Global Faculty Initiative

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Love Is Not Sentiment but Practical Reason, Moving from Attention Through Deliberation to Action — for Institutions as for Persons

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Calling a Sunset an Object of Love Risks Diluting the Word, When We Really Mean Taking Delight in It

Biological & Physical Sciences5 min read

A speaker presenting in front of the Chesterton House banner at Cornell’s Center for Christian Studies.

Chesterton House, Cornell

Cornell University · January 2026

University of Oxford

Readers of Lewis Will Find O’Donovan Familiar in Love’s Rich Variety, but Disorienting in Its Structural Logic

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

O’Donovan Says Scholars Should Love Their Discipline for God’s Sake: As Vocation, Within an Order of Goods, and as Education

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

Love Is Not Just a Theory for Scientists: It Shapes How They Study Creation and Treat Colleagues

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

University of Oxford

Loving in Augustine’s Order Treats Things as Things and Persons as Persons, and Neither as God

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Public Health Rarely Speaks of Love, Yet to Meet Its Goals as Fully as Possible, Promoting Love Is Necessary

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Love, Not Integrity, Should Be Primary for the Christian Scholar

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Loving the Stranger on Our Own Terms Is Not Love; Real Love Gives Up Control of the Beloved

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

If Love Is the Highest Way of Knowing, We Must Ask What That Means for Science and the University

Humanities13 min read

Faculty and graduate students filling Wycliffe Hall, listening intently during the book launch.

Justice and Rights Book Launch

Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, UK · June 2025

University of Queensland

Because Love Is Made Concrete in Action, It Can Be Commanded Even Toward a Former Spouse

Law10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Because Love Is Central to Flourishing, Helping Patients Love More Effectively Can Become an Important Focus of Psychiatric Treatment

Medicine5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Polarizing Us-Versus-Them Thinking Stifles Love Today, Just as Jealousy and Bigotry Troubled Paul’s Roman World

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Though Science Studies an Impersonal World, Love Runs Through It, from Wonder at Nature’s Laws to Collegial Correction

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

Markets Free Trade from Personal Ties, but Their Anonymity Leaves Buyers Without a Trading Partner’s Empathy

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Otago

Love of God and Neighbour Attends to Persons Who, like Us, Bear God’s Image and Agency

Law8 min read

Faculty and postdoctoral scholars gathered for a discussion at the Yarnton Manor retreat.

Oxford Faculty Retreat, Yarnton Manor 2025

Oxford, UK · June 2025

University of Oxford

Good Historical Practice May Not Merely Resemble Love but Be Identical with It, from Method to Purpose

Humanities7 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Summary Sayings in Scripture Distil Vast Theology into Memorable Phrases — the Love Command Is the Supreme Example

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Jesus’ Love-Command Answered the Rabbis’ Search for a Way to Read 613 Commands as One Coherent Law

35 min read

University of Otago

Feminist Critiques of Consent as Mere Capitulation Resonate with O’Donovan’s Emphasis on Love as Reciprocity and Mutual Communion

Law1 min read

University of Rosario

Love as a Way of Knowing Opposes the Dominant Post-Scientific-Revolution View That Only Detached Observation Produces Valid Knowledge

Humanities2 min read

Kyoto University

A Helsinki Library Designed as a Public Living Room Expresses Love Through Architecture — Welcoming Asylum Seekers into Warmth and Community

Architecture2 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program Is Building Measures of Love, from Spousal to Enemy-Love, That Might Eventually Inform Policy

Public Health2 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Scripture Uses Agape for a Rapist’s Desire, a Love of Darkness and the Father’s Love, So Context Decides Its Meaning

Theology3 min read

University of Melbourne

A College Op-Shop That Recycles Clothes and Funds Children’s Schooling Shows Self-Giving Love in Community Service

Humanities2 min read

American Bar Foundation

Re-Reading Field Notes on China’s Rights Lawyers Through the Lens of Love Reveals a Finely Textured Mosaic of Love’s Manifestations

Law2 min read

Yale University

Students Ask Professors for Career Advice — Neighbor-Love Transforms That Conversation from Strategic Planning into Vocational Discernment

Theology2 min read

University of Queensland

Marital Love Depends on Both Agape and Eros — When Both Die, What Remains Is the Wreckage of Disappointed Love

Law5 min read

University of Oxford

States Are Proverbially Loveless Cold Monsters — but Is There a Way to Bring Love into the Machinery of Governance?

Public Policy1 min read

University of Hong Kong

Human Law Typically Asks Only for Outward Compliance, but the Law of Love Also Demands a Sincere Heart

Law2 min read

University of Hong Kong

Where Law Is Ambiguous, Just Outcomes Depend on How Lawyers and Judges Exercise Discretion, Not on Statutes Alone

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Roebben, Chiu and Vicuña Worry That Publish-or-Perish Pressure Crowds Out Slow Research and Often Leaves Students Exploited

33 min read

University of Oxford

Turning Competitive, Exam-Trained Students into True Collaborators Takes More Than Training: It Takes Duties of Love

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

John M. Owen

University of Virginia

Should Christians Love Their Nation More Than Humanity, as They Love Family More Than Society?

Public Policy1 min read

Yale Divinity School

The Puzzle of Commanded Love — How Can Genuine Love Be Both Obligatory and Spontaneous, Both Duty and Delight?

Theology1 min read

Market Prices Multiply the Gains from Trade by Freeing Exchange from the Unlikely Coincidence of Wants

Social Sciences6 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Engineering at Its Best Creates Systems Responsive to Society’s Needs — Love Conceived as Knowledge Transforms Engineering from Technique to Vocation

Engineering1 min read

American Bar Foundation

If Love Unifies the Torah, Should It Also Be the Touchstone for Christian Appraisals of All Law and Justice Today?

Social Sciences8 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Love Is a Dividing Line Between Theology and Economics — Theology Is Consumed by It, Economics Has No Category for It

Social Sciences1 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

If Love Is the Golden Chain Connecting Virtues, Does Justice Really Resist That Pattern — or Is Mercy the Key That Resolves the Tension?

Theology3 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Genuine Love Appears Operative in Non-Christians — Can O’Donovan’s Framework Account for Truthful Love Beyond the Christian Faith?

Theology1 min read

Harvard Medical School

Helping Patients Love More Effectively May Be a Potentially Important and Underrecognized Focus of Psychiatric Treatment

Medicine1 min read

American Bar Foundation

What Role Have Lawyers Played Since the 17th Century in Struggles for Legal Freedoms, Civil Society and Limited Power?

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

Because Love Fulfils the Law, the Many Moral Demands of a Godly Life No Longer Threaten Tragic Conflict

6 min read

The Australian National University

Perhaps Virtue Ethics Can Help Ask Whether Humanitarian Work Truly Serves Holistic Flourishing, Not Just Whether It Does Right

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Trauma Victims Cannot Be Argued into Believing in Moral Order; They Need to See It Embodied in People

20 min read

University of Melbourne

Price Stability in Practice Means Low, Predictable Inflation, Since Falling Prices Do More Damage Than Slowly Rising Ones

Business6 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Fear of Blaming the Victim Should Arguably Make Public Health Handle Character More Sensitively, Not Drop It

Public Health7 min read

Economists’ Collective Amnesia About the Virtues Is a Mistake That Leaves Them Misreading How Markets Actually Work

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Literature Can Form Virtue, but Often by Complicating Our Picture of What Becoming Virtuous Looks Like

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

AI Agents Perceive, Act, and Can Learn and Reach Their Own Conclusions — and Recent Concerns Show They Need Ethics

Engineering18 min read

University of Hong Kong

Honesty with Data, Impartial Review and Stewardship of Funds Are Among the Moral Virtues That Help Science Self-Correct

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Sydney Business School

Conventional Economic Models Reduce Human Behavior to Utility Maximization Under Constraints, Leaving No Room for Virtue

Business5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Biblical Authors Themselves Practiced Cross-Cultural Interpretation, Drawing on Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Resources

Theology11 min read

Yale University

A Required Class Gathers the Arrogant, Timid, Worried, Rigid and Resentful, and Teaching Must Cope with Each Attitude

Humanities10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Long Neglected by Psychiatry, Virtues Belong in the Diagnosis, Goal-Setting and Treatment of the Whole Patient

Medicine6 min read

University of Edinburgh

Aquinas Gave Aristotle’s Virtues a Major but Middle Place, Framed by Law, Grace and the Final Good

Theology18 min read

University of Otago

Sexual Violence Law Shows Law Mirroring a Society’s Growing Virtues, and It May Help Cultivate Them Too

Law5 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Cultural Diversity Enriches Virtue Formation When Communities Learn from Traditions Beyond Their Own

Theology6 min read

Yale Divinity School

Rules and Principles Require People Capable of Putting Them into Practice — Virtue Is What Makes Moral Agency Possible

38 min read

University of Bonn

Humility When Teaching Mirrors Christ’s Self-Emptying at the Incarnation

Education4 min read

University of Hong Kong

Freedom Is Inherent in God’s Moral Law; It Is Both Private and Communal

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

A Certain Kind of Disorder Keeps Legal Orders Viable, and God’s Moral Order Adds a Prophetic Jolt

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

Hierarchy Exists in the Layers of an AI Model

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

A Binary of East and West Distorts Both the Bible and Confucius, and Feeds “East Rises, West Declines” Propaganda

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Creational Goods Are Valuable Irrespective of Whether Humans Value Them

Humanities18 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Public Health Aims to Bring the Good of Health to Individuals and Communities

Public Health7 min read

University of Navarra

Einstein Called the World’s Comprehensibility a Miracle, Yet Stopped His Reasoning There and Never Admitted a Personal God

Humanities6 min read

University of Melbourne

Christian Institutions on the Margins of Universities Can Create Charitable Spaces for Difficult Conversations

Humanities3 min read

The University of Queensland

A Well-Ordered Society Has Multiple Levels of Government

Law3 min read

Harvard Medical School

There Are Difficulties with ‘Value Neutrality’ in Psychological Contexts

Medicine2 min read

University College London

Whatever Their Style, University Leaders Are Typecast as Corporate Managerialists in a Culture Fond of Dualisms

Law2 min read

Yale University

Contemplating Disorder Has Value Even for Believers in Divine Order: As Geoffrey Hill Says, Dissonance Prepares Harmony’s Return

Fine & Performing Arts9 min read

Market Order Arises Without Any Organising Blueprint, Which Is Reassuring, but Neither Guarantees Stability nor Justice

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Oxford

We Are Redeemed by Love, Not Law

Public Policy6 min read

University of Hong Kong

Music Is an Expression of Cosmic Harmony and Mathematical Ratios

Fine & Performing Arts3 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Social Orders Mirror the Order of Creation Imperfectly

Humanities9 min read

University of Cambridge

Created Order Provides the Framework for Science by Making Nature Intelligible

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Queensland

Rules Require Interpretation, and Good Interpretation Requires Virtues That No Rulebook Can Supply

Law7 min read

Manuel David Morales

University of Guadalajara

Hauerwas’s Character Ethics and Virtue Theory Converge in Asking What Kind of Person the Scientist Should Become

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Brandeis University

Economic Research Should Attend to How Scholarship Contributes to Human Flourishing, Not Just Market Efficiency

Social Sciences1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

How Could Israel’s Monotheistic Ethicists Draw on Polytheistic Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom as a Medium of God’s Revelation?

