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From time to time some religious leader, somewhere, seeking to be provocative, will announce, smugly, that of course all morality comes from religion and therefore atheists, those scum of the Earth, have no morality.
The Big Money | Mark Gimein | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
Last month a study from the credit reporting agency Experian and consulting outfit Oliver Wyman estimated that close to a fifth of troubled mortgages ...
Robin Chase | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green
Ownership of another human being and reaping the benefit of their labor is repugnant. While burning fossil fuels is not as intimately observable or viscerally felt, there is a direct link from our actions to individual suffering.
D. Brad Wright | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
If I must accept a party affiliation as a label, it would most likely be the religious left. If that sounds weird to you, it's merely a testament to the excellent job the right has done to brand itself as the party of the faithful.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
Distraction is the redirection of attention from the social, economic, political, and climate emergencies that afflict us locally and globally.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
It is another New Year for the Jews, but it is also the official opening of schools, the beginning of another new year of learning; perhaps of learning how to question as much as to answer.
Alan Lurie | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
Just as life grew evolutionarily, and human beings grow physically, socially, and mentally, we also grow in how we interpret what occurs in our lives -- in our morality.
Byron Williams | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
Why don't we see the same fervor -- particularly emanating from the churches that seek to block gay marriage -- transferred, at least temporarily, to the 47 million Americans who must go without health care?
Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.
Todd Kashdan | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living
If we rely on categories, labels, rules, and what other people say and do, we will miss out on the rich complexity of life. We will make less optimal decisions. We will be less creative and less productive, and feel less autonomous.
Anna Kelner | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment
The generation that got everything clearly lacks something. Call it patience, call it obedience, call it willingness, but the traits that Gen Yers must cultivate are ironically exalted in their favorite children's story.
Robert Rose | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
That day, with that class, I felt I had managed to somehow teach and instill the virtues that I still believe are what has made and can remake American greatness.
Dan Persons | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment
Barthes was willing to give us some insight into her definition of soul and what it's like dealing with actors raised in the land of Stanislavski.
Mike Hegedus | Posted 08.26.2009 | Business
Is there such a thing as "situational ethics" and morality, or are we simply kidding ourselves every day?
Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
Walter Cronkite became "the most trusted man in America" because he held as sacred his commitment to journalism that rigorously distinguished professional objectivity from personal opinion.
Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living
I submit that delaying the death penalty is an indication that our own brains are in conflict about killing people in the first place.
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 08.18.2009 | Living
If you deprive people of the solace of a moral system of meaningful connection with something bigger than themselves, you aren't just stripping away window dressing, but demolishing the supporting structure of a happy life
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 08.15.2009 | Entertainment
We must face not only the physical death suffered by one of Harry's mentors but the death of our ability to blindly idealize our leaders, to accept them as unquestionably good.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
The appeal to God to promote a political agenda does not work. Republicans are all the proof we need. We need a new way.
Xeth Feinberg | Posted 08.08.2009 | Comedy
Xeth Feinberg takes on a fallen idol.
Michael L. Millenson | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago
The fact that Second City comics in the heart of Chicago are successfully playing to GOP-fueled fears of rationing should raise a bright red warning flag at the White House.
Jen Grisanti | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living
How do we turn our dreams into a reality? We approach life knowing our purpose and tapping into the power of intention as well as moving past the fear.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
It's satisfying to lambast a staunch social conservative for an extramarital affair on another continent. But the real failure in this sad story is a political platform based on a personal moral code.
Carter Phipps | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
The moral heroes of the 20th century were defined not by their heroic use of power, but by their inspired opposition to it.
Jamil Zaki | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
Mountains of evidence suggest that being part of a group changes our perceptions of members of other groups at startlingly basic levels.
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David Horton | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living