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The Girl in the Tuxedo: Two Variations on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

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Teens struggling with their sexual identity may seem to have more options than they did in the 1980s—but one important option is increasingly denied to them.
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Exodus: Gods & Kings: What Does God’s Voice Really Sound Like?

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With its controversial decision concerning the voice of God, the movie “Exodus: Gods & Kings” demonstrates the limits of what we can really know about God.
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What We Don’t Know Just Might Kill You

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The fertility industry has absolutely no interest in doing the studies and the research that are needed to protect women.
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Charlie Hebdo, Intolerance, and the Problem of Double Standards

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The terrible massacre in Paris could be a “teachable” moment on the meaning of tolerance, but it will require soul searching by America’s cultural leftists.
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Charlie Hebdo and #MuslimApologies

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In the wake of Islamist attacks, non-Muslims express concern and confusion not because they are indifferent, but because they are afraid. They want to understand. Muslims have an opportunity to embrace this opportunity for understanding.
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Updike’s Wager: Brilliance, Doubt, and the Miracle of Existence

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Novelist John Updike excelled at his craft, seemingly without effort. But it is his extreme existential doubt and ultimate decision to believe in transcendence that makes Updike’s life and literature approachable.
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Evangelicals and the LGBT Community: What Does the Future Hold?

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Evangelicals are learning to model both grace and truth when discussing homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
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Academic Freedom, Religious Institutions, and the State

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Government funding of education should not be tied to the beliefs of unaccountable academics. Public support for education should empower students and parents, and the choices they make.
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International Religious Freedom Policy and American National Security

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The Obama administration has failed to advance the cause of international religious liberty, and that failure has endangered American national security. But there are concrete steps Congress can take to improve implementation of the International Religious Freedom Act. Adapted from testimony delivered before the National Security Sub-Committee of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, September 18, 2014.
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Scientific Education: Do We Love Our Children?

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To love our children well, we must equip them with a strong education in the sciences as well as the liberal arts.
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Hooking Up, Shacking Up, and Saying “I Do”

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Despite the lack of cultural support for positive practices that help couples toward healthy marriage relationships, the good news is that individuals have control over their relationship choices.
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The Pleasures of Prudence: How Over-Regulation Hurts Doctors, Teachers, and All Workers

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Workers must have the freedom to develop real expertise and to exercise this rational mastery in pursuit of good ends. Only in the pleasures of prudence can we truly realize those excellences of which human beings are capable.
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Protecting the Religious Liberty of Adoption and Foster Care Providers

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Provided agencies meet basic requirements protecting the welfare of children, they should be free to operate according to their values, especially their religiously informed beliefs about marriage. New legislation introduced this week would protect this right.
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Gordon College and Pluralism in Higher Education

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Requiring all colleges and universities to adopt the same practices and policies would destroy their institutional identities and prevent them from achieving their diverse missions.
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Sexual Assault: What Does the Hook-Up Culture Have To Do with It?

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The sexual assault epidemic on college campuses is created, in part, by the effects of the hook-up culture. The first in a two-part series.
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After Hobby Lobby, the Struggle for Religious Freedom Continues

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According to the structure of the Court’s logic, all objecting employers should receive the same religious freedom protection given to churches and religious orders.
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Supreme Court to Obama Administration: You Don’t Have to Agree with Religious Beliefs to Respect the Liberty of the People Who Hold Them . . . and the Groups They Form

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Yesterday’s decision demonstrates that the Supreme Court understands what Congress set out to do when it passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Religious freedom is for all, regardless of the popularity of the belief. Congress, in passing RFRA, has said that if the belief can be accommodated, then it must be.
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A Perpetual Haven: Why the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Matters

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Respect for religious conscience is not an afterthought or luxury, but the very essence of the American political and social compact. Adapted from testimony presented before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
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Dostoyevsky the Prophet: The Trial of Dmitri Karamazov and the Redefinition of Family

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Dostoyevsky prophetically depicts the notion of family as determined not by nature but by consent—an idea that has come to dominate our modern society.
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Religious Liberty and Economic Freedom: Intellectual and Practical Paradoxes

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The role of economic liberty in contributing to human flourishing and the common good remains deeply underappreciated, even by those who are dedicated to religious liberty.
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The Devil Went Down to Harvard

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Ideas should never be banned from an academic community, even if some find them offensive. Yet some actions and events are so hateful that they tear at the fabric of a community.
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Do Ideas Really Have Consequences?

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To view practical agreements between Aristotelian-Thomist foundationalists and contemporary anti-foundationalist liberals as “progress” is to fiddle while Rome burns.
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Moral Truth: A Lesson from the Donald Sterling Affair

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When we make moral judgments, we implicitly and unavoidably acknowledge that there are objective standards of right and wrong to which we ought to conform our feelings and actions.
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The Single Life: Where Do We Go From Here?

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Conservatives need to face the fact that a significant contingent of women will remain single. We need to start addressing what it means to live as a single, religious, educated woman in our society.
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