Spirituality, Ethics and Financial Reform
Spirituality is the dimension of being human which enables us to create, discover, or encounter meaning, purpose and value in our lives. Spirituality opens us to experiences the richness of life which...
View ArticleA Means to an End
It was 1975. In a classroom with about three dozen college freshman, a simple question was asked: do the means justify the ends? Morally, does achieving a result that is good allow an individual to do...
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The Way We Live – and Views that Divide
It’s a course I usually don’t teach. But an instructor was needed. While it’s outside of my program (graduate psychology), I agreed to be available for this undergraduate course because of the topic:...
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Ethics and Class
We stood in line and waited. And we waited. And we waited some more. The wait was almost three quarters of an hour. While time passed as we talked and laughed, waiting marked most of the day. It was...
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Values to Live By
How do you want to live? What values do you aim to hold as guiding principles for your life? What makes for a good society in which to live? Most of us were raised with a set of values. As children, we...
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Church Participation and the Growing Number of Unaffiliated
It’s happening – and happening around the world: an increasing number of people no longer participate in traditional religious groups and label themselves as not affiliated with religion. It’s not a...
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Breaking Bad: Lessons in Morals and Ethics
[SPOILER ALERT: Stop reading if you have not watched the finale of Breaking Bad." This entry contains discussion of plot points.] On Sunday, September 29, AMC aired the final episode of the series,...
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Ethics. The Common Good. Personal Freedom. Vaccination.
Many of my childhood Christmas memories blend together. Generally, I have happy memories of Christmas with family as a child. There were some funny moments, like when the artificial Christmas tree was...
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What Does It Mean to Be a Progressive Christian?
I sat with a small group of colleagues one Saturday to engage in the discussion. We describe ourselves as “Progressive Christians,” but we wondered: what does that really mean? As expected, there...
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What Would Jesus Want?
WWJD? What Would Jesus Do? How about this? What would Jesus want us to do? Anyone who seriously reads the New Testament gospels will be uncomfortable when they realize what Jesus actually wants from...
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