Piety, Peril, and the Politics of Place – By Jill DeTemple
Jill DeTemple reviews Kevin O’Neill’s Secure the Soul As the recent debates in the US Congress remind us, security is an organizing principle
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Religious Ethics
“From Despair to Hope”: Antiretroviral Therapy, Redemption, and Christianity in Africa – By Jessica Hardin
Jessica Hardin on Rijk van Dijk, et al. (eds), Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa In 2009, an estimated 2.1 million people with
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Belief Is Not Dead: Science, Theology, and Culture in Graham Ward’s Unbelievable – By Sarah Lane
Sarah Lane on Graham Ward’s Unbelievable The topic of belief can seem an awkward guest in contemporary discussions of epistemology. Tacitly or openly
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Milton Friedman Drove Out Leviticus – By Charles Halton
Charles Halton on Andro Linklater’s Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership Karl Marx summarized his assessment of the newly declared Commonwealth
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Biology, Ethics, and the Persistence of Religion – By Phillip Sherman
Phillip Sherman on Frans De Waal’s The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates Chimpanzees are prone to extreme
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Strange Bedfellows: Peter Singer and the Church
Christopher M. Hays on Charles Camosy’s Peter Singer and Christian Ethics To describe the ethics of Peter Singer and those of the Catholic Church
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