Theology1 min read

Brunel University

Brazilian Evangelical Media Treated Technology as Neutral, Finding Virtue Only in Content and Never in Technique

Humanities3 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Language Shapes Moral Perception — a Sociolinguist Sees Virtue as Embedded in the Speech Practices of Communities

Humanities1 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

The Challenge Is How to Foster Virtues — Christian Theology Offers Transformation by the Spirit, but What Works Empirically?

Public Health1 min read

University of Hong Kong

Publish-or-Perish Culture Pressures Researchers to Generate Data and Publications at the Expense of Mentoring and Integrity

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

University of Melbourne

Leading a Residential University College Means Asking How You Model Christian Virtues to Staff and Students Daily

Humanities1 min read

University of Bonn

Virtue Needs an Inclusive Reconfiguration in Which Diverse Versions Are Compared in Light of Flourishing, a Pressing European Concern

Education2 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Satellite Orbits Rest on Indisputable Facts, Yet Much Political Debate Disputes Basic Facts and Accepts Lies as Truth

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Yale University

Eliot Feared That Secularization Left Literary Criticism Without a Common Moral Code, Suspending Moral Judgment Itself

Fine & Performing Arts3 min read

Connie Svob

Columbia University

Prudence May Operate Through Intellectual Mechanisms like Memory — the Psychology of Cognition and Virtue Overlap

Medicine1 min read

Yale University

Without the Virtue of Being Just, Acting Justly Will Be at Best Episodic

Humanities1 min read

University of Hong Kong

Just Legal Outcomes Depend Not Only on Good Law but on the Virtuous Character of Those Who Interpret and Apply It

Law1 min read

John Inazu

Washington University

Virtues Must Be Cultivated Through Particular Communities and Institutions — Abstract Virtue Claims Ring Hollow Without Them

Law1 min read

Harvard University

Empirical Evidence Links Moral Character to Human Flourishing, but the Causal Mechanisms Remain Underexplored

Theology2 min read

American Bar Foundation

Do Lawmakers in Bodies like UNCITRAL and the IMF Need Distinctive Virtues, and Can Theology Supply Them?

LawSocial Sciences1 min read

University of Otago

Mindfulness Practice for Lawyers Cultivates the Clear Present Awareness That Virtue Ethics Demands

Law1 min read

University of Oxford

Prudence Alone Cannot Sustain Markets: Without Temperance and Justice, and Perhaps Hope and Love, Trust Is Likely Absent

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Edinburgh

If New Virtues Arise in History, What Still Makes the Classical Cardinal and Theological Lists Canonical?

Theology2 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Are Christian Virtues a Discrete Set like Faith, Hope and Love, or a Christian Perspective on All Virtue?

Social Sciences1 min read

Rafael Vicuña

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Excessive Concern for Career Advancement and Funding Is Damaging the Very Essence of the University

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

La Trobe University

Courage and Justice Are Mutually Reinforcing in Citizens Who Risk Their Liberty Defending Political Liberalism Under Authoritarian Rule

Law1 min read

University of Oxford

The Word Virtue Appears Only Four Times in the New Testament — Perhaps Because It De-Emphasizes Human Merit in Favour of Divine Grace

Public Policy1 min read

University College London

University Leaders Find That Practical Wisdom Is the Virtue Requiring Most Attention in Collective Institutional Life

Law1 min read

Tim Maughan

University of Oxford

Virtue Cannot Be Achieved in Our Own Strength; It Depends on the Grace of the Spirit Transforming Us

Medicine1 min read

University of Navarra

Human Beings Share with Natural Systems an Autonomy Through Which They Act — but Only Humans Form Stable Ethical Habits

Humanities1 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Paul’s Theology and Jeremiah 31 Support Viewing Christian Virtues as Both Divinely Infused and Humanly Cultivated

Theology1 min read

Harvard Medical School

The Character of the Good Psychiatrist and the Cultivation of Virtues in Patients Are Two Sides of the Same Question

Medicine1 min read

University of Melbourne

A Public Policy Economist Reaches for the Cardinal Virtues When Purely Technical Analysis Hits Its Limits

Business1 min read

University of Oxford

Sin Makes Us Ignorant About Human Nature and Behaviour

Social Sciences2 min read

American Bar Foundation

How Do Ideals of a Created Moral Order Translate into Judgments About International Economic and Humanitarian Law?

Social SciencesLaw1 min read

University of Oxford

Situations May Arise Where the Dictates of God’s Moral Order Conflict with a Leader’s Obligation to Their Constituents

Social Sciences1 min read

Brandeis University

Moral Law Obtains Between Peoples Even Where No International Law Exists

Social Sciences1 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Creation Is Not Only Ordered but Profuse, Untidy and Abundant to Excess, as the Psalms Testify

Social Sciences2 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

How Effectively Can the Propositions of Natural Law Following from a Christian Understanding of Created Order Persuade Those Who Are Not Christian?

Medicine1 min read

Harvard Medical School

Creational Goods and Their Goal, Human Flourishing, Are Prior to Moral Commands: A Psychiatric Application of This Idea

Medicine1 min read

University of Hong Kong

Natural Moral Law Forms the Foundation of the Common Law Tradition

Law1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Good Is Neither Independent of God nor His Arbitrary Command, but Is God’s Eternal Nature

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Does Weapons Research Align with Created Order If It Serves Just War?

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Barbara Drossel

Technical University of Darmstadt

Quantum Chance Is Not Purely Random, but Depends upon Top-Down Causation

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Does the Difference Between Old Testament Monotheism and Trinitarian Theology Affect Which Community Best Fits the Created Order?

Theology1 min read

University of Otago

God’s Attributes Are Mirrored in the Created Order

Theology1 min read

University of Edinburgh

The Difference Between Moral Goods and Moral Principles

Theology2 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Paul at Times Leans on Stoic Reasoning: The Created Order Mirrors the Divine Will More Truly Than Human Conduct Does

Theology2 min read

Yale University

Wolterstorff Affirms Biggar’s Account of Created Order and Its Implications for Scholarship — with One Important Question About Natural Law

Humanities1 min read

Eleonore Stump

Saint Louis University

The Kosovo Intervention Tested Whether Moral Imperatives Can Override UN Authorization

Humanities1 min read

University of Sheffield

Biggar’s Theology of Created Order Is Androcentric, Ignoring a Non-Human Creation That Scripture Shows Worshipping and Longing for Salvation

Humanities1 min read

University of Melbourne

Radicals Once Turned to Marxism; in Some Countries Today Protest Builds More Easily on Religion, Such as Radical Islam

Humanities4 min read

University of Hong Kong

In Both Confucian and Pythagorean Traditions, Music Was Understood as Cosmic Natural Law — Simultaneously Scientific, Aesthetic, and Moral

Fine & Performing Arts1 min read

American Bar Foundation

Empirical Science Must Help Judge Whether Societies Flourish, but Does Theology Need Middle Axioms Social Scientists Can Operationalize?

Social SciencesLaw2 min read

Australian National University

Flourishing Does Not Feature in Armed Conflict Studies Despite Efforts to Advance Civilian Protection — a Gap Worth Closing

Social Sciences1 min read

Brandeis University

Economics Can Illuminate Agency by Identifying Choices That Help or Hinder Our Own and Others’ Well-Being

Social Sciences1 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Measured by Circumstance and Feeling, Jesus Did Not Obviously Flourish, So Flourishing May Mean Righteousness and Joy Despite Adversity

Social Sciences2 min read

University of Oxford

Flourishing as Flower — the Bible Sometimes Uses the Image of Blooming Today and Being Gone Tomorrow, a Warning Against Complacency

Social Sciences1 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Like Romans 14:17, the Triads of Micah 6:8 and Matthew 23 Could Equally Summarise Flourishing’s Three Key Ingredients

Social Sciences1 min read

Jane Green

University of Oxford

Political Surveys Measure Satisfaction with Democracy but Not Flourishing — the Gap Reveals How Little Politics Attends to the Good Life

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Technology Sydney

The Volf et al. Flourishing Framework Is Recognizable to Economists but Not Easily Formalizable in Their Models

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Oxford

Economics Has Debated Flourishing Under the Label of ‘Welfare’ for Generations — the Volf et al. Three-Part Framework Maps onto That History

Social Sciences3 min read

Priscilla Chiu

University of Toronto

A Surgeon-Scientist in the Pandemic Found That Caring for Families of Sick Newborns Demanded All Three Dimensions of Flourishing

Medicine1 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Empirical Sciences Cannot Define Flourishing, but They Can Measure It and Identify What Promotes or Undermines It

Public Health3 min read

Columbia University

Medicine Has Gone Astray by Focusing on Patients Feeling Well While Ignoring Adverse Circumstances and What Makes Life Worth Living

Medicine1 min read

Harvard Medical School

Where Does Meaning and Purpose Fit in Volf et al.’s Dimensions of Flourishing — Is It Agential, Emotional, or Something Else Entirely?

Medicine1 min read

University of Melbourne

Sri Lankan Law Students Often First Meet Flourishing with Disbelief, Which Is Exactly Why the Idea Is So Powerful

Law1 min read

La Trobe University

The Idea of Righteousness Has Permeated Hong Kong Research from Universal Human Rights to Lawyers’ Activism and Public Trust in Courts

Law1 min read

University of Otago

Sexual Violence Assaults All Three Dimensions of Flourishing — Agency Overruled, Circumstances Devastated, Emotions Scarred

Law1 min read

University of Rosario

In Mourning Colombian Children, the Agential, Circumstantial and Emotional Dimensions of Flourishing Dissolved into One Spontaneity

Humanities1 min read

University of Calabar

Harnessing Resources for Flourishing in the Global South Cannot Be Wholly Separated from People’s Worldviews

Humanities1 min read

Monash University

How Does the Social Contract Catechise Societies into Dispositions Toward the Good, Rather Than Merely Describing Them?

Humanities1 min read

Yale University

Wolterstorff Admits That in His Own Work on Justice He Missed the Emotional Dimension of Flourishing — It Now Seems Blindingly Obvious

Humanities1 min read

University of Otago

The Beatitudes Overturn Common Notions of Flourishing, Finding Blessedness in Meekness, Mourning and Even Persecution

Theology1 min read

University of Oxford

The Relationship Between Freedom and Flourishing Maps onto the Agential Dimension — Agency Requires Genuine Freedom

Theology1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics Raises Whether Flourishing Can Be Framed Without Privileging Western Philosophical Categories

Theology1 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Working with Displaced Victims in Colombia, Holistic Flourishing Breaks Down into Spiritual, Economic, Social, Political, and Psychological Dimensions

Theology1 min read

University of Edinburgh

More Connection Is Needed Between Flourishing and the Traditional Theological Concept of Beatitudo

Theology1 min read

Krzysztof Wojciechowski

AGH University of Science and Technology

The Tree Planted by Streams of Water in Psalm 1 Embodies Flourishing — Rooted, Fruitful, and Sustained by What Nourishes It

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Making the Space Enterprise More Broadly Accessible Affects Life Going Well for Populations Who Currently Cannot Innovate in Space

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

University of Alberta

A Scientist Initially Suspicious of Tying Flourishing to Circumstances Discovers That the Framework Captures What Stoic Detachment Misses

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Both Secular and Religious Communities Harbour an Extreme Confidence in Science That Actually Impedes Human Flourishing

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Andrew Briggs

University of Oxford

Material, Relational and Transcendent Flourishing Can Be Distinguished for Discussion but Never Separated in a Human Life

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Yale University

Flourishing Has Vegetable Origins — to Flourish Is to Bloom, and That Earthiness Counters the Airiness of Philosophical Abstraction

Architecture1 min read

University of Notre Dame

Volf et al. Only Imply the Body, Disability, Suffering, Work and Play, and Do Not Make Them Explicit

Architecture5 min read

Kyoto University

Disaster Response Reveals What Flourishing Communities Need — the Question Is Whether Aid Builds or Undermines Them

Architecture2 min read

University of Notre Dame

Concerns for Justice Are Not Value Added but Intrinsic to Human Being in the World — Architecture Reveals This Viscerally

Architecture1 min read

Yale University

In Architecture Schools, the Foundations Underlying Social Justice Constructs Deserve Scrutiny

Architecture1 min read

University of Hong Kong

Beethoven’s Humanism Expresses First-Order Justice Through Music — Even a Sonata’s Dialogue Between Themes Enacts Just Relations

Fine & Performing Arts1 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Should Forgiveness Be Considered a Matter of Public Health and Public Policy, Not Just Private Virtue?

