Starting a conversation about anti-blackness
Christians helped create it. Can we help destroy it?
ethics
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.
The comedy series doesn’t feel didactic—despite the fact that it features actual moral philosophy lessons.
Jesus wants us to be likable—but more importantly, he wants us to love.
The many colors of betrayal
When does compromise descend into treason or apostasy?
Pathologically moral
In her memoir, comedian Maggie Rowe lays bare a struggle with excessive guilt that rivals Martin Luther’s.
The joy of things and the trap of excess
An ethicist and an anthropologist ask: How much is too much?
Can war be beautiful?
Fiction and photographs offer nuanced depictions of conflict.
Midlife happiness through the (narrow) lens of science
How can we live well after 40? asks Barbara Bradley Hagerty. She could have consulted the wisdom traditions.