Archive for the ‘Ethics’ Category
Video Games, Intelligence, and…Happiness?
I was going through my usual blogroll, which includes the ever useful and interesting site Lifehacker, when I came across this post. A defense of video games? Being a gamer myself, I couldn’t help but click through, to see what sorts of arguments were going to be put forward.
April 24th, 2012 | Culture, Ethics, Featured, Media, Philosophy, Technology | Read More
Real Life Vigilante Sounds More Like a Movie
Oh wait, it was a movie.
It turns out Seattle has their own crime-fighting team, known as the Rain City Superhero Movement. In fact, this idea of a real life superhero is growing much larger than I realized. Vigilantes are cropping up, and people are acting like Batman to the best of their ability (while...
October 19th, 2011 | Culture, Ethics, Featured, Film, Religion | Read More
All For One, Not One For All: Thoughts on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy
“It is expedient for you that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”
This age-old attitude is at the heart of the drama in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, which begins with the international best-seller, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
A confession:...
October 11th, 2011 | Art & Literature, Book Reviews, Culture, Ethics, Human Rights, Media, Moral Philosophy, Social Justice | Read More
Freedom Sunday 2011
March 13 was Freedom Sunday, an international effort by congregations around the world to raise awareness about the problem of human trafficking and organize efforts to oppose it around the world. Freedom Sunday coincides with the first Sunday of Lent in the western calendar for a reason. It was for...
March 13th, 2011 | Culture, Ethics, Human Rights, Moral Philosophy, Social Justice, The Gospel | Read More
Social Justice and the Cross: A False Dichotomy
Something’s rotten in the state of Christendom. In the third century, Cyprian was bishop of Carthage. The church had recently survived the Decian persecutions and Cyprian controversially urged his congregants to welcome back into the body of Christ those who had denied their faith under duress. ...
October 12th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Conservative/Liberal, Culture, Ethics, Evangelicals, Human Rights, Social Justice, The Gospel | Read More
The Hobgoblin of Little Ideologies
Conservatives just ain’t what they used to be. From the Big Brother program of unwarranted domestic wiretapping to military spending in Iraq that was so great it wasn’t even reported on the annual budget, the Republican party has been wandering far from its small government roots. Of course,...
May 5th, 2010 | Conservative/Liberal, Domestic Policy, Ethics, Human Rights, Politics, Social Justice | Read More
The Fierce Urgency of Now
It’s Friday, and I’m sitting in a crowded megachurch in Los Gatos, California on a warm spring evening. A singer scratches the air with his rough voice and acoustic guitar with the sincerity only a musician with a small Facebook fan page can muster. It’s a far cry from the scores of concerts...
March 25th, 2010 | Domestic Policy, Ethics, Human Rights, Social Justice | Read More
Morality And The Wrath Of God
One of the major objections to Christianity raised by some atheists is that the God of the Bible does not seem to be a good God. In contrast to the popular portrayals of a benign and merciful Jesus who loves everyone, God (the Father) seems wrathful and angry. Nothing epitomizes this wrathful attitude...
October 5th, 2009 | Apologetics, Ethics, Philosophy, Religion | Read More
The Power of Twilight
A few weeks ago, millions rejoiced as the first trailer for New Moon, the second book-turned-film in the Twilight saga, premiered at the MTV Movie Awards. These wildly successful books continue to draw a loyal following that rivals that of Harry Potter. This is remarkable when one considers how counter-cultural...
July 1st, 2009 | Book Reviews, Culture, Ethics, Film, Philosophy | Read More