Public Health1 min read

Columbia University

Respect for Autonomy Dominates Medicine, but It Can Undermine Justice When Treatment Becomes Mere Wish Fulfilment

Medicine1 min read

Harvard Medical School

Being Just in First-Order Interactions May Be Relevant as a Treatment Goal, a Therapeutic Ingredient, and a Mark of the Good Therapist

Medicine1 min read

University of Alberta

Our Fundamental Calling as Christians Is to Establish God’s Kingdom Through Bottom-Up First-Order Justice, Not Top-Down Systems

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

University of Queensland

Universities Exploit International Students, Postdocs, and Adjunct Faculty — Some Labs Function like Sweat Shops

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Universities Emphasize Ethics in Science Education but Have Little Idea How to Teach It in Ways That Connect with Students

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Jeff Hardin

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Students Passionate About Social Justice Are Ill-Equipped to Think About Justice as It Intersects with Human Embryonic Development

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Satellites Tend to Be Expensive, So How Can Space Observation Serve Nations That Cannot Afford It?

Engineering1 min read

American Bar Foundation

Justice as Interaction Resonates with Halliday’s Research, from Global Lawmaking to Defendants’ Dealings with Police in China

LawSocial Sciences1 min read

Emily Messer

University of Texas

Studying Learning in Non-WEIRD Societies Reveals How Justice in Human Interaction Varies Radically Across Cultural Contexts

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Oxford

Is the Desire for Justice a Fundamental Human Characteristic, and If So, Where Does It Come from — Evolution, Social Construction, or God?

Social Sciences1 min read

University of British Columbia in Vancouver

Environmental Justice Asks Whether Justice Is Always Only About Human Relationships or Extends to Creation Itself

Social Sciences3 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

The Distinction Between First-Order and Second-Order Justice Maps Helpfully onto Restorative Justice Theory and Practice

Social Sciences1 min read

Emily Burdett

University of Nottingham

Children Develop Intuitive Understandings of Fairness from Young Ages — They Grasp First-Order Justice Before They Can Name It

Social Sciences1 min read

Brandeis University

Economic Efficiency Can Be a Strong Ally for Justice, Especially for the Poor, in a World of Scarce Resources

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Mill’s Framework Privileges Unfettered Freedom Unless You Harm Others — but This Ignores the Relational Core of First-Order Justice

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Cambridge

The Rise of Aristotelian Distributive Justice in Anglo-American Thought over the Last Century Deserves Examination

Social Sciences1 min read

La Trobe University

Lawyers Distinguish Procedural from Substantive Justice and Tend to Equate Justice with the Former — a Professional Blind Spot

Social SciencesLaw1 min read

Robert Joustra

Redeemer University

Grounding Justice in Relationships Drives Us into Scripture Searching for What a Right Relationship Actually Looks Like

Social Sciences1 min read

Australian National University

Justice’s Global and International Dimensions Need More Attention — Including Israel’s Call to Love the Foreign Sojourner

Social Sciences1 min read

Yale University

A Rights-Based Account of Justice Bears Directly on the Ethics of Home in a World of Millions with No House to Call Home

Theology1 min read

Yale Divinity School

Do We Have Obligations of Justice Only to Humans, or Also to Animals, Potential Transhumans, Robots, and Extraterrestrials?

Theology1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucian Uprightness, Growing from Inner Character Outward Through Family to Public Life, May Echo the Old Testament’s Justice

Theology1 min read

University of Oxford

If Justice Is About Interactions, What Virtues Are Necessary to Underwrite the Ability to Interact Justly?

Theology1 min read

University of Edinburgh

The Essence of Justice Lies in ‘Second-Order Justice’, Judgment and Acts of Justice

Theology1 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

In Colombia, Millions of Documented Human Rights Violations Have Made Rights Discourse Pervasive — but Mostly in Second-Order Fashion

Theology2 min read

Bakke Graduate University

Gender and Racial Discrimination, Exploitation, and Gaps Between Clergy and Laity Are Justice Issues Within the Church Itself

Humanities1 min read

Eleonore Stump

Saint Louis University

Feminist Philosophers Argue Justice-Based Ethics Needs Supplementing or Supplanting by an Ethics of Care

Humanities1 min read

University of Sheffield

Is Human Worth Better Expressed as Obligations Owed to the Other Than as Rights Claimed by the Self?

Humanities1 min read

University of Calabar

The Problem of First-Order Injustice Can Be Traced to the Natural Human Propensity to Be Egocentric

Humanities1 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Grounding Justice Primarily in Rights Creates Discomfort — Rights Discourse Sometimes Seems Too Individualistic and Western

Humanities1 min read

Peter Anstey

University of Sydney

Rights Talk Is Foreign to Scripture and Can Lose Touch with Deeper Moral Concepts, So It Should Not Frame Justice

Humanities1 min read

Joy Pachuau

Jawaharlal Nehru University

In Tribal Christian Societies, Social Solidarity and Individual Rights Are Often at the Expense of Each Other

Humanities1 min read

Monash University

Understanding Justice at the Level of Whole Societies Requires Engaging Social Contract Theories of Freedom and Emancipation

Humanities1 min read

University of Leicester

Christians Have Not Only Been Complicit in Injustice — They Have Been Active Perpetrators, a History the Church Must Reckon With

Humanities1 min read

University of Otago

First-Order Justice Grounded in the Dignity of Persons Resonates Strongly with Anna High’s Research on Sexual Dignity

Law1 min read

University of Melbourne

Justice Understood as Rights Can Be Too Abstract — Disagreements About What Rights and Justice Require Make Them Difficult to Apply in Practice

Law1 min read

The University of Queensland

Beyond Interactions, Justice Has a Structural Dimension — the Conditions and Arrangements That Shape Whether Interactions Can Be Just

Law1 min read

University of Hong Kong

Each Person Has a Moral Claim to Basic Necessities — Social and Economic Rights Research Asks How Resources Should Be Fairly Distributed

Law1 min read

María Carmelina Londoño

Universidad de La Sabana

Socially Responsible Business in Latin America Answers Directly to the Demands of First- and Second-Order Justice

Law1 min read

Jide Okechuku Nzelibe

Northwestern University

Narrow, Low-Stakes Economic Grievances Can Escalate into Claims That National or Social Identity Is Under Threat

Law1 min read

Benny Tai Yiu Ting (戴耀廷)

University of Hong Kong

Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong Rests on Removing Injustice, Which Is What Justifies Protesters Breaking the Law

Law1 min read

University of Oxford

Freedom Is Prized in the Development of the Western Political Tradition

32 min read

Yale University

Procedural Justice in Rulemaking Requires Public Notice and Comment

30 min read

Yale Divinity School

No Moral Code, However Perfect, Can Ensure Good Action Without the Virtues to Interpret and Apply Its Rules

4 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Aquinas, Aristotelian and Ulpian Definitions of Justice May Be Equivalent Under Some Interpretations

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Climate Change Policy Must Address Both Rising Temperatures and Extreme Weather

Social Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Science Rests on a Monotheist Assumption: One Rational God Made a World Ordered and Intelligible to Human Minds

4 min read

Northwestern University

Administrative Rulemaking Shapes Justice Outcomes Through Appointed Officials

Law5 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Respecting Language and ‘Voice’ Is a Core Component of Doing Justice

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Wolterstorff Casts Justice as Right Action, Not Virtue, but His Own Ulpian Definition Describes the Virtue of Justice

Law18 min read

University of Rosario

As Liberation Theology Teaches, Sin Has a Social Face, and Injustice Hides Behind the University’s Established Practices

Humanities3 min read

The Australian National University

Justice Is Intimately Bound to Creating and Maintaining the Conditions for Collective Flourishing, Which Makes It Unavoidably Political

Social Sciences12 min read

Universidad Austral

First-Order Justice Is a Pillar of Trust in Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research

Humanities3 min read

Kyoto University

On the Challenge of Balancing Providing Kindness (Mercy) and Doing Justice

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Our Quarrels over Justice Involve Quarrels over History, Which Is Why Christians Must Tell the Past Honestly

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

Scripture Pursues Economic Justice Through Both the Structure of the Social Order and a Generous Social Ethic

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Restorative Justice as an Effort to Promote Healing and Repair After the Wounds of Crime

Social Sciences17 min read

Australian National University

Duties-Talk Came Long Before Rights-Talk; Glanville Would Like More Justification for Preferring Rights

Social Sciences7 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

GPS Began as a Military Tool, but Given Away Free It Became a Public Good That Advances Justice

Engineering2 min read

Bakke Graduate University

Why Questions of Justice and Rights Should Motivate Christian Scholars

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

A Family Lawyer Argues That Second-Order Justice Serves Children Best When Mediation Keeps Disputes out of Court

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

Major Problems Require Responses Beyond the Capacity of Single Governments

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

God’s Justice Is Merciful

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

For Christian Scholars, Pursuing Justice Is Both a Matter of Conviction and a Crucial Entry Point into Secular Research

Social Sciences12 min read

University of Otago

Rape as a Violation of Human Dignity

Law4 min read

University of Melbourne

Justice in the Academies of the Global South

Law4 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

In Families and Beyond, Justice Emerges from Caring Relationships That Create Real Duties Between Persons

Theology11 min read

Harvard Medical School

First-Order Justice Is Often Central to Psychiatric Treatment

Medicine1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Biblical Theology Climbs Up from Texts in Their Contexts Where Systematic Theology Reaches Down from Categories

Theology15 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Scientific Objectivity Seems to Demand No Judgment of Worth, Yet Nature Itself Makes Claims of Justice on Science

EngineeringBiological & Physical Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Colombia’s Internally Displaced Deserve More Than State Restitution: Citizens and Churches Are Bound to Act for Them

Theology18 min read

Modern Societies Have Become Experts in Means but Amateurs in Ends — We Can Do Almost Anything but Cannot Say What We Should Do

4 min read

Yale University

Courts and Punishment Presuppose Everyday Justice, Which Is Why First-Order Justice Is Basic and Second-Order Justice Derivative

43 min read

Yale University

First-Order Justice Is Treating Each Other Justly in Ordinary Affairs; Second-Order Justice Is Systemic Correction When First-Order Fails

5 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Taking Love’s Sovereignty Seriously in Institutions Means Deepening Attention into Presence, Care and Shared Co-Responsibility

