Tag Archives: Morality

Lessons from MLK

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s debt to theology and natural law: Those who praise the modern civil rights movement, but who also want to keep morality and theology absent from public discourse, seldom mention King’s reliance on natural law in his justly famous letter. Scholars such as the late John Rawls were at great pains to …

January 16, 2012 – 6:30 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Penn State’s Missing Outrage

“Penn State’s Missing Outrage,” an alternate perspective on “Losing Control…“

November 14, 2011 – 11:35 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Life and Choices | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

The Essential Missing Prologue To All Apologetics

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Arrogant Christianity?

The practice of Christian apologetics faces a new and mostly unrecognized hurdle. Although this hurdle’s pieces and parts are familiar to apologists and worldview thinkers, few have recognized their full implications. It is the new fundamental obstacle to listeners’ and readers’ saying “yes” to Jesus Christ and to Christianity, so much so that for many …

December 13, 2010 – 11:41 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Postmodernism/ Relativism, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (14)

Mary Midgley’s Near-Answer To My Lifelong Question

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Mary Midgley and Ethics

I was not a believer in Jesus Christ when I left home for college in 1974. My brother and I had both been very interested in the occult, and around that time I must have read dozens of books by people like Ruth Montgomery and Jeanne Dixon, purveyors of belief in psychic phenomena. My recent …

March 21, 2009 – 5:25 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)