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October 2016

October 14, 2016

The Virtue Gap: Our Current Mess and the Church’s Place in it

This crazy election year has done at least one thing: It has raised to public...

September 2016

September 26, 2016

From Skittles to Syrians and What the Trolley Problem Has to Do With it

What do Skittles have to do with Syrians, and with Trolleys? In my Ethics class...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

Does Market Capitalism Alleviate Poverty? (A View from Christian Ethics)

Toward the end of Willis Jenkins' book, The Future of Ethics, he has a gem...

October 09, 2015

“Hate One Another as I Have Hated You”? (The Problem with Divine Command Theory)

Pretend, for a minute, that Christianity is based on hatred rather than on love. Sadly,...

October 05, 2015

Stop, Drop, and Reconsider: On the Relation Between Religious Belief and Action

Kathryn Tanner is a first-rate theologian. Her book, The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social...

September 2015

September 21, 2015

Pannenberg on the Strange, Political Nature of the Kingdom

In participation for my Christian Ethics class this semester, I read Wolfhart Panneberg's (the late,...

September 15, 2015

The Problem with “Biblical Morality” (and a Better Approach)

These days, an otherwise unknown country clerk, Kim Davis, gets front-page news attention for defying...

September 10, 2015

On Morality: Did Christianity Introduce Anything New?

I've been reading through Alasdair MacIntyre's A History of Ethics. It's an older text (1966)...

September 04, 2015

Notice: Upcoming Conference on Human Nature (The Science of Morality and Spirituality)

My former employer, Bethel University, is putting on what promises to be a terrific conference...

August 2015

August 24, 2015

We Don’t Need More Passion, Mr. Trump; We Need More Com-passion

The latest Trump-tastic news involves an incident in Boston in which two brothers, Scott and...

August 19, 2015

“Time’s Up”: On Ashley Madison and the Morality of Vigilante Hacking

Technology is powerful, complicated, and dangerous. A lot of people who signed up for an...

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