016

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Essays

Does God Have a Political Party? Civil Religion and Party Politics in American History

by Daniel K. Williams

…y do many Christians feel that neither party represents their values? Many pro-life Catholics, along with some evangelicals, appreciate the Democratic Party’s stances on immigration, the environment, and economic justice, but bemoan the party’s support for abortion rights – a position that makes it impossible for many of them to vote Democratic, no matter how much they might like the party’s views on other issues. Similarly, many conservative evan…

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June 7, 2016

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Essays

Wage Gaps in Professional Sports

by Bill Elgersma

…fference between wage parity and wage discrimination. Minimum Salaries for Professional U.S. Sports Players2 Maximum Salaries for Professional U.S. Sports Players National Hockey League $550,000 $10.5 million National Basketball League $507,336 $24.8 million Major League Baseball $500,000 $31 million National Football League $420,000 $22 million Major League Soccer $60,000 $7.1 million National Women’s Soccer League $6,842 $37,800   Badenhusen ↩ F…

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January 23, 2017

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Essays

Can We Be Pragmatic and Prophetic in the Age of Trump?

by Donald Roth

…spel. Inasmuch as the current government can be expected to be friendly to pro-life causes, Christian education, and religious free expression, this does not mean that “we” are in power. Conservatives need to nurture a healthy skepticism of the motives of demagogues like Trump, and, should things turn dark, Christians must be ready to speak truth to power, even if it seems to cut against our own political interests. At the same time, the God and c…

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June 3, 2022

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Culture

Top 5: Classic Movies For Summer Vacation

by Josh Matthews

…a woman, played by Ingrid Bergman, to spy on her father. She’s morally compromised in every way, yet maybe she’s falling for Grant’s character? Few directors besides Hitchcock could pull off a suspenseful movie with no action scene, including one of the most famous shots in film history, as well as one of the most notorious endings. On the Waterfront (1954) Everybody probably knows the classic movie line, “I coulda been a contender!”, which comes…

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January 30, 2015

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Essays

Why We Should Watch Football

by Greg Youngblood

…d off the field. With all this negativity you would wonder why I am such a proponent of sports. It’s because when done the right way according to the true spirit of God, athletics demonstrates the glory, power, humility, grace and love of our Father in magnificent ways. There are many examples of athletes overcoming extreme adversity and accomplishing great things, demonstrating the strength and power of God working through the human spirit when i…

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