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Science Is Impersonal, but Love in Its Fullest Sense Is Directed to Persons, as Jesus’ Two Commandments Insist

Biological & Physical Sciences5 min read

University of Oxford

For O’Donovan, the Gospel Converts Practical Reason: Faith Perfects Responsibility, Love Perfects Reflection, Hope Perfects Deliberation

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

O’Donovan Calls Eros, a Fascinated Desire for the Good and Beautiful, “the Birth of Enquiry”

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

Hutchinson Proposes That the Awe of Scientific Discovery Is a Loving Response to God’s Craftsmanship Revealed in Creation

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

University of Oxford

Scholars Debated How to Love What They Study, but No One Asked Whether They Should Love It

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Promoting Love, Even of Enemies, Might Be Seen as a Christian Contribution Public Health Can Adopt Without Christian Premises

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Physicists Awed by Nature’s Beauty Face the Ancient Temptation to Worship the Creation Rather Than the Creator

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Welcoming the Religious Stranger from Privilege, Even Grace-Given Privilege, Can Leave Us Incurious About God’s Work Elsewhere

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

All Research Begins in Wonder, Curiosity or Indignation, and That Passion Is the Scholar’s Love for the Work

Humanities13 min read

University of Queensland

Love Survives Divorce as a Series of Obligations Long After It Has Died as a Feeling

Law10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Therapists Need Realism, Resources and Reflection to Overcome the Many Obstacles to Loving Their Patients Well

Medicine5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Specialization Often Isolates the Divinity School from the Chinese Department, and Interdisciplinary Dialogue Should Bridge Them

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Christian Love Need Not Be Limited to Persons: Scientists’ Fascination with Nature’s Laws Is a Real Love Too

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

Markets Depend on Benign Behaviour, but the Anonymity of Transactions Makes It Unclear Who Our Neighbour Even Is

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Otago

The Image-Bearing View of Humanity Is Central to Many Western Accounts of Dignity, Foundational to Human Rights Law

Law8 min read

University of Oxford

Like Jesus Meeting Doubting Thomas at His Point of Need, Historians Must Seek Past People in Their Own Contexts

Humanities7 min read

University of Technology Sydney

As Part of Divine Discourse, Scripture’s Summary Sayings Are Models That Are Simple Without Ever Being Simplistic

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

God Has One Will and Demands One Obedience, So a Joined-Up Life Requires a Joined-Up Law

35 min read

University of Otago

Feminists Have Long Criticised Presuming Consent Until Refused; Affirmative Consent Reforms Require It to Be Positively Communicated

Law1 min read

University of Rosario

To Count Love as an Epistemic Principle, the Argument Should Run from True Love to True Knowledge, Not the Reverse

Humanities2 min read

Kyoto University

Commissioning, Designing and Using a Building Can Itself Be an Act of Loving One’s Neighbour as Oneself

Architecture2 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

If Love Can Unify Moral Teaching, Empirical Research on Interpersonal Love Should Be a Priority for Scholars Across Disciplines

Public Health2 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

C. S. Lewis’s Sharp Division of Four Loves, Still Preached Today, Is a Semantic Fallacy That Ignores Context

Theology3 min read

University of Melbourne

Respect Shown in Love Underpins Our Social Contract, Which a College in the #MeToo Era Urges Members to Enact

Humanities2 min read

American Bar Foundation

Beyond Agape and Friendship, China’s Rights Lawyers’ Relationships Hint at Further Loves, from Wives’ Sisterhood to Defenders’ Solidarity

Law2 min read

Yale University

Asking Whether Students Will Be Good at a Career Can Uncover Hidden Motives, as a Mediocre Philosophy Student Found

Theology2 min read

University of Queensland

Eros, the Fire of Sexual Desire, Is Not Indispensable but Grounds Marriage’s Commitment for Better and for Worse

Law5 min read

University of Hong Kong

Human Rights Law Prescribes Dignity, Respect, and Equality — There Are Deep Similarities Between These Standards and the Love Command

Law2 min read

University of Hong Kong

Rules on Judges’ Conduct Often Rest on Virtues, and Virtuous Judges Can Sustain the Law’s Legitimacy and Public Esteem

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

If Faculty Lack Generosity, Justice, Courage and Humility, How Can Students Do More Than Reproduce the Deformations Around Them?

33 min read

University of Oxford

Science Research Involves a Complex Web of Relationships — the Sovereignty of Love Speaks Directly to How Labs Should Function

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

John M. Owen

University of Virginia

Love May Demand Special Loyalty to One’s Nation That Justice Forbids — or the Reverse

Public Policy1 min read

Yale Divinity School

A Habit That Dictates Automatic Responses Is No True Virtue, Which Responds Flexibly to Each Context

Theology1 min read

The Price System’s Genius Comes at a Cost: Anonymous Transactions That Leave Every Buyer to Beware

Social Sciences6 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Engineering That Creates What Harms Society, like the Nuclear Weapons Complex, May Be Anti-Knowledge, the Fruit of Sin in the World

Engineering1 min read

American Bar Foundation

Where Love Is Written on the Heart, Does Outward Law Enter the Inner Self, Drawing Legal Scholarship Toward Psychology?

Social Sciences8 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Economists Dissatisfied with Utilitarianism Are Giving Aristotle Some Credence, Opening Virtue Ethics as a Door for Worldviews into Economics

Social Sciences1 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

The Vexing Question Is Mercy and Justice, Not Love and Justice: Arguably, Acts of One Sometimes Violate the Other

Theology3 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Perhaps Muslim Friends Truly Love God, Even If Their Grasp of His Attributes Is, as Hays Believes, Partly Erroneous

Theology1 min read

Harvard Medical School

A Therapist’s Love for the Patient Is Often Central to Building the Therapeutic Alliance and to Healing the Unloved

Medicine1 min read

American Bar Foundation

Crackdown After Crackdown Since 2008, China’s Rights Lawyers Have Been Disappeared, Tortured, Imprisoned and Exiled

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

Jesus Gave Two Love Commands, Not One, Keeping the Creator Distinct from Created Goods Within Love Itself

6 min read

The Australian National University

Humanitarianism Is Founded on Explicitly Moral Principles Yet Struggles to Live Up to Them in Practice

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Belief in Moral Order Takes Faith, but a World of Glory and Horror Leaves the Evidence Ambiguous

20 min read

University of Melbourne

Central Banks Steer Aggregate Demand Through Interest Rates, a Lever That Moves Relatively Quickly, Unlike Taxes

Business6 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Randomized Trials Show Character-Based Interventions Promoting Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Purpose Measurably Improve Health Outcomes

Public Health7 min read

Montesquieu Argued Commerce Softens and Polishes Barbarous Manners — the Original Doux Commerce Thesis

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Eliot Insisted Christians Must Know Not Only What They Like in Literature but What They Ought to Like

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

AI Systems Designed to Mimic Rational Human Action Urgently Need Ethical Frameworks as They Increasingly Affect Human Welfare

Engineering18 min read

University of Hong Kong

Research Collaboration in Science Is Inherently Interpersonal and Requires Virtues Beyond Technical Competence

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Sydney Business School

Economic Models Expose the Unintended Consequences of Policy, Such as Tax Rises That Shrink Hours Worked

Business5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Paul Refuses Yes-or-No Binaries, Critiquing Greek Wisdom in Corinth While Leading Athenians from an Unknown God to Jesus

Theology11 min read

Yale University

Teaching Philosophy Should Aim Not at Regurgitated Lectures but at Students Who Think Philosophically and Enjoy It

Humanities10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Psychiatric Diagnosis Already Identifies Enduring Dispositions — Virtue Language Makes This Moral Dimension Explicit

Medicine6 min read

University of Edinburgh

Rules Need Virtue Too, for the Fruit of the Spirit Frames Moral Decisions Rather Than Escaping Them

Theology18 min read

University of Otago

Rape Was Once a Wrong Against a Man’s Property, His Wife or Daughter, Not Against the Woman Herself

Law5 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Seminaries That Want to Cultivate Virtue Should Seek Global Believers Who Expose Their Culture’s Ingrained Vices

Theology6 min read

Yale Divinity School

Virtues Form Us to Find Our Own Good in Shared Goods, Equipping Us to Serve the Common Good

38 min read

University of Bonn

The Religious Education Teacher Should Bear the Tradition Rather Than Transmit It, Gathering Those Already Inspired

Education4 min read

University of Hong Kong

There Are Often Tensions Between Individual and Communal Interests

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

From Pandemics to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Crises Trigger Calls for New or Reformed Legal Orders

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

An AI Trained on Cats and Dogs Cannot Recognize an Elephant: Accuracy Depends on the Quality of Training Data

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucian Tian Is Religious but Not Theistic — Part of the Cosmos Itself, Yet the Ground of Moral Norms and Awe

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Against Metaphysical Anti-Realism, the World Has Real Existence Outside of Human Conception of It

Humanities18 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

The Body’s Power to Heal Itself Is Part of God’s Providence, Though the Fall Limits Its Restoration

Public Health7 min read

University of Navarra

Benedict XVI Asks Whether the Match Between Mathematics and the Universe’s Structure Points to One Intelligence Behind Both

Humanities6 min read

University of Melbourne

A Collegiate Education Should Prepare Students for Life, Not Just Livelihood, Including Wrestling with Dangerous Ideas

Humanities3 min read

The University of Queensland

A Healthily Ordered Society Will Have Multiple Levels of Government and Social Institutions

Law3 min read

Harvard Medical School

Psychiatry Can Promote Flourishing Rather Than Just Treating Pathologies

Medicine2 min read

University College London

Being a Christian Adds a Burden for University Leaders in Communities Prone to Equate Faith with Oppressive Hierarchy

Law2 min read

Yale University

Art Exists to Help Us See the Evils in Things to Which We Have Become Desensitised

Fine & Performing Arts9 min read

Prices Give Orders to Consumers and Producers, but as Offers, Leaving Agents Some Freedom in How They Respond

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Oxford

The Trinitarian Community Is One of Love — Creation Itself Is an Act of Love

Public Policy6 min read

University of Hong Kong

Ancient Chinese and Greek Philosophies of Music

Fine & Performing Arts3 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Creation Is Diverse and Profuse as Well as Ordered

Humanities9 min read

University of Cambridge

By Reflecting on the Order in Nature, Christian Natural Philosophers Invented Modern Science

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Queensland

For Aquinas, Prudence Applies Universal Rules to Particular Cases, but Those Cases Are Too Contingent for Rules Alone

Law7 min read

Manuel David Morales

University of Guadalajara

Admiring Virtuous Exemplars May Not Be Enough, Morales Suspects, If Imitation Is Driven by Narcissism Rather Than Relationship

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Brandeis University

Economics, with Its Goods and Bads, Recognizes the Practical Wisdom Needed to Steward the World’s Scarce Resources

Social Sciences1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Chinese Bibles Borrow Confucian Ethical Terms, Opening the Way to Pair Li with Law, Ren with Spirit, Shame with the Cross

Theology1 min read

Brunel University

Social Media Blur Human and Machine: Are Extremism and Exclusion Technological or Human, and Can Media Cultivate Virtue?

