My Official Break Up with Complementarian Theology
I listened to a sermon today. That’s not too odd, considering it’s Sunday and I’m a regular church attendee. But, I listened to a really, really good sermon today (which doesn’t happen every time I attend church). The sermon was about walls—walls we build and walls we tear down.
Saoirse Kennedy-Hill
When you were little, did you ever have friends your mom made you hang out with, even though you didn’t want to? Then those friends kept showing up, and you were confused and sick of them. Soon enough, those friends were around so much that you got used to them. Finally, those friends were always with you and never left, and you almost began to enjoy having them around. Until last year, this was my relationship with my mental illness.
Is it ethical to publish unethical research?
How should journal editors treat submissions based on unethical research? Is it ethical to publish scientific results if they build on unethically gathered data? A recent case has forced reflection on these questions and suggests that changes need to be made to the publishing system.
Transgender Children...A Christian Leader's Response ~ RELEVANT CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
The front cover of a recent National Geographic Magazine issue was titled "Gender Revolution" and featured a picture of nine-year-old Avery Jackson of Kansas City. Avery has lived as an openly transgender girl since the age of five. "I am Jazz" is a a reality show on TLC about Jazz Jennings. Jazz was born a boy, but at age 4, was diagnosed with gender dysphoria. By Jazz's 5th birthday, the parents decided to support the child's female gender identity. The show gives you an inside look at the child's journey and family dynamics.
The Surprising History of Empathy
Albert Bierstadt, Sunrise on the Matterhorn Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Wikimedia Commons There is a lot of talk today about empathy and how to cultivate it. But most people don’t know that the word “empathy” is relatively new; it was coined in 1908. And strangely enough, its early meaning was different from what we understand as empathy today; in fact, it meant nearly the opposite.
Exploring Maya ruins in Guatemala's Tikal National Park
TIKAL NATIONAL PARK, Guatemala — The woman in the shorts shrieked, grabbed her ankle and crumpled to the ground as though she'd been shot. And in a sense she had. "A bullet ant," surmised José Elias, our unflappable guide. "If they sting you, the pain will last 24 hours. Take care." We left the stricken woman to her friends and plunged deeper into Guatemala's steamy jungle.
59 Percent of Millennials Raised in a Church Have Dropped Out—And They're Trying to Tell Us Why
By Sam Eaton From the depths of my heart, I want to love church. I want to be head-over-heals for church like the unshakable Ned Flanders. I want to send global, sky-writing airplanes telling the life-change that happens beneath a steeple. I want to install a police microphone on top of my car and cruise the streets screaming to the masses about the magical Utopian community of believers waiting for them just down the street.
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A new study has found that drivers of flashy vehicles are less likely to stop and allow pedestrians to cross the road -- with the likelihood they'll slow down decreasing by 3% for every extra $1,000 that their vehicle is worth. Researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas speculated that the expensive car owners "felt a sense of superiority over other road users" and were less able to empathize with lowly sidewalk-dwellers. They came to this conclusion after asking volunteers to cross a sidewalk hundreds of times, filming and analyzing the responses by car drivers. Researchers used one white and one black man, and one white and one black woman -- also finding that cars were more likely to yield for the white and female participants.
