Bonhoeffer examined and dismissed a number of approaches to dealing with evil. “Reasonable people,” he said, think that “with a little reason, they can pull back together a structure that has come apart at the...

The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might...

A system of justice does not need to pursue retribution. If the purpose of drug sentencing is to prevent harm, all we need to do is decide what to do with people who pose a...

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest of the world...

People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who’ve endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive...

Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world.

We believe that only government has the capacity–not to mention the political and moral responsibility–to promote the general welfare. Father Kramer as quoted in Sweet Charity?

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

Humans are unique in having the astonishing capacity to extend our sympathies far beyond the here and now. through time and space, to anywhere and anything we choose. It is our culture that decides how...

The seriousness of throwing over hell whilst still clinging to the Atonement is obvious. If there is no punishment for sin there can be no self-forgiveness for it. If Christ paid our score, and if...

We can’t have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors,...

To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.