I’ve been overwhelmed, mostly in a good way, by the reviews of Peter Singer and Christian Ethics: Beyond Polarization that have come out in the past several months. While generally positive about the book, there is a...
Read MoreOn Friday Nov 16th at Fordham University in New York, Peter Singer and three theologians shared a podium to discuss the theology and ethics of the treatment of non-human animals, particularly in light of the practice of...
Read MoreWe’ve spent a lot of time at CMT.com talking about animal ethics. If find this topic to be important, you might also be interested to learn of a panel discussion at Fordham two weeks from tomorrow titled Christians and...
Read MoreTomorrow is one of my favorite feasts of the whole liturgical year: that which celebrates the Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. (Raphael, in the opinion of this bioethicist at least, has one of the best monikers of all...
Read MoreCmt.com blogger Charlie Camosy’s new book, Peter Singer and Christian Ethics: Beyond Polarization, was released this week in the U.K. and will soon be available in the U.S. If you are a fan of this blog, and share our...
Read MoreA Canadian study and commentary on the global practices of euthanasia was released in November and has received much attention. It was highlighted by the New York Times, Peter Singer, and yesterday Andrew Sullivan noted it....
Read MoreBy the end of the day on Tuesday we should know whether Mississippi has added the following to their state constitution: Section 33. Person defined. As used in this Article III of the state constitution, “The term...
Read MoreSaturday 10/15 was the first anniversary of the ‘Open Hearts, Open Minds’ Princeton Abortion Conference–a historic gathering that brought a wildly diverse group of people together to find new ways to think and...
Read MoreMany atheist utilitarians have long resisted any concept of objectivity in ethics, in part because they do not have any metaphysical beliefs which are capable of grounding such claims. But with the release of Parfit’s On...
Read MoreJoe Carter over at First Things has a post up this morning which claims, in rather strong terms, that Christians should not seriously engage with Peter Singer. Indeed, for him, doing so is “silliness.” Carter begins...
Read MoreThere has been some time to digest the conference ‘Christian Ethics Engages Peter Singer’ at Oxford a couple of weeks ago. For anyone that wishes to watch some of the sessions, all of them are available on the...
Read MoreThere is much more to say about this past week’s amazing events at Oxford than I can fit into this blog post, and I will try to do so in a more systematic way once I’ve had some more time to think about everything. ...
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