Anti-Gay Bigotry, Sincere Belief, and Christianity There's a meme going around on social media that looks like this: A recent Huffington Post article, " The Myth of Christian Dis...

Kantian Ethics, Part 3: The Second Formulation of the Categorical Imperative Before such things as proof-reading, indexing, vacationing, and preparing for a new school year distracted me, I was offering on this blog a...

Norman Malcolm's Ontological Argument Apologies for not getting this up sooner. I've been unusually busy since getting back from my conference in Detroit, trying to balance m...

"Benign" Christian Patriarchy and 50 Shades of Grey: A Response to Jared Wilson A few days ago at The Gospel Coalition's blog, Jared Wilson offered a critique of the bestselling erotic novel, 50 Shades of Grey --in ...

The Question of Biblical Inerrancy: Comments Posted on Another Blog Some days ago, a religion professor posted on his blog the following quote from one of my articles (the RDPulpit piece on same-sex marriage...

Rick Perry's New Ad: A Translation One more political post, just because it's the season for that sort of thing. It occurs to me that some people may not understand why Ri...

Richard Swinburne, the Ethics of Homosexuality, and the Ethics of Love (Note to readers: I ran out of time on this before being able to track down and embed links to all the discussions I reference--but I though...

Ethical Relativism vs Preference Utilitarianism There’s been a provocative discussion going on in the comments section of an earlier post, “ Spitting at the conventional wisdom .” Specific...

Guns and Islam: A Philosophical Public Service Announcement The mass shooting by a pair of radicalized Muslims in San Bernardino fueled two ongoing conversations in this country: one about guns, the o...