David P. Gushee
David P. Gushee is an author at Religion News Service.
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COMMENTARY: A Flood of Biblical Proportions
By David P. Gushee — September 2, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) “My eyes fail from weeping. I am in torment within, my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. What can I say for you? With what can I compare you, O Daughter of […]
COMMENTARY: Sept. 11 Has Taught Us to Kill or Be Killed
By David P. Gushee — September 9, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) I made a commitment to read the report of the Sept. 11 commission before the third anniversary of those horrible attacks arrived. Two movie images came into my mind as I read the […]
COMMENTARY: Caring for God’s Creation
By David P. Gushee — July 13, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) It is becoming increasingly clear that human beings are doing significant damage to God’s good creation and to the creatures who inhabit it, including ourselves. We know what to do about the problems […]
COMMENTARY: The Fragility of Civilization
By David P. Gushee — June 15, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) Despite having no big-name stars, this summer’s first true blockbuster movie is the ecodisaster thriller “The Day After Tomorrow.” I saw it recently and was deeply impressed by its powerful depiction of the […]
COMMENTARY: The Centrality of Forgiveness
By David P. Gushee — May 6, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) The couple sits in front of me, weary with life and with each other. They barely glance at each other as we talk. Their problems are many, but their most central issue is […]
COMMENTARY: On the Boykin Affair
By David P. Gushee — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) I once wrote a book in which I envisioned the day when we might be able to get “beyond the culture wars” in American society. Perhaps that day will one day come. But […]
COMMENTARY: Competing Loyalties Test Our Moral Judgments
By David P. Gushee — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) I received a letter recently from someone criticizing my just war reasoning related to a possible Iraq war. The criticism was not that I was employing just war theory wrongly but that I […]
COMMENTARY: The Battle for Our Children’s Minds
By David P. Gushee — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) Imagine that you are trying to get into the mind of someone. Your goal is to communicate some kind of message to that person so that he or she will not forget it. […]
COMMENTARY: The Achievement of Toleration
By David P. Gushee — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) In the past, I argued that some beliefs are worth dying for. I cautioned, however, that the New Testament teaches that by no means are we to kill for our faith. Now, I […]
COMMENTARY: The Tragedy of War
By David P. Gushee — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) It is impossible to write about anything other than the war. Who cares about faith-based initiatives, welfare reform or the future of Social Security right now? That is, of course, one of the […]
COMMENTARY: Beliefs Worth Dying For
By David P. Gushee — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) Memorial Day, just past, is the ultimate example of a national holiday out of step with the postmodern temper. A day set aside for consecrated remembering of those who have paid the ultimate […]
COMMENTARY: On the New Bishop Robinson
By David P. Gushee — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) The decision by Episcopal Church leaders to select the openly gay cleric Gene Robinson as a bishop has sent shock waves far beyond the Anglican Communion. In tandem with another decision that essentially […]
COMMENTARY: Gay Marriage? How We Got Here
By David P. Gushee — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) The Massachusetts Supreme Court made a decision last month that may open the way to gay marriage in America. Blame for that decision does not rest solely on the four judges who signed […]
COMMENTARY: An Iraq War Retrospective
By David P. Gushee — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) The swift and devastating defeat of the Iraqi regime brought to an end the many months of debate about the morality of such a war. Reviewing my many columns about the subject over […]
COMMENTARY: How Shall We Respond to Our Critics?
By David P. Gushee — January 1, 2003
c. 2003 Religion News Service (David P. Gushee is an associate professor of moral philosophy at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.) (UNDATED) I remember an evangelist who used to come uninvited every year to my university. He brought a box to stand on, set himself up at a busy campus crossroads, and went straight to […]