Humanities3 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Listening Is a Virtue Jesus and James Commend, Yet Few of Us Are Genuinely Good Listeners

Humanities1 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Gratitude Can Be Trained in a Trial, but the Cardinal Virtues May Need Long-Term Communities of Formation

Public Health1 min read

University of Hong Kong

Research Leaders Need Courage to Treat Publications as Means, Not Ends, and to Keep Nurturing Compassionate Mentorships of Students

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

University of Melbourne

Gill’s New Sugden Institute Envisions Scholarly Yet Accessible Exploration of Public Debates on Reconciliation, Diversity and Sustainability

Humanities1 min read

University of Bonn

In Ambiguous Settings like Pandemic, War and Racial Injustice, Which Formal Procedures Can Help Virtue Come Alive?

Education2 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Could Cultivating Virtue in Citizens and Institutions, Aided by Christian Discernment, Help a Society Tell Truth from Lies?

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Yale University

Literature’s Moral Ambiguity Is Its Strength: Compromised Heroes Make Us Hunger for a Virtuous Vision

Fine & Performing Arts3 min read

Connie Svob

Columbia University

Forming Some Virtues May Begin in Ordinary Cognition, Refined into Intellect and Then, Through Moral Practice, into Prudence

Medicine1 min read

Yale University

One Can Act Justly Merely Because the Law Requires It, Without the Settled Disposition of a Just Person

Humanities1 min read

University of Hong Kong

Courage Enables Lawyers to Voice and Challenge Established Norms That Unfairly Favor the Privileged or Prejudice Minorities

Law1 min read

John Inazu

Washington University

Without Cultivated Virtues, Words like Equality and Justice Are Open to Capture by the Loudest Voices and Deepest Pockets

Law1 min read

Harvard University

The Stoic Claim That Virtue Suffices for Happiness Is Pilloried More Than Refuted; Annas Finds Apparent Paradoxes in Aristotle’s Too

Theology2 min read

American Bar Foundation

Can an Organization Possess an Emergent Virtue of Its Own, Beyond the Character of the People Within It?

LawSocial Sciences1 min read

University of Otago

What Vices Do Our Rape Laws Entrench, and What Virtues Could Consent Reform and Law’s Educative Function Promote?

Law1 min read

University of Oxford

A Large Literature Traces the 2008 Financial Crisis as Much to a Collapse of Virtuous Behaviour as to Technical Failure

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Edinburgh

Does Calling Christ the Exemplar of Virtue Invite Kant’s Reduction, and Might He Be Virtue’s Concrete Form Instead?

Theology2 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

The Church’s Record on Sexual Abuse Casts Doubt on How Readily Virtuous People Form Virtuous Institutions

Social Sciences1 min read

Rafael Vicuña

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Prestige Is No Guarantee of Formation: As Professors Withdraw Personal Attention, Elite Universities May Be Shortchanging Undergraduates

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

La Trobe University

From Russia to Afghanistan to Hong Kong, Activists’ Virtue Embodies the Universal Demands of Human Dignity — at Great Human Cost

Law1 min read

University of Oxford

Reviving Virtue Ethics Without a Fine Balance with Grace May Easily Let Virtue Creep Back as Earned Merit

Public Policy1 min read

University of Navarra

All Scientific Progress Ultimately Rests on Scientists Sharing Virtues like Truthfulness, Industriousness and Humility

Humanities1 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

If Muslims Show Settled Virtue Through Islam’s Five Pillars, Is Reserving True Virtue to Spirit-Infused Christians Special Pleading?

Theology1 min read

Harvard Medical School

Therapists’ Preferred Virtues Are Not Neutral: They Reflect the Spiritual Commitments Each Brings to Clinical Work

Medicine1 min read

University of Melbourne

The Christian Virtues Overarch Harper’s Policy Thinking as He Seeks How Best to Love His Neighbour Through Economics

Business1 min read

University of Oxford

Why Does an Account of Moral Order Rooted in Creation Pass Over Sinai’s Law and Biblical Ethics?

Social Sciences2 min read

American Bar Foundation

Appeals to the Created Order May Aid Cross-Cultural and Inter-Religious Dialogue

Social SciencesLaw1 min read

University of Oxford

In the Realists’ Tragic View, Beating Swords into Ploughshares Short of the Second Coming May Invite Military Disaster

Social Sciences1 min read

Brandeis University

Moral Law Obtains in International Relations Even Without Formal Contracts

Social Sciences1 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Calling Creation Rational Is Potentially Reductive: Overstating Its Order Underestimates God

Social Sciences2 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Can Being an End in Itself and Being Almost Universally Desired Establish Which Human Goods Are Basic?

Medicine1 min read

Harvard Medical School

Accountability, a Virtue That Includes Embracing Corrective Input, Shows How Moral Rules Can Guide Patients Toward Flourishing

Medicine1 min read

University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s Common Law Values, Including the Rule of Law, Are Under Serious Challenge and Must Be Defended

Law1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Modern Physics Has Abandoned Rigid Determinism, Leaving Room for the Freedom That Moral Choice Requires

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Barbara Drossel

Technical University of Darmstadt

Omnipresent Across Science, Top-Down Causation Refutes Physicalism and Is, to Drossel, the Best Approach to Explaining God’s Action

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Could Chaos Be Woven into the Created Order, So That Disorder Is Sometimes Morally Justified?

Theology1 min read

University of Otago

Against Western Individualism, the Order God Establishes in Creation Is a Condition of Freedom, and Disorder Its Threat

Theology1 min read

University of Edinburgh

Christians Have Always Held That Regimes Can Sin, but Not Always Agreed Whether Citizens May Act Against Them

Theology2 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

What Paul Took to Be Nature’s Teaching on Long Hair Shows How Culture Can Masquerade as Moral Order

Theology2 min read

Yale University

Christian Scholars Who Never Feel Awe Before the Cosmos or Horror at Human Wrongdoing Are Seriously Deficient

Humanities1 min read

University of Sheffield

In the Hebrew Bible, God Often Uses the Non-Human Creation to Bring About His Will

Humanities1 min read

University of Melbourne

It Is Important to Consider Religion When Seeking to Promote International Order

Humanities4 min read

University of Hong Kong

Christians from Clement to Boethius Adopted Pythagorean Music Theory, a Vision of Music Not Centred on Humanity

Fine & Performing Arts1 min read

American Bar Foundation

Who Crafts the Rules of the Global Economy, Who Is Missing, and What Follows for Flourishing in Rich and Poor Countries?

Social SciencesLaw2 min read

Australian National University

International Justice Increasingly Reaches Only the Most Serious Offenders, Leaving Restorative Justice for Conflict-Affected Communities Behind

Social Sciences1 min read

Brandeis University

Measuring Material Well-Being Helps Economists Locate Deprivation, Answering the Bible’s Call to Serve the Poor

Social Sciences1 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Social Structure, from Birth to a Pandemic, Can Sharply Limit Agency, So Perhaps ‘Fulfilment’ Is Better Than Flourishing

Social Sciences2 min read

University of Oxford

Flourishing Enables Fruitfulness, but the Bible Prizes It for Its Own Sake Against an Instrumental View of Life

Social Sciences1 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Peace in Romans 14 Is No Passive Circumstance: Biblical Shalom Is Something Paul Urges Believers to Pursue

Social Sciences1 min read

Jane Green

University of Oxford

Low Election Turnout Signals Unhealthy Democracy, but High Turnout Driven by Compulsion or Polarisation Is No Sign of Health

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Paul’s ‘in Adam’ and ‘in Christ’ Persons Could Give Economics a Richer Kind of Representative Agent

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Oxford

Sen’s Capabilities Approach Gives Economists an Agential Measure of Flourishing, Now Used to Index Poverty Worldwide

Social Sciences3 min read

Priscilla Chiu

University of Toronto

Physician Burnout Is Met with Calls for Resilience, a Tacit Admission That Much of Academic Medicine Drains the Soul

Medicine1 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

If Physical Health Counts Toward Flourishing, What Constitutes Bodily Health Is Only Partly a Matter of Anatomy and Physiology

Public Health3 min read

Columbia University

Sickness and Dying Need Not Rule Out Flourishing, Though Virtue amid Adversity May Yield Only a Qualified Form

Medicine1 min read

University of Melbourne

Teaching Public Law in Sri Lanka Means Confronting How Constitutional Provisions Both Enable and Fail to Deliver Flourishing

Law1 min read

La Trobe University

Under Political Suppression, Suffering May Only Harden Some Activists’ Resolve and Bring Out an Emotional Dimension of Flourishing

Law1 min read

University of Otago

Framing Sexual Violence as an Assault on Dignity Shows That Personhood Itself, Not Just the Body, Is at Stake

Law1 min read

University of Rosario

Deep Suffering Can Produce the Surrender and Emptiness Needed to Rediscover That Flourishing Is Not a Possession of the Autonomous Self

Humanities1 min read

University of Calabar

How Can Cultivating Critical Thinking Address the Socioeconomic Disabilities That Undermine Flourishing in the Global South?

Humanities1 min read

Monash University

The Social Contract as Metaphor Can Both Clarify and Obscure the Prerequisites of Flourishing

Humanities1 min read

Yale University

Three Colloquial Questions — How You’re Doing, How It’s Going, How You’re Feeling — Capture Flourishing’s Three Dimensions

Humanities1 min read

University of Otago

Like Shalom, Flourishing Is Relational: No One Flourishes Apart from the Community, Especially the Widow, Orphan and Stranger

Theology1 min read

University of Oxford

Liberal Novelists like Chad Harbach and Paul Auster Expose How Limited Our Capacity for Self-Creation Really Is

Theology1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucian Moral Language and Paul’s Fruit of the Spirit Can Arrive at a Similar Vision of Flourishing

Theology1 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

However Disadvantaged, Displaced People Have One Advantage: Christ and His Body, the Church, Are on Their Side

Theology1 min read

University of Edinburgh

Augustine’s City of God Asks Whether Happiness Has Immanent Grounds in Worldly Existence or Must Be Transcendent

Theology1 min read

Krzysztof Wojciechowski

AGH University of Science and Technology

Flourishing Is Bound Up with Consistent Moral Norms, and God’s Laws Can Serve as a Compass Toward It

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

University of Alberta

Flourishing’s Three Dimensions, Distinct Yet Each Containing the Others, May Echo the Trinity: A Beautiful Image, If Intended

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Ironically, Those Who Overrate Scientific Method Often Know Little of What Natural Science Has Actually Discovered

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Andrew Briggs

University of Oxford

Material Flourishing Is Concrete: Enough Food, Clean Water, Sleep, Health, a Safe Home and Freedom from Money Worries

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Yale University

A Theology of Flourishing Must Include Particular Place, Not Generic Space: Does Our Rootless Built Environment Prejudice Flourishing?

Architecture1 min read

University of Notre Dame

What Does It Mean for Communities to Flourish, and How Does That Relate to Individuals?

Architecture5 min read

Kyoto University

Disaster Survivors Are Active Agents, Not Passive Victims, and Their Families and Neighbours Are the True First Responders

Architecture2 min read

University of Notre Dame

Could Justice Be the Goal of Practical Reason, as Beauty Is of Making and Truth of Thinking?

Architecture1 min read

Yale University

Can We Claim Rights Before God, or Is Rights Language Strictly Human-to-Human in Light of Romans 9?

Architecture1 min read

University of Hong Kong

Does NASA’s Music on Voyager, Sent to ‘Come in Peace’, Extend the Question of First-Order Justice Beyond Our Species?

Fine & Performing Arts1 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

How Should Policymakers Set Priorities When the Goods of Human Flourishing Cannot Be Measured on One Scale?

