Rescuing patriotism from nationalism
Constitutional patriotism, Steven Smith argues, is both ethical and necessary.
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I wish Francis Su had been my third-grade math teacher
Su’s book is about math and human flourishing. It’s also about how to be a teacher.
A Kierkegaardian biography of Kierkegaard
Clare Carlisle helps readers struggle with what it means to be human in the world.
What the Bible actually says about abortion, slavery, and other controversial topics
Should scripture inform our ethics? How, and which parts?
A physicist explores mystical experience
Alan Lightman asks great questions about science and religion. His answers are sometimes frustrating.
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?