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October 2018

October 17, 2018

ReligionProf Podcast Episode 8 with Ankur Gupta: Curation, Filters, and Bubbles

In the second part of my conversation with Ankur Gupta about our Artificial Wisdom project,...

October 15, 2018

Doctor Who: The Ghost Monument

The second episode of this season of Doctor Who made very clear that we're in...

September 2018

September 02, 2018

Coloring Outside the Lines

Morgan Guyton recently offered a helpful challenge to a widespread conservative Evangelical way of thinking...

July 2018

July 28, 2018

That’s NOT Taking the Bible Seriously

The Internet Monk blog has a post about biblical interpretation that is worth quoting at...

July 12, 2018

The Bible is What We Make It

In my Sunday school class this past Sunday, we moved into chapter 9 of the...

July 04, 2018

Diverse Diversities

My project on artificial wisdom and driverless cars has highlighted for me the need to...

July 03, 2018

What Would Jesus Do Instinctively?

Richard Beck posted one of his characteristically provocative posts recently, this one with a title...

June 2018

June 09, 2018

Apologizing for God

When you find yourself apologizing for God's demands, it is a good indicator that you...

May 2018

May 23, 2018

Passengers

I watched the movie Passengers quite some time ago, and regret having taken so long to...

May 19, 2018

Patriarchy, Modesty, and Rape Culture

In the blog post above, a colleague of mine (who is also a fellow...

April 2018

April 05, 2018

Remembering #MLK #mlk50 #mlk50forward

Perhaps it would have been better to get this post up for April 4th, but...

February 2018

February 06, 2018

Star Trek Discovery: “The War Without, The War Within”

The latest episode of Star Trek: Discovery has so much about it that is fantastic,...

November 2017

November 08, 2017

The Trolley Problem Problem

Since today I will be talking about the ethics of driverless cars, I of course...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Was Jesus Christlike?

One problem with "What Would Jesus Do?" is that it doesn't normally lead to ditching one's...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Sinful Supremacy

Steve Wiggins wrote the above in a recent blog post. Click through to read...

May 17, 2017

Welcoming Strangers, Finding Brothers and Sisters

There are several upcoming events in Indianapolis related to refugees and justice, a subject that...

March 2017

March 10, 2017

iPhone to Healthcare Calculator

Let me start by saying that Jeff Carter has rewritten a famous Fanny Crosby hymn to...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

Green Lights and Privilege

Everyone gets frustrated sometimes when they are in a hurry and they encounter a red...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

Trolley Problem Memes

I mentioned the possibility that "The Skittles Problem" might replace "The Trolley Problem" as the...

September 22, 2016

The Skittles Problem

I apologize for the language in this Facebook post, but it seemed worth sharing. I...

September 21, 2016

A Call to Repentance #BlackLivesMatter #TerenceCrutcher

The above video is by a former Tulsa police chief. Please watch it for an...

August 2016

August 01, 2016

The Immorality of “Pro Life”

I'm not sure why it took me so long to realize that the so-called "pro...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

An Appointment With Indifference

On Facebook, Diana Butler Bass shared the following words of pastor Jeremy Rutledge: A black...

July 08, 2016

Your Black Lives Matter To Me

I happen to live in a neighborhood where most of my neighbors have much darker...

July 02, 2016

Restrict Guns’ Access to People

Scott Paeth gave me permission to share something he wrote on Facebook: I just had...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Struggling with Homosexuality

There are a lot of people in our time who can be described as "struggling...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

The Ethics of Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy theories, a recent article emphasizes, are not harmless self-delusions: In an important sense every...

March 25, 2016

The Theology and Ethics of Star Wars

The above discussion of theology and ethics in Star Wars at Conway Hall includes Biblical...

March 15, 2016

The Sanctity of Life

February 2016

February 29, 2016

More Research Needed

Doing more research is admirable, when that is one's overall approach to a topic. But when...

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