The Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture is an academic research organization and is not affiliated with any church or religious organization.
The Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture (ISCC) examines the intersection of religion, and particularly the Christian faith, and its surrounding culture. Through annual conferences and other events, ISCC strives to engage the academy and thinking people of faith in dialogue in all areas of cultural endeavor, including history, science, music, literature, religion, and the arts. By so doing, the Institute hopes to enrich both the academy and the communities of faith.
05/05/2021
CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years LANGLEY, VA—A report released Tuesday by the CIA's Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information with black highlighters.
07/06/2016
Scotland 2016 The Program This program is for people interested in the History and Culture of Scotland. It is centered around the ancient city of Edinburgh (the capital city of Scotland), home of Scottish royal...
04/07/2016
Jerry Brown signs $15 minimum wage in California Gov. Jerry Brown, casting a living wage as a moral imperative while questioning its economic rationale, signed legislation Monday raising California’s mandatory minimum to $15 an hour by 2022, acting within hours of a similar bill signing in New York.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims in the Brussels attack.
03/22/2016
Are Millennials Really Godless Youths? Introducing our special project on the changing nature of beliefs and practices among teens, 20-, and 30-somethings
02/01/2016
Call for Papers: "How do we see each other? The Abrahamic religions and interreligious relations in the past and present."
- This conference is hosted by the Religion and Civil Society Project of the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra. *Not affiliated with the ISCC.*
01/29/2016
Watering 'Strange Fruit' Trees - The Flint Water Crisis, Black Lives Matter, and the Catholic... Melissa Pagán declares that the Catholic church response to the racist and classist Flint water crisis should be solidarity with the residents, not silence about their oppression.
01/27/2016
Dr. Larycia Hawkins on the 'Inquisition' at Wheaton and Why She Wants to Stay "I would wear the hijab again." A Q&A with Wheaton College's on her suspension and the implications for Christian higher education.
01/22/2016
Wheaton College's faculty council unanimously supports reinstating Professor Hawkins.
Wheaton faculty leaders call for professor's reinstatement A handful of Wheaton College professors elected by their faculty peers have called on the school in Chicago's west suburbs to vacate the administrative leave and proposed termination of their colleague who said Muslims and Christians worship the same God.
01/12/2016
Was Wheaton Wrong? Doctrine matters. So does doctrinal identity. Some thoughts on the Larycia Hawkins affair
01/12/2016
Another perspective on the Wheaton College story.
Let Wheaton and other Christian colleges be Christian - CNN.com Wheaton College is in the national news again because Larycia Hawkins, a professor, said Muslims and Christians worship the same God.