Start the Conversation: Connecting Point: The Miss America Pageant has announced that it will no longer judge the contestants by outward appearance but by what’s on the inside – shifting the focus from bodies to “what comes out of their mouth” and what’s in their “soul.” For women, particularly, beauty is a goal— something we spend […]
Start the Conversation: The Connecting Point: Our nation’s immigration system is broken, leaving millions of people with an uncertain future about their legal status in the country. And as a result of the Syrian conflict, the world is witnessing the highest levels of human displacement on record. The Disconnect: The Internet provides a portal into […]
Start the Conversation: The Connecting Point: From the melting polar ice caps to changing weather patterns, many scientists are asking, what is the earth saying to us? The Disconnect: For many people, the natural world is all that exists. This worldview is called naturalism and it tends to express its faith in scientism: the belief […]
Start the Conversation: The Connecting Point: There are many onramps into this conversation. From headline news revealing the adulterous infidelity of public officials, to the treatment of marriage by Hollywood, to the ways in which marriage is degraded by redefinition and so-called no-fault divorce. Marriage is seen by many as unnecessary. The number of people […]
Start the conversation The Connecting Point: The recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida is causing many people to reevaluate their understanding of evil. Many are seeing that evil is real, and evil has real consequences for real people. The Disconnect: For those who operate out of a relativistic worldview with no moral absolutes, evil […]