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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 […]

Is Polyamory on the Horizon in American Culture?

Even before the Supreme Court exercised raw judicial power and wrongly redefined marriage, social conservatives predicted that removing the conjugal (or complementary) basis of marriage would leave marriage open to further redefinition. Their warnings were met with scorn by progressives, who believed that conservative fears were unfounded.

Critical theory and Christian ethics: can they co-exist?

On May 15, The Gospel Coalition published a very good essay by Neil Shenvi and Pat Sawyer arguing that critical theory is incompatible with Christianity. Considering the level of confusion […]

Can weaponry be humane?

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on a new piece of weaponry that the United States military has developed. The sophistication of the new missile—the R9X—is breathtaking. In short, […]

Mayor Pete’s God-talk and Selective Outrage

One of the rules of modern discourse is to keep God, or religious-based argument, out of the arena of politics. Because we’re a country conditioned by an ahistorical interpretation of […]

Three Christian Moral Ingredients at the American Founding

A book on natural law and religious liberty that I am reading for an academic colloquium I am participating in is bringing to the forefront of my mind the uniqueness […]

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