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Ethics and Public Theology in a Secular Age

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Fetal Tissue and The COVID-19 Vaccine

November 17, 2020

After tweeting that the two vaccines trials gaining most attention — Pfizer (90% effective) and Moderna (94.5% effective) — did not involve fetal cells, a fellow ethicist and friend helpfully […]

Abortion and Single-Issue Voting: A Reply to Phil Vischer and Skye Jethani

October 19, 2020

Phil Vischer recently posted on his YouTube channel a video of Pastor Skye Jethani, who argues that abortion should not be the sole determining factor in how Christians vote. On the surface, […]

Ten Short Theses on Churches, Wisdom, and Civil Disobedience

July 31, 2020

Government prediction about the number of COVID-19 deaths was drastically overplayed, as was the rate of mortality. As always, humility and fallibility about the present should inform how we’ll look […]

July 4th and the Consistency of the Declaration’s Ideals

July 3, 2020

            This year, given recent events, the celebration of our nation’s birth will likely be a bit more muted than in years past. Revisionist efforts like the 1619 Project are attempting […]

A Christian Conversation about Voting in 2020

April 20, 2020

A hypothetical conversation… “Christian A: Voting for President Trump is hypocritical and compromises Christian moral witness. He is incompetent and is dangerous to America. Christian B: Well, I certainly understand […]

Killing in the Name of the Economy? Ethical Dilemmas and the COVID-19 Crisis

Yesterday, Washington Post reporter Sarah Pulliam Bailey published a very interesting piece on how policymakers, ethicists, and religious leaders are thinking through the apparent dilemma of practicing extreme measures to […]

What does a Christian owe their neighbor in a time of crisis? Martin Luther and an ethic of responsible love.

Like many around me, I have thought about what is required of the Christian in a time of national crisis, much like the one presented to us with COVID-19. I […]

He’s making a list and checking it twice: How Santa Claus explains ethical theory

We all know how the story goes at Christmastime: Only the well-behaved children are the ones that get Christmas presents. How many of us as children heard this oft-repeated warning […]

Kanye, Conversion, and the Ethics of Learned Obedience

A lot of news has circulated around Kanye West’s very public conversion to Christianity. Though we should be overjoyed at the news that Kanye West has become a born-again Christian, […]

Mass Shootings and the Church’s Opportunity in Confronting the American Male Mindset

Saturday’s mass shooting in El Paso is an unmitigated tragedy. What we know at this point is that, once again, a shooter was guided by a naked white supremacy and […]

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