Bored to Life: Secularism and its Malcontents
By Scott Jones
From Princeton Faith and Action
Do all of your earthly accomplishments end up feeling like hurdles on an endless path? Christian Union Ministry Fellow at Princeton, Scott Jones, speaks at Encounter, the weekly leadership lecture series resourced and supported by Christian Union at Princeton...
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Please Consider a Gift by June 30 to Develop Christian Leaders
From ChristianUnion.org
During this past school year, not only have 1,200 students been a part of Christian Union in-depth Bible courses, but many others have been touched or influenced for God's glory by Christian Union ministry faculty like Scott Jones (see video, above). From leadership lecture series talks to book giveaways to one-on-one discipleship and evangelistic discussions, Christian Union's ministry faculty has invested thousands of hours in seeing God's name glorified and tomorrow's leaders developed. Your gift by June 30 will help sustain and deepen this ministry in the fall.
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Study: Americans Becoming Less Christian, More Secular
By The Associated Press
From The New York Times
The number of Americans who don't affiliate with a particular religion has grown to 56 million in recent years, making the faith group researchers call "nones" the second-largest in total numbers behind evangelicals, according to a Pew Research Center study...
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Headed Down a Perilous Path?
By Napp Nazworth
From Christian Post
In a recent address at Harvard University, former Congressman Frank Wolf warned his audience of the impending perils facing Christians in the social sphere. Wolf stated, "When tolerance is demanded, when orthodox Christianity is deemed intolerant, and when government and even society fails to extend tolerance to people of faith, we are headed down a perilous path." In the coming years, Christians may face the same type of persecution that early Christians experienced under the Roman Empire. Despite the trials, however, Wolf exhorted his audience to stand behind their Christian ideals, which will likely mean practicing civil disobedience, as well as taking counter-cultural actions...
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Judicial Activism on Marriage, Like Abortion, Can Cause Harms
By Ryan T. Anderson
From The Daily Signal
"There simply is nothing in the Constitution that requires all 50 states to redefine marriage," writes Princeton alumnus and senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation. "Whatever people may think about marriage as a policy matter, everyone should be able to recognize the Constitution does not settle this question." He goes on to write that judicially redefining marriage could cause at least three types of harm: harm to marriage itself (and thus to spouses and children); to civil peace and self-government; and to religious liberty and the rights of conscience...
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Our Place in God's World
By Jesse Peterson
From Crown & Cross
The following was written for the Columbia University's Journal of Christian Thought, Crown & Cross, by Christian Union Ministry Fellow Jesse Peterson.
Who wrote the first commentary on Genesis’s opening chapter? Not St. Augustine, not even the Apostle Paul. An ancient Hebrew poet, clearly steeped in Genesis 1:26-28, penned the following reflection (known to us moderns as the eighth psalm) as a singular celebration of humanity’s place within God’s world...
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Prayer Requests
From graduate schools to Wall Street to professional sports to a wide range of other career paths, students who have been involved in Christian Union ministries are graduating and headed out into the next phase of their lives. They will, prayerfully, be seeking ways to make a difference for Christ in their various spheres of influence. Pray for these graduates, that God would lead them as they take their next steps, and that they would represent Christ well wherever they land.
Christian Union's ministry at Harvard Law School has already seen 40 students commit to take part in a summer reading study. Pray that God would use this to enrich these students' lives and that it would be a rich time of developing a deeper understanding of God's Word in the context of the legal system.
