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September 2018

September 19, 2018

Why Kavanaugh Should Withdraw

The problem with confirming Kavanaugh “even if he did it” on the premise that men...

September 29, 2016

When Is Stopping a Pipeline Social Change?

While many people were surprised by the Obama Administration's work stoppage on the pipeline, this...

September 07, 2016

Do We Need an 11th Commandment?

Christians ought to have a Trinitarian understanding of moral obligations that exist in relation to...

July 2016

July 18, 2016

Just What is Xenophobia?

In the inestimable words of Inigo Montoya in the Princess Bride, “You keep using that...

June 2015

June 05, 2015

Debunking the Myth of “Bootstrap” Morality

Despite our insistence that if people just worked harder they would improve their economic circumstances,...

April 2015

April 11, 2015

Safe Sex, Healthy Sex, Sacred Sex

A couple of years ago, when my daughter was in seventh grade, I got a...

February 2015

February 12, 2015

Forgetting Lynching at Our Peril

My third grader is a white child in a Title I school in our town....

February 10, 2015

Progressive Christian Ethics

I am a Christian social ethicist by training and by vocation. In a highly secular...

February 05, 2015

Solidarity Ethics

In my book Solidarity Ethics, I explore the richness, depth, and challenge that a theology of...