The bishops of Virginia have released a statement calling clergy to protest a rally being held in Charlottesville on Saturday. The rally is called “Unite the Right” and is in response to the city’s removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee and renaming of Lee Park to Emancipation Park.
“Do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.” The messages of Sunday’s readings are timely reminders of our duties as Christians.
Violence against the Rohingya people continues in Rakhine State in Myanmar. Armed forces are “killing men, slaughtering children, raping women, burning and looting houses, forcing
This week’s review is the ethically challenged film ‘Our Kind of Traitor,’ a John le Carre novel brought to film starring Ewan McGregor
Massimo Pigliucci, Professor of Philosophy at CUNY-City College, speaks about Stoicism and death in an original video for Aeon magazine. Pigliucci explains that suicide was considered
Is there a morality that isn’t grounded in religious faith? Who are the great thinkers and moralists of that movement? Sociologist Lori Fazzino tells an interviewer that atheists are misunderstood, and just as moral as Evangelical Christians, in an interview about her graduate work and personal spiritual history.
Comparing meat-eating to Christian virtue ethics, Grist’s food writer, Nathanael Johnson, tries to find arguments in favor of meat-eating as a moral choice. Johnson notes that, as
New York high school student Tiffany Sun re-examines the Trolley Problem: Tiffany said the first step to conducting her research was coming up with experimental
On Being, the Peabody-award winning radio show about the human condition, hosts a conversation between Michael McCullough, professor of psychology, and Arthur Zajonc, physicist, about
a more healthy way to look at clerical life is to remember that it is supposed to be at its heart about being very much yourself and very much about living life with passion. That means all kinds of passion. Oh yes, that kind of passion too.