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The moral cost of rechargeable batteries
In the DRC’s cobalt mines, desperate workers earn a few dollars a day to help power our digital lives.
Monsters and their beautiful work
Claire Dederer thinks through what it means to consume art produced by people who have said or done terrible things.
A tech-savvy Christian sexual ethic
Kate Ott challenges us to practice erotically attuned love everywhere, even online.
Thinking through abortion ethics in the classroom
What if we began with character, my students and I asked, rather than rights?
Why are we so polarized?
An ethicist, a pastor, and two podcasters weigh in.
The world through Niebuhr’s eyes
38 scholars weigh in on Reinhold Niebuhr’s life and times, his allies and adversaries, his theology and ethics
End-of-life decisions in the ICU
The Christian tradition has something to say about the ethics of extending life.
Rescuing patriotism from nationalism
Constitutional patriotism, Steven Smith argues, is both ethical and necessary.
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.
by Alan Van Wyk
What the Bible actually says about abortion, slavery, and other controversial topics
Should scripture inform our ethics? How, and which parts?
by Jane McBride
A physicist explores mystical experience
Alan Lightman asks great questions about science and religion. His answers are sometimes frustrating.
by Amy Frykholm
Take & read: New books in ethics
In the Anthropocene era, do ethics matter?
selected by Jonathan Tran
Should Christians hunt animals?
A book of essays offers an array of perspectives for and against.
by Tony Jones
All identities are intersectional
Identity markers are necessary, argues Kwame Anthony Appiah. They're also inadequate.
by Chris Hammer
Who is genetic analysis for?
There are ethical reasons to think twice before sending off your DNA.
by Justin List
James Comey didn’t write a tell-all. He wrote a handbook.
What does ethical leadership look like?
by Robin Lovin
Katie Geneva Cannon raised up black women’s voices for the sake of church and world
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.