Religion and the sex scandal are still closely linked, though the targets of public outrage have morphed: it is often…
Religion, spirituality, and the sexual scandal
morality
Teaching Catholicism and sexual morality
The dismissal of Kenneth Howell, a University of Illinois adjunct professor of Catholic history and thought, has generated much discussion…
Religions and rights: An interview with Richard Amesbury
Though currently on sabbatical at the University of Zürich, Richard Amesbury teaches religious and philosophical ethics at the Claremont School…
The science of morality
Sam Harris, author and vehement secularist, argues that science can create a moral code as effectively as religion can.
Values for the Post-Crisis Economy
The World Economic Forum has released "Faith and the Global Agenda: Values for the Post-Crisis Economy," an annual report on…
No view from nowhere
I’ll start with a comment about my own angle of approach. There is of course no view from nowhere, and…
Speech and space
Like Webb Keane, I have come to see some metapragmatic elements in evangelical culture as bringing about some important and…
Christian moderns
I argue that the moral narrative of modernity is a projection onto chronological time of a view of human moral…
Niebuhrian in the White House
Barack Obama is often described as some kind of Niebuhrian, a tag he has encouraged by describing Reinhold Niebuhr as…
President Obama’s Catholic sensibility
President Barack Obama's May 17 commencement address at the University of Notre Dame deftly demonstrated the president's unique ability to…