Will We Keep Our Religious Liberties?
By John Stonestreet | On the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby, the challenge to the HHS mandate brought by a Christian-owned family business based in Oklahoma. It’s also agreed to hear a related case, Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Sebelius, which involves…
New FTU Course: Are You a Feminist?
Feminism informs many aspects of the modern college campus. Examine here the many types of feminism active in our culture. What are they trying to accomplish and what do you think? Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to participate in America’s fastest-growing college scholarship fund….
Congress Strengthens Religious Freedom for the Military
By Michael Cochrane | The Senate passed a defense bill with strong bipartisan support last week that includes important language to strengthen and protect the religious freedom of military members and chaplains. The 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes the standard provisions for funding the…
Faith Within Science: Data Mining with Hubris?
By Thomas P. Sheahen | For quite some time, science has been presented to the public in a distorted way. Reports of statements by scientists are often stated as absolutely certain truths, never mentioning any doubts or questions. Seldom do reporters inquire about how they became so certain, why they have…
New FTU Course: Are You Color Blind?
I have a dream! With these words Martin Luther King, Jr. challenged us to stop judging people by the color of their skin. How do we promote that ideal? AVERAGE TIME: 2 HOURS. 1,000 IMPACT POINTS.
The Government Can Now Force You to Bake a Cake
By Leslie Ford | An administrative law judge in Denver, Colorado—a state that constitutionally defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman in 2006—has declared that Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, violated the law when he refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. When a same-sex couple…
New FTU Course: Have We Found Some Missing Links?
The modern theory of evolution presupposes intermediate forms of life between the established species. What is the evidence for these links between life? Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to participate in America’s fastest-growing college scholarship fund…
Philanthropic and Academic Arrogance: The Long River Denial
By Marvin Olasky | Not only donors practice what Charles Dickens satirized as “telescopic philanthropy.” Professors wise in their own eyes fall into it as well. Dickens wrote of Mrs. Jellyby, a Londoner devoted day and night to the fictional “Borrioboola-Gha Venture,” a plan to settle poor Englishmen among African…
Degrees of Value: Making College Pay Off
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds | For Too Many Americans, College Today Isn’t Worth It. In the field of higher education, reality is outrunning parody. A recent feature on the satire website the Onion proclaimed, “30-Year-Old Has Earned $11 More Than He Would Have Without College Education.” Allowing for tuition, interest on student loans, and four years of foregone income while in school, the fictional student “Patrick Moorhouse” wasn’t much better off. His years of stress and study, the article japed, “have been more…