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eborah Haarsma, the Director of BioLogos, is professor of Astronomy, and her husband, Loren Haarsma, teaches Physics at Calvin College in Michigan. The biology department of Calvin College issued this statement on May 7, 2010: "We teach evolutionary theory as the best scientific explanation for the dynamic diversity of life on Earth. . . . We teach biology from an evolutionary paradigm." Neither Deborah nor Loren are biologists, though biologists serve on the BioLogos team. Neither are anthropologists, and as far as I can discover, no anthropologists serve on the BioLogos team. That is unfortunate since anthropology has much to...

Will Anglican Separation become Anglican Divorce? by Kendall Harmon Anglicanism is in a huge crisis. In a shot fired throughout the globe in Minneapolis in the summer of 2003 the Episcopal Church confirmed the election of a man as bishop who had been living with another man as his companion and lover for over 10 years. A Lambeth Commission report seeking a way forward out of the mess the Americans created is to be released on October 18th in London. How did the third largest Christian family in the world get to this critical point? Let me suggest four reasons....

Are Australian churches too cowardly to suggest it is in the best interest of children to have married parents? That's the impression I received two years ago when I questioned the wisdom of naming Pat Rafter as Australian of the Year - a tennis icon about to become an unmarried father. Midst the flood of responses, churchgoers wrote in large numbers about the stony silence of their churches on the subject. One woman mentioned she had just been to Mass, where her priest had given a long sermon praising Rafter and never mentioned the marriage issue. "Are we now too...