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Jonathan Tran
Jonathan Tran teaches theological ethics at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is author of The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory and Foucault and Theology.
Necessary, not good
Affirmative action is important. It’s also based on a lie.
Getting justice and getting it right
Stanley Hauerwas’s The Peaceable Kingdom at 40
Me and my Rhode Island Reds
Having cats did not prepare our family for chickens.
Anti-racism’s mission drift
Privileged progressives have turned their attention from structures and systems to sentimentalism.
Thinking through abortion ethics in the classroom
What if we began with character, my students and I asked, rather than rights?
Giving disappointment its due
Some of our dreams won’t be fulfilled. While this may be a mercy, that’s no consolation.
Looking to heaven without looking past earth
In the Christian imagination, the two rightly go together.
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