The Piety That Lies Between: A Progressive Christian Perspective

"The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love." --Simone Weil

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Triumph of Love, Excerpt #3: The Effects of Categorically Condemning Homosexuality

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For Election Day, instead of a political post, I offer the third excerpt from my forthcoming book on same-sex marriage and the Christian lov...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Richard Swinburne, the Ethics of Homosexuality, and the Ethics of Love

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(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...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

Triumph of Love Excerpt #2: Loving the Sinner but Hating the Sin

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Posted below is the second of my promised excerpts from my work-in-progress, Triumph of Love: Same-Sex Marriage and the Christian Love Ethic...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Triumph of Love Excerpt #1: The place of emotions in loving debate

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As promised, I start this week sharing excepts from my forthcoming book, Triumph of Love: Same-Sex Marriage and the Christian Love Ethic . F...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Coming Soon: Triumph of Love Excerpts!

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Some of you may have noticed that my blogging dropped off this spring and vanished entirely over the summer. There is a reason for this: I...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Orlando: What I Want to Say

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The problem is that I don't know what to say. Or maybe it's that I don't know how to say it. I'm in the midst of writing a...
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Friday, May 6, 2016

Our Choice: A Parable for Our Times

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Here's the situation. Your current maid is retiring. He kept the house basically presentable but never did the windows. The windows ar...
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Monday, May 2, 2016

The Transgender Bathroom Post: What Should Those Motivated by Christian Love Think of the North Carolina Law?

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As everyone reading this is surely aware, a recent North Carolina law requires everyone to use male- and female-designated bathrooms accordi...
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Monday, April 11, 2016

Is Social Democracy About the Poor Being Greedy?

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This morning, the following meme passed through my Facebook newsfeed: It takes some unpacking to figure out exactly w...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Myths About the Confederacy?

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I recently read a Washington Post piece from last July in which the author, James Loewen, argues that school textbooks and historic monumen...
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Eric Reitan
Eric, an award-winning scholar and writer, teaches philosophy at Oklahoma State University. His first book, IS GOD A DELUSION? A REPLY TO RELIGION'S CULTURED DESPISERS, was named one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2009. His other books include GOD'S FINAL VICTORY (co-authored with John Kronen) and THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN LOVE ETHIC, the science fiction novel, SO EDEN SANK TO GRIEF, and, most recently,TROUBLED PARADISE: LIMITED SALVATION AND THE PROBLEM OF HEAVENLY GRIEF.
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