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Shoulds, Wants, and Faithfulness
BY: Denis Haack
Might the future of business lie in encouraging shoulds rather than indulging wants? Could corporations help us bring out our better selves?
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Concern for children at play and work: Discernment Exercise
BY: Denis Haack
I always find “The Ethicist” to be interesting. Interesting for the range of questions and issues that he receives from readers and chooses to reflect on. Interesting for the principles, either assumed or identified, that he brings to bear on the issues. Sometimes I agree with Cohen; sometimes I disagree, but always I am glad I am listening in on this ongoing conversation about ethics published in one of the world’s most widely read newspapers.
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Halloween: Magic and Monsters: Discernment Exercise
BY: Michael Metzger
It’s hard to know where America is headed, but Christians shunning Halloween celebrations for alternative “harvest” church events could be contributing to a kind of “Balkanization of America.” Halloween used to be considered a church holiday. Shunning the celebration was largely unknown prior to the 19th century. What happened?
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Pottering About Potter: Discernment Exercise
BY: Denis Haack
The fourth novel in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, which hit bookstores in July, represents the largest first printing (3.8 million copies) of any book in U.S. history... It is not only the popularity of the Harry Potter books, however, which has generated attention. Numerous Christians have issued warnings about the series, such as this email I received recently...
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Should We Pray? Or Protest?: Discernment Exercise
BY: Denis Haack
The fact that we live in a religiously pluralistic culture means that we can expect to be exposed to beliefs, values, and practices that are contrary to our Christian faith. This might arise in a conversation over lunch at work, in a lecture at a university, in a film, or during any number of other instances when we naturally rub shoulders with non-Christians. In most of these instances, however, our exposure is somewhat at arm’s length. It involves a theme in a movie, or a comment by a colleague—which might become a topic for conversation, but the thing with which we disagree remains out there, at a distance.
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The events transpiring around the world make it hard, sometimes, to feel certain that the details of ordinary life have much meaning in the cosmic scheme of things. Airplanes fall out of the sky into the ocean, wars that have raged for decades blunder on, and lovely friends find themselves struggling with loneliness or job loss or a job so mind-numbingly boring as to seem unjust. In such a reality, listening carefully and discussing thoughtfully are not luxuries but necessities. This web site is one way we attempt to nourish such conversation.
Denis & Margie
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