The Moral Lessons of “Project Nim”
“No, no. That’s not what that is there for.” So exclaim Nim’s teachers as the adolescent Chimp tries *ahem* pleasure himself with a cat. It’s a common expression, something we tell our kids all the...
Read MoreLessons from the Unforgiving Servant
Sunday, September 11, 2011 – Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sir 27:30 – 28:7; Ps 103:1-2,3-4,9-10,11-12; Rom 14:7-9; Mt 18: 21-35 “Can anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the LORD?” (Sir...
Read MoreDialing 911 on 9/11
Over at my other blogging “home” at the journal Political Theology’s There Is Power in the Blog, I posted the following brief reflection as the first contribution to a series this week on Ten Years after 9/11:...
Read MoreTechnology is the Future! Oh, wait…
Two institutions that have been in the hot seat since the start of the recession are health care and education. Both have out-of-control costs, with comparatively very little to show for those costs, making them targets of...
Read MoreThe Overwhelming Desire to Connect Wealth and Holiness: Primordial Social Sin?
Last week, in my post American Scandal & Disgrace: the Criminalization of Poverty, I highlighted the ways our social structures treat poverty itself as a crime. Within our public discourse and our unspoken social mores,...
Read MoreTo Choose Is to Lose
“To Choose Is To Lose,” so say the authors of a new study on decision-making that is the subject of a recent story in The New York Times Magazine. The researchers found that when people had to make a lot of choices, they...
Read More“Human Costs and the Moral Challenges of a Broken Economy:” Bishop Blaire’s Labor Day Statement
This coming Monday, as a nation, we will celebrate Labor Day. Often, Labor day is simply seen as marking the “end of summer.” Yet, every year, the USCCB Committee of Domestic Justice and Human Development releases...
Read MoreBinding & Loosing: Restorative Justice
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 127 Ezekiel 33:7-9 Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9 Romans 13:8-10 Matthew 18:15-20 Today’s readings from Ezekiel, Romans, and Matthew speak to our obligations to one another as a...
Read MoreAre We all Michael Vick? Our Addiction to Animal Cruelty, Part II
John Berkman and I are in the midst of an exchange designed to draw attention to the issue of cruelty to non-human animals–particularly from the perspective of Christianity and Catholic Moral Theology. Check back in the...
Read MoreToward Genuine Exchange: Deconstructing the Linear Binary
In an invited post for the blog of the exciting new Center for FaithJustice, I once again tried to show how the liberal/conservative binary just doesn’t work even in the political arena from which it came, much less in a...
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