When the researchers tested their hypothesis on managers who were asked to make a judgment call involving a conscientious employee who needed to go home early one day, they found that the managers who believed most strongly that they were good people came to extreme conclusions: They either let the employee off for the rest of the day with full pay, or insisted the employee stay and work full hours.
I struggle with the issue of how to balance my desire for a good life with my neighbors’ rights for the same. To the extent that I can only spend my money once, this is a zero sum game. I either spend my money on myself or on others, whether directly or as a bequest at my death.
An editorial in the Anglican Journal begins by recounting the history of a case of alleged abuse against students at a school connected to the
The Presiding Bishop said: “We cannot triumph over global poverty . . . unless we also address climate change, as the two phenomena are intimately related. However, a third critical element is missing from the discussion. Unless we take an honest look at industrial animal agriculture and the food choices that support this system, our progress in mitigating world hunger and climate change will be significantly hampered.
The International Fair Trade Association, an umbrella group of organizations in more than 70 countries, defines fair trade as reflecting “concern for the social, economic and environmental well-being of marginalized small producers” and does “not maximize profit at their expense. The New York Times writes on the increasing market share of Fair Trade items.
Fallibilism is the idea that our knowledge is imperfect, provisional, subject to revision in the face of new evidence. Fallibilism says: Here’s what I know to a moral certainty, know well enough to live by. But I could be wrong.
Anita Roddick [came to see] the value of spiritual development bringing about material change to the way we live and act – her experience of the annual Greenbelt festival, showed a practical vitality and intellectual energy that was far from the stereotypes of Christianity she had often met, and the stuffiness of the church she had personally encountered.
Scott Gunn at Inclusive Church writes: “Here’s my idea. Let’s talk about rumors, but only for humor and jest. We could use a few laughs in the Communion.”
Last week, USA Today reported on the growing trend of doctors’ refusing to treat patients for religious reasons. The phenomenon goes beyond abortion and fetal tissue research and includes such matters as prescribing Viagra or performing in-vitro fertilization. At issue in many of these cases is gay discrimination
Barbara Trepagnier, author of Silent Racism: How Well-Meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide, says that people should replace the question of whether or not they are racist with asking themselves how they are racist.