A physicist explores mystical experience
Alan Lightman asks great questions about science and religion. His answers are sometimes frustrating.
ethics
Take & read: New books in ethics
In the Anthropocene era, do ethics matter?
Should Christians hunt animals?
A book of essays offers an array of perspectives for and against.
All identities are intersectional
Identity markers are necessary, argues Kwame Anthony Appiah. They're also inadequate.
Who is genetic analysis for?
There are ethical reasons to think twice before sending off your DNA.
James Comey didn’t write a tell-all. He wrote a handbook.
What does ethical leadership look like?
Cannon created a womanist approach to theology and wove it through her vocation as a pastor, professor, and ethicist.
Starting a conversation about anti-blackness
Christians helped create it. Can we help destroy it?
A book about ethics—and nearly everything else
John Stackhouse's real-world ethics primer covers just about every subject, but it leaves out an important one.
Jewish history tells me to be both compassionate and alert. When it comes to the Palestinian conflict, I don't know how to do both at once.
The questions private prisons raise
Is private management more efficient? Is it wrong to profit from punishment? Is the whole idea immoral in concept?
Why human rights and global ethics are inadequate concepts
In a globalized world, Michael Ignatieff argues, grand moral values have failed. What's left is virtue.
Miguel De La Torre’s ethic of hopelessness
De La Torre has little use for hope in a God who only seems to show up for Christians, never for their victims.
Humanism with space for God
Ronald Osborn integrates a biblical perspective with humanistic values.
Two old friends have a lively conversation about getting old
Martha Nussbaum and Saul Levmore draw from philosophy, literature, economics, and public policy to ruminate on aging.