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

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Abortion Prohibitions, Rape Exceptions, and Roe v Wade: Is it feasible to prohibit abortion while making it available to rape victims?

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Roe v Wade and "Middle-Ground" Approaches to Abortion Law  Roe v Wade has essentially guaranteed for the last half century that an...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Masking Up and Getting Vaccinated: My Rights vs What's Right

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The Rise of the Delta Variant Earlier today I read an article by the by the chief of the Pathology and Laboratory Service for the Central Io...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

How the COVID Delta Variant Changes the Stakes

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 As I tend to do when I'm worried about something, I've been reading up about the Delta variant of COVID-19. What does the emergence...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

The Campaign to Get People Vaccinated: Manipulation vs. Reasoned Persuasion

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I've seen the following meme recently on social media, and given the timing of its spread it presumably relates to current efforts to co...
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Tuesday, August 3, 2021

The Straw Man Fallacy, the Principle of Charity, and Deflection Tactics: The Case of Florida Governor DeSantis

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Earlier today, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis lashed out at a reporter who asked him if mask mandates might have helped seven children in Florida...
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Monday, July 26, 2021

Socialism, Capitalism, and Talking Past One Another

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I've been seeing a lot social media posts recently about socialism. Often, they take the following form: "How can anyone today seri...
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Sunday, October 4, 2020

If I Cannot Love (Insert Your Preferred Villain Here), I Cannot Love Anybody: A Reflection on Christian Love

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The other day on Facebook, I posted a lengthy reflection on what it means to pray for healing, given my commitment to Christian love, and in...
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Saturday, June 6, 2020

One Statue, One Symbolic Gesture: The Case of the Texas Ranger Statue at Love Field

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The other day, airport officials at Dallas Love Field removed a 12' brass sculpture that has greeted travelers for decades . The scul...
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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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