ethics
Paige Patterson, ousted Baptist seminary leader, to teach ethics course
By Adelle M. Banks — October 2, 2018
(RNS) — Patterson plans to co-teach a mid-October weeklong class on 'Christian Ethics: The Bible and Moral Issues' with Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary.
Praise God and pass the plasticware
By Paul O'Donnell — September 26, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Home to the holidays for three religions, Israel uses more plastic cups per capita than any other people in the world.
Vatican document on economic ethics is a dismal read on a timely topic
By Thomas Reese — May 21, 2018
(RNS) — The Vatican's new document on economic ethics, 'Oeconomicae et pecuniariae quaestiones,' gives theological backing to Pope Francis’ views on the economy, one of the major themes of his papacy. Too bad it's so badly written its timely and important message may not get read.
The race to colonize Mars is on. One astronomy professor isn’t sure we should go.
By Holly Meyer — May 14, 2018
(USA Today Network) — The race to colonize Mars is underway, but one astronomy professor thinks we should slow down and figure out if there is life on Earth's planetary neighbor before our exploration destroys it.
What Comey learned from theologian Reinhold Niebuhr about ethical leadership
By Christopher Beem — April 24, 2018
(The Conversation) — Reviewers have noted the influence of one particular 20th-century American Christian philosopher in James' Comey's new book: Reinhold Niebuhr.
As Facebook reels, Silicon Valley dabbles in ethics
By Jack Jenkins — April 11, 2018
(RNS) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before Congress put a spotlight on a major shift within the American tech sector: a rapid, albeit uneven, embrace of ethics.
Mennonite investigator will testify in death penalty case
By Associated Press — March 11, 2018
(AP) — Greta Lindecrantz has been jailed for nearly two weeks.
New light of the anti-abortion movement — an accomplished woman with Down syndrome
By Delta Systems — March 7, 2018
(RNS) — Anti-abortion groups are particularly worried about the high proportion of women choosing to terminate fetuses with Down syndrome after prenatal testing, which has become increasingly sophisticated and accurate.
Why deporting the ‘Dreamers’ is immoral
By The Conversation — March 6, 2018
(The Conversation) — Protecting the Dreamers isn’t about rejecting the rule of law. Rather, it reflects respect for the morality that the law proclaims.
Are you a good person? How can you tell?
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 26, 2017
(USA Today) — Social psychologists, ethicists, and religious leaders tell how to take a moral measure of yourself.
Can ‘Game of Thrones’ teach us about the meaning of life?
By Diane Winston — September 23, 2017
(The Conversation) — 'Game of Thrones' storytelling gives its audience the opportunity to contemplate and debate fundamental concerns about the meaning of human life – issues that are central to all world religions.
Baptist ethicist Robert Parham dead at 63
By Adelle M. Banks — March 6, 2017
(RNS) A moderate Baptist, he left a Southern Baptist Convention commission and started his ethics center in 1991 as the denomination grew more conservative in a resurgence that began about a decade earlier.
HBO’s ‘Westworld’: Robot sex and the nature of the soul
By Kimberly Winston — December 2, 2016
(RNS) The show, which concludes Sunday (Dec. 4), raises theological questions about what it means to be human and what it costs us to sacrifice our humanity for momentary pleasure.
Sex outside of marriage can be holy, according to this Christian minister
By Jonathan Merritt — July 21, 2016
"Good Christian Sex" is a Chicago pastor's attempt to free Christians from shame about having sex outside of marriage.
6 life and death questions for ethicist Arthur Caplan
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — June 30, 2016
(RNS) Bioethicist Arthur Caplan looks at the moral quandaries posed by Zika and the Olympics, the right-to-die law in California and more headliner issues.