Amy Sherman reports on the ways government and faith-based organizations are collaborating to change the face of welfare service provisions. Excerpts from her "Catalogue," just published by the Center for Public Justice, indicate that change is slow and that Charitable Choice is not yet generally understood.
Roy Clouser argues that the battle lines have been misdrawn over the teaching of evolution in public schools. Science must be science and empirical findings must test theories, but scientific theories are never religiously neutral. Science and religion do not exist in isoltated compartments, and evolutionary theory cannot escape its own religious presuppositions.
The editor contends that todays political battles over control of public school curricula--to teach or not to teach evolution--are more medieval than modern. Democratic governments no more than popes and emperors should have the right to authorize scientific truth.
The editors propose a change--more significant than campaign finance reform--to recover the purpose of elections, which should be: to represent citizens, to hold officials accountable, and to foster genuine public debate.
Worldview is the key to understanding the way people think and live, say Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey, in their new book How Now Shall We Live?. Keith Pavlischek explores the need for a popularly written volume like this in the United States today.
Oliver and Joan O'Donovan have collected and introduced writings on politics and government from more than 50 of the most important Christian authors during the first 1700 years of the Christian era. Ten brief excerpts from comments on Romans 13 will give the reader a taste of what's in this volume of 800+ pages.
Jeson Ingraham addresses the need for more choice in American elections. He introduces two reforms--the Instant Runoff Vote and the Single Transferrable Vote--that would begin to move us out of our confinement within the two-party system.
The editor, quoting the Book of Proverbs, makes the point that out of the heart "flow the springs of life," and that who we are as human beings and what we hold in our hearts has an effect on everything else.
