For the Easter season, I am reading the Books of Homilies, using John Griffiths’ 1859 edition.
Category: Ethics
THE BOOKS OF HOMILIES: Book 1—XII. Against strife and contention
For the Easter season, I am reading the Books of Homilies, using John Griffiths’ 1859 edition.
THE BOOKS OF HOMILIES: Book 1—XI. Against whoredom and adultery
For the Easter season, I am reading the Books of Homilies, using John Griffiths’ 1859 edition.
THE BOOKS OF HOMILIES: Book 1—X. An exhortation to obedience
For the Easter season, I am reading the Books of Homilies, using John Griffiths’ 1859 edition.
The ‘Sin’ of Empathy? (with Hannah Anderson and Joe Rigney)
The moral character of empathy has recently been a subject of contentious online debate among Christians. Joe Rigney and Hannah Anderson, who have both engaged in these disputes with their different concerns, join me for an extended discussion of the question, hoping to clear up some misunderstandings on both sides, and to break some differences down to size.
Within the conversation we mention various articles and other material.
Joe Rigney
The Enticing Sin of Empathy
Dangerous Compassion
Do You Feel My Pain?
Man Rampant Interview
Abigail Dodds
The Beauty and Abuse of Empathy
Paul Bloom
The Case Against Empathy
Against Empathy
Edwin Friedman
A Failure of Nerve
My summary of A Failure of Nerve
Brené Brown
On Empathy
Daring Greatly
Shame and Empathy
‘Turning of Days’, with Hannah Anderson
The whole cast are joined by our friend and regular guest Hannah Anderson for a discussion of her new illustrated book, Turning of Days: Lessons from Nature, Season, and Spirit.
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If you would like to support the production of the podcast, you can do so over on Patreon.
What Does the Bible Say About Gender?
Aaron Renn of The Masculinist invited me to join him for a livestreamed conversation yesterday. We started off with a discussion of how to learn from the Bible’s teaching about gender and then got into a host of other questions.
Does Free Speech Matter?
Susannah Black joins me for another discussion, this time on the subject of freedom of speech, the various senses in which it is spoken of, and whether, where, and how it is a good thing.
Vaccine Ethics, with Dr C. Ben Mitchell
Matt, Derek, and I are joined by Dr C. Ben Mitchell for a discussion, following on from last week’s, of how we should think about some of the ethical questions raised by COVID vaccines.
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If you would like to support the production of the podcast, you can do so over on Patreon.
We’ve GOT to Talk About Vaccines, with Dr. Gilbert Meilaender
Matt, Derek, and I are joined by Dr Gilbert Meilaender for a timely discussion of how churches and Christians should handle COVID vaccines and differences of opinion concerning them.
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If you would like to support the production of the podcast, you can do so over on Patreon.
