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The Morality of the Story

Oliver O'Donovan and Alisdair MacIntyre on how morality and story must go together.

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Desiderius Erasmus and “It wasn’t me, it was God”

It's time to reconsider the phrase, “It wasn’t me. It was God.” The phrase carries within it an inadequate account of humility.

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Eggsploitation: Giving Voice to the Women hurt by the Fertility Industry

[youtube qcYWxVdqR8Y 640x360] Few issues are more sensitive than those surrounding infertility and our attempts to overcome it. Because infertility is so rarely talked about (or talked about badly), it&

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Starbucks, Boycotts, and (Not) Buying Coffee: The Need for Theological Ethics

[youtube UnNphL-fHoM 640x480] Maggie Gallagher and the folks at the National Organization for Marriage are taking on Starbucks for their position on gay marriage, a position that they outline

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Casey Anthony and the American Justice System

(two posts in a ROW! Matt's going to die of shock) I was a bit too young to remember much about the O.J. Simpson murder trial, though

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Carrying the Fallen

Three American flags draped the coffins lying on the cargo floor of my C-17.  It was only three hours earlier that I had received a phone call informing me

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Arguing with George William Curtis

I'd never heard of George William Curtis before this past Saturday. A quote of his popped up on my friend's facebook wall, in what I assume

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Foucault's Discipline and Punish and the Abortion Debate or Why You Should Buy Matt's Book

In Michel Foucault’s book Discipline and Punish he argues that over the past 200 years the emphasis of western justice has shifted from punishing the body to punishing the soul. To support this he cites a number of shifts in […]

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Thomas Says: Killing Plants and Animals

As a way of getting my blogging going, I thought I’d start a series of posts on some teachings of Thomas Aquinas.  I think this will be interesting (at

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Autonomy, Eternity, and Value

We are thus stuck between two unrealistic views of the autonomy of the individual. The first is that the self can be autonomous forever; the second is that only the

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Air Force Morals

Last week I had to watch the Air Force's latest attempt to stem immoral behavior through institutional education and training. I sat in an auditorium with about 50

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Interesting Reading for the Weekend

I know it's Easter today and I have a ton of Easter thoughts. However, as I was perusing the blogs tonight I found some very interesting reading. For