Public Health1 min read

Columbia University

Treating the Smoker’s Lung Cancer Despite His Complicity Is a Mercy Built into Medicine, Not a Matter of Justice

Medicine1 min read

Harvard Medical School

For Therapists, Welcoming Input from Those They Answer to Seems Itself an Expression of Justice, Giving What Is Due

Medicine1 min read

University of Alberta

A Decade Overseeing 150 Graduate Students Suggests Injustice Toward Students Is Not Pervasive, Though All Could Do Better

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

University of Queensland

A Study McKenzie Cites Finds Medical Research Chasing Rich Countries’ Diseases While Poorer Nations’ Health Needs Go Neglected

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Universities’ Strong Drift Toward Professional Training over Forming Educated Citizens Makes Teaching Ethics Quite a Puzzle

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Jeff Hardin

University of Wisconsin-Madison

If Rights Rest on Worth, Is Worth a Set of Traits Encapsulating Excellence, or Is It Intrinsic to Humans?

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Will the Proliferating Dumping of Debris in Space Hamper Others from Using Space, Making It a Justice Problem?

Engineering1 min read

American Bar Foundation

Second-Order Justice, from Legal Freedoms to Accountable Justice Systems, Is a Persistent Battleground in Struggles for Open Societies

LawSocial Sciences1 min read

Emily Messer

University of Texas

How Do Children Come to Grasp Fairness, and How Much Does Their Social Group Shape What They Learn?

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Oxford

How Does Biblical Justice, Framed by Covenant, Relate to the Justice of Contract?

Social Sciences1 min read

University of British Columbia in Vancouver

How Does the Imago Dei, Tied to Human Rights, Relate to Historical Attempts to Exclude Some People from the ‘Human’?

Social Sciences3 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Talk of Rendering Persons Their Due Does Not Always Capture the Covenantal, Relational and Cosmic Scope of Biblical Justice

Social Sciences1 min read

Brandeis University

Anti-Trade Attitudes Might Soften If We Respected the Worth of Our Neighbours Abroad and Wanted Them to Flourish Too

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Nietzsche’s Power Discourse, Privileging the Strong and Beautiful, Lends Free Market Liberalism a Legitimizing Story

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Cambridge

How Does Justice Become Embedded in Social Structures, and Do the Same Criteria Apply to Persons and Institutions?

Social Sciences1 min read

La Trobe University

Courts Mostly Handle Second-Order Justice, but Ordinary People May Care More About How Society Treats Them Justly

Social SciencesLaw1 min read

Robert Joustra

Redeemer University

Turning Literature, Theater and Music into Vehicles for Political Commentary Reduces Art to Activism, Short of Its Full Worth

Social Sciences1 min read

Australian National University

Would Focusing on Duties Rather Than Rights Reveal Who Must Secure Justice for Refugees and the Environment?

Social Sciences1 min read

Yale Divinity School

Is What We Owe Others Grounded in Their Humanity, or in Their Individual Features and Social Belonging?

Theology1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

The Nuances of Justice in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English Reveal How Language Shapes Our Understanding of Core Moral Concepts

Theology1 min read

University of Oxford

What Can Documentary Cinema, So Often Explicitly Concerned with Justice, Contribute to a Theology of Justice?

Theology1 min read

University of Edinburgh

Love as the Overarching Normative Moral Category Governing Interactions Among Persons Considered Apart from the Exercise of Judgment, Not Justice

Theology1 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Colombians Expect the State to Restore Their Violated Rights, but It Lacks the Means — and They Forget Their Own Responsibility

Theology2 min read

Bakke Graduate University

If Justice Drove the Reformation, Today’s Inequities in a Global Church Ask Whether It Should Continue

Humanities1 min read

Eleonore Stump

Saint Louis University

Reconciling Care with Justice Echoes the Political Puzzle of Collective Versus Individual Standpoints, and Aquinas Can Help

Humanities1 min read

University of Sheffield

Western Thinkers Face Significant Impediments to Understanding Hebrew Bible Texts on Justice Without Attending to Ancient Near Eastern Context

Humanities1 min read

University of Calabar

Perpetrators of Injustice Know What Justice Demands Yet Pay It Lip Service: How Can Knowing Become Doing?

Humanities1 min read

Auckland University of Technology

How You Talk Shapes How You Are Regarded, and Language Judgments May Control the Jobs and Schools People Get

Humanities1 min read

Peter Anstey

University of Sydney

A Child’s Right to Care Is Founded on the Parent’s Duty: Remove the Duty and the Right Disappears

Humanities1 min read

Monash University

Can I Treat My Dog or a River Unjustly If No Other Human Being Is Affected?

Humanities1 min read

University of Leicester

The Bible Was Recruited to Justify Slavery and Coercion, an Abuse That Reveals More About Humans Than About God

Humanities1 min read

University of Otago

High Hopes to Explore Comparative Dimensions of Human Dignity in Collaboration with Indigenous Researchers

Law1 min read

University of Melbourne

A Scholarly Commitment to First-Order Justice Must Extend to the Methods and Boundaries of Our Disciplines

Law1 min read

The University of Queensland

Religious Freedom Is Exercised in Community with Others, Including the Right to Found Religious Associations

Law1 min read

University of Hong Kong

When Rules Let the Rich Withhold What the Poor Are Due, Distributive Justice Fails Along with Human Rights

Law1 min read

María Carmelina Londoño

Universidad de La Sabana

Londoño Finds Wolterstorff’s Two Orders of Justice Perfectly Aligned with Her Critique of Inter-American Court Jurisprudence

Law1 min read

Benny Tai Yiu Ting (戴耀廷)

University of Hong Kong

Systemic Change Alone Cannot Mend Injustice: Hong Kong’s Legal Culture Must Itself Learn to Embrace Justice

Law1 min read

University of Oxford

Order Is Prized in the Development of Chinese Political Philosophy

32 min read

Yale University

Considering How Rights Talk Can Foster Passivity

30 min read

Yale Divinity School

Institutions like Universities Form Character, and Are Themselves Formed by the Character of Their Members

4 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Perfect Health Equality Is Unattainable and Could Drive Perverse Levelling Down; Justice Might Instead Mean Equal Respect for Rights

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

The Science and Economics of Climate Change Justice

Social Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

God’s Created Order Is Not Merely Physical but Value-Laden, and Its Goodness Is the Foundation of Morality

4 min read

Northwestern University

Notice and Comment Is How the Public Gets a Say in Laws That Unelected Agency Officials Now Write

Law5 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Linguistic Diversity Reflects the Abundance of God’s Creation, and a Just Society Hears All Its Voices

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

People Will Not Act Justly Unless They Have the Disposition to Do So, as Wolterstorff Himself Appears to Concede

Law18 min read

University of Rosario

The University’s Claim to Universal Knowledge Quietly Shuts Out Traditions That Have Been Neglected or Erased

Humanities3 min read

The Australian National University

Obligations of Wealthy Countries to Poorer Countries

Social Sciences12 min read

Universidad Austral

Fostering Creative Pluralism Through in Interdisciplinary Research

Humanities3 min read

Kyoto University

Fair Trade Before Charity: Senior Nigerians and Sudanese Told Dr Darling They Wanted a Fair Price, Not Technical Aid

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Conservative Christians Who Blame the Enlightenment for Rights Talk Accept a Genealogy That Begins Far Too Late

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

In the Economy According to Mosaic Law and the Prophets

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Face-to-Face Dialogue Lets Victims and Offenders Meet as Full Human Beings, Not Simply as Legal Ciphers

Social Sciences17 min read

Australian National University

Contemporary Rights-Talk Is Not Enough

Social Sciences7 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Government-Supported Communications Public Goods, Accessible to Everyone

Engineering2 min read

Bakke Graduate University

What Makes a Christian’s Interest in Justice Different from That of an Atheist, a Buddhist or a Muslim?

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

I Have Reservations About an “Intoxication with Rights” as a Measure of Lived-Out Christianity

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

From Wartime Violence Against Women to Pandemics, Almost Any Cross-Border Problem Is Answered by Transnational Law

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

Scripture’s Seeming Cases of Divine Injustice Dissolve into a God Who Renders to Each His Due

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Global Governance of Human Protection Must Address Power Structures in Key Institutions

Social Sciences12 min read

University of Otago

International Human Rights Law Made Dignity Its Hallmark: The Equal, Inalienable Worth the Second World War’s Atrocities Denied

Law4 min read

University of Melbourne

Challenges to Academic Publishing in the Global South

Law4 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

On the Relationship Between Justice and Friendship and Love

Theology11 min read

Harvard Medical School

Trauma Leaves Many Patients with a Shattered World View, as Judith Herman Notes, and Facing Injustice Is an Important Task of Their Therapy

Medicine1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Every Reader Receives Scripture Through a Culture; Attending to That Lens Lets Its Message Reach New Contexts

Theology15 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Justice in Science Focused More on Scientific Social Practice and Applications, Not the Content of Scientific Knowledge

EngineeringBiological & Physical Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Human Rights Violations in Civil Armed Conflict, Colombia

Theology18 min read

Flourishing Has Three Dimensions: Agential (Living Well), Circumstantial (Life Going Well), and Emotional (Feeling Well)

4 min read

Yale University

The Old Testament Declares God’s Love of Justice Dozens of Times and Calls Israel to Love It Too

43 min read

Yale University

Justice Is Rendering to Each What Is Their Right — and Rights Are Grounded in the Inherent Dignity and Worth of Persons

5 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Iris Murdoch’s “Just and Loving Gaze” Shows That Seeing Another Truly Must Precede Deciding What to Do

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

The Fine-Tuned Physics Behind Haemoglobin May Point Those Willing to Look Toward the Creator’s Love for His Creatures

Biological & Physical Sciences5 min read

University of Oxford

Faith Hears Scholarship as a Calling, Love Attends to Its Data, and Hope Trusts God to Sanctify It

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

O’Donovan Holds That Because Law Is a Living Presence Changing with Society, Love for Particular Persons Must Always Interpret It

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

Hemoglobin’s Switch from High- to Low-Spin Iron, Which Lets Blood Carry Oxygen, Speaks Loudly of the Creator

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

University of Oxford

Scientists’ Eyes Tend to Light Up over Mitochondria, While Much of the Humanities Distrusts Affection for What It Studies

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Unitive Love Seeks Union with the Beloved, Contributory Love Its Good, and Human Relationships Often Hope for Both

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Hostile Reviewers, Rival Colleagues and Meddling Bureaucrats Are Among the Academic Enemies Christians Are Called to Love

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Was God Silent Among Australia’s Indigenous Peoples for 65,000 Years Until the First Fleet Landed?

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

We Swim in the River Before We Do Biology: Science Is Always an Abstraction from the Lived World

Humanities13 min read

University of Queensland

Divorce Usually Has a Leaver and a Left, and Its Financial, Emotional and Relational Losses Fall Unevenly

Law10 min read

Harvard Medical School

That Neighbours Differ in Their Claims on Our Love Encourages Clinicians to Ask What Claim Their Patients Have

Medicine5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

The Word Agapē Can Name a Rapist’s Desire or the Father’s Love for the Son — Context Decides Its Meaning

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

If “the Law and the Prophets” Excludes the Writings, the Two Great Commandments May Not Exhaust Biblical Love

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

On O’Donovan’s Vision, Love Is Tailor-Made to Need: Food for the Starving, Comfort for the Grieving, Affirmation Where Needed

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Otago

Rape Law Long Treated Consent as an Inner Attitude, Letting Men Presume It Without Any Word or Gesture

Law8 min read

University of Oxford

Jesus’ Shift from Agape to Peter’s Word for Friendship Shows Love Making Its New Beginning on the Beloved’s Terms

Humanities7 min read

University of Technology Sydney

When a Famous Philosopher Discussed the Love Commands, the Bible Brought Discomfort; O’Donovan Lets Scripture’s Echo Resonate Freely

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

On Love the Law and the Prophets Hang — They Derive Their Intelligibility from It, Not the Other Way Around

35 min read

University of Rosario

Is It Love Itself That Discloses Each Thing’s Particular Reality, Rather Than Presupposing Knowledge of Their Differences?

