morality

Trump border wall challenges America’s moral values: Catholic theologian

By Josephine McKenna — February 3, 2017
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The president’s proposed wall with Mexico would hurt the poor the most. says a leading Catholic theologian.

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.

How Americans ‘got’ religion

By Martin E. Marty — September 21, 2016
I can advise readers that nowhere else are they likely to find a more informed, impassioned story of how Americans in these years “got” and kept -- or abandoned -- religion.

Activists: West is ignoring genocide of Middle East religious minorities

By Lauren Markoe — September 8, 2016
(RNS) The plight of Christians in the Middle East is all but ignored, say their advocates.

New Vatican manual warns that sex is not just for pleasure

By Josephine McKenna — August 26, 2016
(RNS) Take your sexuality seriously, the church advises young people.

Poll: Evangelicals differ from most Americans on transgender morality

By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 14, 2016
(RNS) Evangelical Christians are more likely to believe gender change is morally wrong.

Where have all the grown-ups gone?

By David P. Gushee — April 26, 2016
About the scary decline of all major American institutions.

It’s chaos out there: Christian moral pluralism in America today (COMMENTARY)

By David P. Gushee — October 23, 2015
(RNS) Recently I have had two conversations that reveal the incredible breadth of moral pluralism that exists not just in America but in the Christian population of America.

Religious or not, many Americans see a creator’s hand

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — October 7, 2015
(RNS) A new survey, which asked no questions about evolution, looks at the origin of the universe and human morality in Christian terms.

Frans de Waal on Ken Ham, Richard Dawkins, and morality without religion

By Chris Stedman — February 28, 2014
Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal speaks with RNS about the Bill Nye and Ken Ham creationism debate, "selfish genes," and what humanists can learn from religion.

Not your mother’s morals: An interview with Jonathan Fitzgerald

By Jonathan Merritt — March 19, 2013
At 31, Jonathan Fitzgerald has become one of the most thoughtful cultural observers among a rising generation of Christians. Here, he talks about his new book, morality, pop culture, and whether he believes God is “still important” today.
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