ESSAY: TRUMP’S TWEETS AND ACTIONS AREN’T GOOD FRUIT – OR MORAL
MATTHEW ARBO, an assistant professor of theology and director of the Center for Faith and Public Life at Oklahoma Baptist University, responds to a US theologian’s recent defence of US President Donald Trump in the wake of a Christianity Today editorial calling for the President’s removal…
ESSAY: THE GREAT AMERICAN SLUMBERING?
In an article first published in Sightings, WILLIAM SCHWEIKER, Edward L Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, asks whether the US is experiencing the opposite of a ‘Great Awakening’…
MORALITY
I’ve been enjoying Larry Siedentop’s book, Inventing the Individual. One thing he covers is social order. PICTURE: John Simitopoulos/Unsplash Once social order – peace – was kept through brute force and submission. Those in power used brute force to keep the peace, and everyone had their place in society, submitting to someone. It works, if you […]
Sixteen per cent of Americans choose Bible as daily routine “must have”
Just 16 per cent of Americans said they would read the Bible as part of their daily routine when asked to choose between that and other activities while 37 per cent said they preferred drinking coffee, 28 per cent favoured having “something sweet” and 19 per cent preferred using social media. Such are the findings […]
SIGHT-SEEING: WHAT HAS RELIGION EVER DONE FOR ME?
AMANDA JACKSON looks at how religion has played a role in her life…
US President Trump’s missing agenda in Congress speech? Moral issues, say social conservatives
RNS A day after his first speech to Congress, President Trump was still basking in unexpected praise from the public and some pundits who saw in his delivery a man who finally came across as measured in tone and downright “presidential,” as some put it, even if his few policy prescriptions reiterated the hard line, […]
Trump border wall challenges America’s moral values: Catholic theologian
RNS President Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico raises serious questions about America’s moral standing as the poor would bear the brunt of the suffering, a leading Catholic theologian says. Rev Daniel G Groody, an associate professor of theology at Notre Dame University in Indiana, said the wall would lead to a loss of life […]