Humanities2 min read

Kyoto University

Oodi’s Magnanimous Design, Drawing up to 20,000 Visitors a Day, Challenges Every Socially Concerned Architect and Planner

Architecture2 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Can We Talk About Love Responsibly Without Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics — Love Is Beleaguered in a Polarizing World

Theology3 min read

University of Melbourne

Leading a Residential College Means Embodying Love as Directive Attention to the Good of Students, Staff, and the Community

Humanities2 min read

American Bar Foundation

Some of China’s Christian Lawyers Insist Love Fuels Their Fight for Justice, and Justice Is a Way of Loving Neighbours

Law2 min read

Yale University

Is Pleasing Parents Who Push Lucrative Law or Medicine Worth a Lifetime of Doing Work You Don’t Love?

Theology2 min read

University of Queensland

The Fashion for Announcing Amicable Separations in Glowing Terms Masks How Rarely Breakups Are Truly Mutual

Law5 min read

University of Hong Kong

Equality Law Can Enforce Minimum Standards Against Discrimination, but Can It Change Hearts Toward Love?

Law2 min read

University of Hong Kong

Judges May Profess Hart’s Positivism, but Some Rulings Reveal Values and Politics at Work, as Legal Realism Explains

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Most Scholars Chose Their Discipline Not for Prestige but Because Something in It Fascinated and Moved Them

33 min read

University of Oxford

An Underperforming, Disruptive Student Is Not Merely a Problem to Solve but a Precious Person in God’s Image

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

John M. Owen

University of Virginia

Linking Love to Knowledge Illuminates How Differentiated Loving Practices — Fidelity, Patience, Courage — Operate in Global Affairs

Public Policy1 min read

Yale Divinity School

Love as the Form of the Virtues Partly Takes Practical Wisdom’s Old Place, So How Do the Two Relate?

Theology1 min read

Asymmetric Information, Not Monopoly, Is the Market’s Gravest Problem, Since Sellers Rationally Exploit What Buyers Cannot Inspect

Social Sciences6 min read

American Bar Foundation

Was the Love Command’s Historical Climax at Sinai, in Jesus, or Also in Later Breakthroughs like Abolition?

Social Sciences8 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Can Christian Economists Rival Aristotle with an Account of the Loving Life That Ideally Reaches into Commercial Transactions?

Social Sciences1 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Justice and Mercy Toward the Vulnerable Seem at Times to Warrant Withholding Mercy from Victimizers, Such as Persistent Abusers

Theology3 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Could Atheists’ Genuine Love Flow from an Unwitting Love of the Creator, Reflected in the Creation They Cherish?

Theology1 min read

Harvard Medical School

Perhaps as Justice Can Be in Tension with Love, Clinical Boundaries Can Complicate What a Therapist Can and Should Do

Medicine1 min read

American Bar Foundation

A Small Vanguard of Chinese Rights Lawyers Took on the Most Sensitive Cases — Religious Freedom, Land Seizures, Political Dissidents — at Enormous Personal Cost

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

The Breadth of Love Risks Leaving It Without Definite Content — Yet Narrowing It Betrays Its Sovereignty

6 min read

The Australian National University

Over 80% of Humanitarian Relief Is Government or Institutionally Funded, and Five Donors Alone Supply Almost Half

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Hope That Things Will Be Different Can Survive Even the Holocaust, as Some Survivors’ Restored Faith Shows

20 min read

University of Melbourne

Taming Inflation Almost Inevitably Costs Jobs, and in the Short Term Lost Livelihoods Easily Outweigh the Benefit of Stable Prices

Business6 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Empirical Research on Character Interventions Suggests That Spreading Them Through Schools, Workplaces and National Campaigns Might Advance Health

Public Health7 min read

Marx Argued Market Exchange Reduces All Human Relations to Naked Self-Interest, Corroding the Social Bonds Commerce Depends On

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Secularization, Eliot Argued, Left Criticism Without a Shared Moral Code and Suspended Resolute Moral Judgment Itself

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

An AI’s Ethics May Ultimately Be Dictated by Its Developers, Its Training Context and Those Who Exploit It

Engineering18 min read

University of Hong Kong

Confucian Academic Hierarchy Can Both Cultivate and Distort Virtues in Research Supervision

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Sydney Business School

Economic Models Are Powerful for Prediction but Normatively Empty

Business5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Israelite Wisdom Engages with Near Eastern Virtue Traditions Rather Than Dismissing Them

Theology11 min read

Yale University

Calling Questions Dumb, Playing Favorites and Putting Down Dissenters Are Among the Ways Professors Abuse the Classroom’s Power Imbalance

Humanities10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Depression Often Calls for Forgiveness and Courage, Anxiety for Equanimity, Addiction for Accountability: Disorders Can Signal a Needed Virtue

Medicine6 min read

University of Edinburgh

Speaking of Virtue Only in the Singular Usually Collapses Morality into One Response, as Warrior Cultures Do with Courage

Theology18 min read

University of Otago

The Marital Immunity Rule Showed the Bleak Cost of Treating Women’s Bodies as Sites of Harm Done to Men

Law5 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Pagan and Christian Virtue Acquisition Differ, but Abrahamic Traditions Share Enough Common Ground for Genuine Dialogue

Theology6 min read

Yale Divinity School

Virtues Are Stable Dispositions, Without Which a Person Acts Well Only Sporadically and Not for the Right Reasons

38 min read

University of Bonn

What a Pupil Takes from Religious Education Cannot Be Planned, Because Learning Is an Act of Freedom

Education4 min read

University of Hong Kong

Democratic Law Comes from Deliberation and Compromise, Authoritarian Law from Sovereign Will; Neither Fully Realizes God’s Moral Law

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

A Vibrant Social Order Requires Disturbance as an Impetus to Constructive Change

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

AI’s Ability to Discern Order in Nature Is Limited

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Christian Doctrine of Creation Compared with a Confucian View

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Scripture Pictures God Placing Human Beings into a World Ready-Made, Not One Carved Up by Our Concepts

Humanities18 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Since All Eventually Die, Public Health Should Let Mortality Inform How It Distributes Resources for Health

Public Health7 min read

University of Navarra

Faith in a Rational Creator Warrants the Order of Nature, but Does Intelligibility Require Belief?

Humanities6 min read

University of Melbourne

A College-Based Centre Became a Safe Place to Debate Christian Perspectives That Many Mainstream Academics Shun

Humanities3 min read

The University of Queensland

Althusius Saw the Family as the Most Basic Order of Government, an Organism That Sustains Its Members

Law3 min read

Harvard Medical School

Perhaps Grounding Therapy in Human Goods Would Make Clinicians Less Likely to Slide into Moral Subjectivism About Patients’ Values

Medicine2 min read

University College London

Academic Virtues Displayed in University Leadership

Law2 min read

Yale University

Art Helps Us Become Moral Through Both Contemplation of What Is Good and Depiction of What Is Evil

Fine & Performing Arts9 min read

Market Economies Need Private Property, Money, and a Framework of Law or Social Custom to Function

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Oxford

The Ukraine War Threatens a Dangerous Era of High Unpredictability and Low Trust

Public Policy6 min read

University of Hong Kong

Joy Is the Virtue That Combines Order and Freedom in Equilibrium

Fine & Performing Arts3 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Overemphasising Creation’s Rationality Risks Minimising the Role of Imagination

Humanities9 min read

University of Cambridge

Science Arose Because Scholars Believed That God Had Ordered the Natural World and This Order Was Discernible Through Experimentation

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Queensland

Aquinas’s Prudence Draws on Memory, Teachability and Circumspection, and Knows When Rules of Thumb Must Yield

Law7 min read

Manuel David Morales

University of Guadalajara

Open and Relational Christians Could Help the Open Science Movement Reach Genuine Virtues of Cooperation and Inclusion

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Brandeis University

In Many Academic Settings, Careerism Applauded Self-Promotion over Humility and Selflessness, Often Leaving Derision, Illness and Lost Self-Worth

Social Sciences1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Western Classical Virtue Traditions Need Enriching from Chinese and Near Eastern Ethical Thought

Theology1 min read

Brunel University

Evangelicals’ Deep Role in Brazil’s Fake News Since 2018 Asks Whether Cultivating Virtue Could Stem Disinformation

Humanities3 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Good Listening Is the Often Unrecognized Foundation of Good Relationships, Interpersonal and Institutional, the Academy Included

Humanities1 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Measuring Character Is Hard, So It Would Help to Learn Which Virtues Are More, or Less, Open to Empirical Assessment

Public Health1 min read

University of Bonn

Moral Education Must Move from Admiring Virtuous Examples to Engaging Them Critically, a Harder Stage Needing Extra Attention

Education2 min read

Yale University

Literature Affects Us as Entire Human Beings — Reading Shapes Moral Character Whether We Intend It to or Not

Fine & Performing Arts3 min read

Yale University

Treating Students and Interlocutors with Dignity Is Prime Among a Christian Scholar’s Virtues, Even Toward the Long-Dead Augustine

Humanities1 min read

University of Hong Kong

Intellectual Virtues Enable Legal Scholars to Research What Serves Human Flourishing, Even When Prestigious Journals May Not Publish It

Law1 min read

Harvard University

Aristotle and Aquinas Thought True Virtue Rare, a Claim Theologians Must Face If Virtue Is to Shape Society

Theology2 min read

American Bar Foundation

Can the IMF Properly Be Held to a Virtue of Humility in Its Institutional Solutions for Financial Crises?

LawSocial Sciences1 min read

University of Oxford

Profit-Linked Pay, Some Suggest, Undermined the City of London’s Moral Code, and Incentive-Centred Teaching Eroded a New Generation’s Virtue

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Edinburgh

Does Each Saint Embody the Whole Form of Virtue or Inspire Just One, and What of Their Vices?

Theology2 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

In Criminal Justice, Institutional Forces Seem to Defeat Virtuous Actors, and Evidence Shows So-Called Rehabilitation Often Does the Opposite

Social Sciences1 min read

Rafael Vicuña

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Generosity, Justice and Courage Would Turn Professors Back Toward Their Students and the Common Good

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

University of Oxford

Jesus’ Teaching on Divorce Shows How Moral Law Accommodates Hardness of Heart

Social Sciences2 min read

American Bar Foundation

Disorder Provides a Means for Renewing the Social Order

Social SciencesLaw1 min read

University of Oxford

Personal Charity May Please God, but Can We Be Sure He Approves Foreign Aid from Constituents’ Income Without Consent?

