Is Trying Really Good Enough? ‘The Good Place’ Has a C-word Problem
On October 8th, 2019, Jameela Jamil, one of the lead actresses on the surprising hit…
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“You’re F*cked”: How Pouncing on Mistakes Helps the Right Escape Moral Accountability
“If you make a mistake, another mistake, there is a very severe possibility that you’re…
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Captain America: Civil Religion (And Why Donald Trump Thinks He’s Batman)
As of this writing, Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War is 2016’s biggest movie worldwide. If pop…
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Even if you’re morally opposed to abortion, are you morally obligated to support the Hyde Amendment…
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A Moral Galaxy: War and Suffering in “Star Wars: The Old Republic”
A new Star Wars film premieres this week, accompanied by the kind of social ferment…
Read MoreMillennials Put Off By Rigid, Judgmental Religion Offered … More Orthodoxy
In a way, the Christian Post‘s Kevin Shrum is quite right about why young people reject…
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‘I Don’t Buy It’: The Gospel According to Frank Underwood
With bonus: 12 Quotes from the Underwood Bible
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Walking Dead and Zombie Ethics, or “Don’t Fight the Zombies. You Can’t Win”
Zombie media makes clear distinctions between the human and the zombie—and killing them saves us. Yet, there are resonances of a more complicated vision of the zombie. What if remnants of humanity linger in those resurrected corpses? Or what if zombies represent something fundamental about humans that we need to examine?
The Google Question of Evil
The slogan “Don’t be evil” prompts questions Google’s chairman seems ill-equipped to answer.
Read MoreDoes God know if I cheat on a test in São Paulo?
Anatomy of a cross-cultural study.
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