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April 2013

April 25, 2013

The rule of my heart is mine! And no other’s!

In the Patheos Hindu channel, Ambaa gives her perspective on Jedis and gnosticism, inspired by...

April 22, 2013

“You’re Gonna Have to Serve Somebody”

In yesterday's post, I talked about the unenviable invulnerability of indifference, and, it so happened...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

What should we be hurt by?

Poking around the internet, I ran across two interesting articles that seemed to be linked...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Mormon Enthusiasm for the Self-Made Man

I received a free review copy of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life as...

December 28, 2012

Javert and Valjean at Prayer

The two things I found most frustrating about the Les Mis movie were the camerawork and...

December 06, 2012

Can you Cyrano de Bergerac your moral philosophy?

Yesterday, I linked to Luke Muelhauser's commentary on the inability of philosophers to come to...

December 03, 2012

For I am a Woman Under Authority

This weekend, I attended a silent retreat. The timing of the retreat on Saturday made...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

I see your trilemma, and raise you a tetralemma!

Over at Cross Examined, Bob Seidensticker has an objection to C.S. Lewis's Trilemma, and John...

November 28, 2012

The theologians Chris Hallquist doesn’t believe in

Chris Hallquist (who blogs in the Patheos Atheist channel as the Uncredible Hallq) is in...

November 21, 2012

The Monster is Father of the Man

As I warned you, I’m taking some time before I write anything specifically about being...

November 10, 2012

Steelmanning one of Dennett’s arguments

This post is part of a series discussing Daniel Dennett’s Breaking the Spell. Back in the cultural...

November 09, 2012

If only I could throw dinner parties for semi-fictional characters…

I've been reading Hillary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety, and I'll admit I don't like...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

What Freedom from Moral Sensibilities Feels Like

Writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Kevin Dutton underwent transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to...

October 11, 2012

The Generic God of the Stump Speech

Patheos bloggers are roundtabling on issues of faith and politics in the run-up to the...

May 2012

May 02, 2012

Winning a Moral Arms Race?

The first person to comment on my post about The Hunger Games and not seeing...

April 2012

April 02, 2012

If only I weren’t determined to fight about free will!

The Chronicle of Higher Education is holding an essay symposium on Free Will and I...

February 2012

February 14, 2012

Whaddya Wanna Get Married For?

Sorry this is late, but what could be better on Valentine's Day than pouring kerosene...

February 09, 2012

Divorce and the Doctrine of Individualism

This post is part of a debate on gay marriage. Matt led off with a post...

November 2011

November 02, 2011

How do you pick a teacher?

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a term for people who are too ignorant to recognize that...

March 2011

March 20, 2011

Trying to Will Your Beliefs (A Case Study)

There's been a fair amount of discussion on this blog lately about whether people can...

January 2011

January 27, 2011

Submitting to Others

This is part of a series on covenant marriage, and, hopefully, it’s becoming clearer what...

January 25, 2011

Exercising Self Control

This post, as counter-intuitive as it seems, is part of a series on covenant marriage....

January 10, 2011

Ethics Without Other People are Empty

I don’t understand ethical systems or teleology meant for humans that doesn’t talk about our...