Thinking Christian

This week I had a very encouraging talk with a literary agent about my book project. He likes the idea, at least; at the time of our talk he hadn’t seen the actual written proposal yet. Today I got a couple invitations to write, and I finished off an article someone else had asked me …

I promised a post on the question, “Isn’t Christian ethics a matter of self-interest after all?” It’s turning out to be two posts rather than one. Some of what I write on this will be exploratory and experimental, the product of my own reflection and not others’ thinking. That means I’m especially wide open to …

The question we’ve been asking in the latter part of this series is whether Christian ethics isn’t just a matter of getting what’s best for ourselves, a thinly disguised game of seeking our own self-interest. After all, the Bible promises rewards for doing good and warns of punishment for doing evil. Maybe Christians who claim …