Social Sciences1 min read

Brandeis University

International Law Needs to Appeal to Some Kind of Universal Moral Order to Have Authority

Social Sciences1 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Theologians Want to Make Order out of Revelation, While Old Testament Scholars Are More Comfortable with Uncertainty

Social Sciences2 min read

University of Hong Kong

Jus Cogens Norms like Prohibitions on Torture Bind All States Regardless of Consent

Law1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Belief in a Higher Moral Authority Carries Political Risk, Since It Can Be Corrupted into Merely Human Hegemony

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Barbara Drossel

Technical University of Darmstadt

God’s Everyday Action Keeps Nature’s Laws, but the Resurrection Likely Transcends Them, Foreshadowing New Creation

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Academic Virtues Are Worship Practices

Theology1 min read

University of Edinburgh

How the Moral Order Might Be Communicated Through the History of Salvation

Theology2 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Jesus’ Argument from the Unworried Birds Sits Uneasily with Starvation, and with Christians Who Save for Retirement

Theology2 min read

University of Sheffield

How Can Intellectual Humility About the Limits of Human Knowledge Coexist with the Pursuit of Intellectual Progress?

Humanities1 min read

University of Melbourne

Fruitful Christian Debate Dies When Scholars Take Themselves Too Seriously; Charity and Humility Must Replace Ego

Humanities4 min read

University of Hong Kong

Voyager’s Golden Record, Sending Earth’s Music into Space, Quietly Presupposes an Ontology of Peace

Fine & Performing Arts1 min read

American Bar Foundation

Who Are the Norm Entrepreneurs Behind International Law, and What Role Do Carriers of Flourishing Ideals Play Among Them?

Social SciencesLaw2 min read

Australian National University

Engineered Social Policies Fall Short of the Fullness Christ Promises, Yet a Christian Ideal Still Orients the Work

Social Sciences1 min read

Auckland University of Technology

The Word ‘Flourishing’ Itself Carries Assumptions — Its Vegetable Etymology Grounds Abstraction in Embodied Growth

Social Sciences2 min read

Jane Green

University of Oxford

Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit Are Not Distinct Dimensions of Flourishing but Conjunctively Causal

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Technology Sydney

A Christian Picture of Humanity Includes Sin, So for Flourishing Alone, Might We Begin with Jesus Himself?

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Oxford

Happiness Economics Maps Flourishing’s Emotional Dimension, One of Several Literatures Christian Economists Must Weigh for Positives and Dissent

Social Sciences3 min read

Priscilla Chiu

University of Toronto

Resilience Only Lets Surgeons Bend Without Breaking; Flourishing Is Life and Growth Given by God

Medicine1 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Christians Should Seek Broad Consensus with Other Traditions to Resist Reducing Well-Being to Wealth and Health

Public Health3 min read

University of Melbourne

Christian Hope in Consummation Lets Believers Imagine Flourishing Through Law Even When the Powerful Abuse It

Law1 min read

University of Rosario

It Is God Who Makes Us Flourish, and Children’s Unhindered Spontaneity Shows How to Receive the Gift

Humanities1 min read

University of Oxford

Freedom Becomes Flourishing Only Through Virtues, Which Research Suggests Can Be Intentionally Cultivated

Theology1 min read

Krzysztof Wojciechowski

AGH University of Science and Technology

Grading Students and Ranking Colleagues Fairly Is Hard Enough That Academics Need External Standards of Justice

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

University of Alberta

Teaching Only Right Facts May Be Too One-Dimensional for Students to Flourish; Chacko’s Best Classes Transferred His Joy

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Many Now Regard Utilitarianism as a Rationalistic Ethical Calculus, Making It an Odd Example of Emphasizing Feeling Well

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Andrew Briggs

University of Oxford

Relational Flourishing Begins with a Baby’s Parents but Reaches Beyond Humans to Animals, Perhaps Robots, and God

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Yale University

The Pandemic Forced Us to Rediscover the Particular Places We Live In, and Perhaps to Flourish There

Architecture1 min read

University of Notre Dame

Making Joy the Emotional Mark of Everyday Flourishing Seems an Unnecessary Burden on Those Not Temperamentally Disposed to Joy

Architecture5 min read

Kyoto University

Rebuilding After Disaster Should Draw on Local Skills, Labour and Materials Rather Than Imported Industrial Solutions

Architecture2 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Religious Communities Contribute to Human Flourishing, So How Should Governments Acknowledge and Promote Their Role?

Public Health1 min read

University of Alberta

Christian Supervisors Should Treat Their Graduate Students as Academic Children, Not as Means to Their Research Goals

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

A Christian Account of Justice Should Map the Whole Hierarchy of Principles, Not Settle on Rights Alone

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

Jeff Hardin

University of Wisconsin-Madison

How Does Worth Apply to Embryos, and How Will Our Answer Shape Policy on Manipulating Embryos and Embryo-Like Beings?

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

American Bar Foundation

How Can Global Governance Act Justly Toward Weak Actors Such as Peripheral and Fragile States and Peoples?

LawSocial Sciences1 min read

Emily Messer

University of Texas

If Humans Have a Right to Be Treated Justly, What Follows for Animal Rights and Welfare?

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Oxford

With Political Philosophy Split Between Transcendental and Comparative Justice, Where Does a Christian Understanding Fit, If at All?

Social Sciences1 min read

University of British Columbia in Vancouver

Without a Passport, a Stateless Person Can Go a Whole Lifetime with No Recourse to Human Rights

Social Sciences3 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Rights Grounded in Human Worth, or in Our Place in Scripture’s Story, Tie Justice to Flourishing

Social Sciences1 min read

La Trobe University

In Polarized Hong Kong, Growing Dissatisfaction with an Undemocratic Government Makes Just Treatment an Increasingly Fraught Issue

Social SciencesLaw1 min read

Robert Joustra

Redeemer University

Justice Belongs in Every Relationship, but It Need Not Be the Leading Aspect of Every Discipline

Social Sciences1 min read

Yale Divinity School

What Does the Image of God Secure If Theologians Can Justify the Forfeiture of Human Dignity?

Theology1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Does the Split Between First- and Second-Order Justice Imply a Hierarchy, or Let Principles Judge Institutions?

Theology1 min read

University of Edinburgh

Rights Derive from Justice, Not Justice from Rights

Theology1 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Grounding Rights in Excellence, Not Just Dignity, Could Help Make Colombians Agents of Justice Rather Than Simply Claimants for It

Theology2 min read

Bakke Graduate University

How Far Should Christian Academics Press for Justice in the University on the Basis of Their Belief?

Humanities1 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Language Features in Human Rights Charters, and Linguistic Human Rights Reach Even to How Media Portray Groups

Humanities1 min read

Peter Anstey

University of Sydney

The Important Distinction May Not Be First-Order Versus Second-Order but Distributive Versus Retributive Justice

Humanities1 min read

Monash University

Perhaps Worth Is God’s Gift Rather Than Self-Possessed, So That Rights Mean Being Rightly Related to God

Humanities1 min read

University of Leicester

Christian Abolitionists’ Greatest Triumphs Were Not as Unsullied as We Like to Think: Freed Africans Were Often Abused Again

Humanities1 min read

University of Melbourne

Reviewing Our Methods Periodically with Like-Minded Scholars Helps Us Stay Honest; for Samararatne It Has Meant More Modest Claims

Law1 min read

University of Hong Kong

Should Migrants, Non-Nationals and Refugees Enjoy the Same Human Rights as Citizens?

Law1 min read

Benny Tai Yiu Ting (戴耀廷)

University of Hong Kong

Benny Tai’s Social Movement Work, Teaching and Community Activities Are All Civic Education for Hong Kong, Shaping a Legal Culture That Embraces Justice

Law1 min read

University of Oxford

The West Prizes Freedom over Order; Confucian Culture Prizes the Opposite

32 min read

Yale University

Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics Says Not What Justice Is but Rather What It Constitutes

30 min read

Yale Divinity School

The Four Cardinal Virtues Address the Fundamental Challenges of Human Agency: Our Passions, Will, and Practical Intellect

4 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Even with Its Caveats, the WHO’s Highest Attainable Standard of Health Is a High Bar to Call a Right

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Market Discounting Tells Us to Shrug at Costs Our Grandchildren Will Bear, and the Unborn Cannot Object

Social Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Flourishing Is the Goal of the Moral Order

4 min read

Northwestern University

Seen Through Wolterstorff’s Framework, a Market Failure Is Not Just Wasted Money but a Hindrance to First-Order Justice

Law5 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Language as Sociopolitical, a Component of Nationalism

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Does the Hebrew Mishpat Mean the Act of Judgment, as O’Donovan Holds, or the Abstract State Wolterstorff Calls Justice?

Law18 min read

University of Rosario

In Latin America Traditional Knowledge, Such as Ethnobotanical Medicines, Is Not Taken as Valid Knowledge

Humanities3 min read

The Australian National University

The Billiard Ball Model of States Erases Agency and Obscures Who Is Actually Responsible for Justice

Social Sciences12 min read

Universidad Austral

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Strains Everyone: Philosophers Lack Empirical Detail, Scientists the Philosophy, and Shared Terms Shift Meaning

Humanities3 min read

Kyoto University

On the Challenge of Balancing Being Loving and Doing Justice; the Need to Avoid Paternalism in Disaster-Relief

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Samuel Moyn Dates Human Rights to the Twentieth Century, but Wolterstorff Traces a Far Older, Even Patristic Pedigree

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

Israel’s Gleaning Laws Granted the Poor and the Sojourner an Implicit Right to Food

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Restorative Justice as a Second-Order Attempt to Restore First-Order Justice

Social Sciences17 min read

Australian National University

In the Good Samaritan Parable, Wealthy Western States Play the Priest, the Levite and Even the Robbers

Social Sciences7 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

For-Profit Communication Creates Private Goods, Accessible Unequally at a Price

Engineering2 min read

Bakke Graduate University

Is the Gospel Only About Building a Fair and Moral Society, or Does Christian Justice Have a Salvific Purpose?

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

Confucian China Trusted Li, the Community’s Customs and Ceremonies, over Fa, the Ruler’s Enacted Law, to Preserve Harmony

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

Transnational Law Counts Soft Law — Guides, Standards, Codes of Conduct — Alongside the Hard Law of Binding Treaties

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

The Old Testament Often Pairs Mishpat with Righteousness, a Conjunction David Novak Suggests Translating as “Correct Justice”

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Human Rights Accountability in the Pursuit of Justice in International Relations

Social Sciences12 min read

University of Otago

Dignity Talk Pervades Law, Written into Germany’s Constitution and Decisive in US Supreme Court Rulings Though America Never Names It

Law4 min read

University of Melbourne

For Global South Scholars, the Rare Top-Journal Article Rests on Allies Abroad, Often in the North, Not Institutional Support

Law4 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

Participatory Justice Asks Every Member of a Common Good, from Citizen to Academic, to Contribute to the Whole

Theology11 min read

Harvard Medical School

For Patients Who Perpetrate Injustice, a Goal of Therapy May Be Fairness That Honors Dignity and Welcomes Accountability

Medicine1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

OT ‘Righteousness’: A Theological Not Moral Conception

Theology15 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Natural World Has Excellences That Call for Just Recognition and Celebration

EngineeringBiological & Physical Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Colombia’s Pervasive Rights Discourse Has Bred Entitlement and Passivity, with the State Seen as the One to Restore Justice

Theology18 min read

Marcus Aurelius, Marx and Huxley’s Mustapha Mond Each Center Flourishing on One Dimension — Virtue, Circumstances or Pleasure

4 min read

Yale University

OT on Justice and Injustice Concerned with Laws and Social Practices

43 min read

Yale University

Professors Who Flaunt Their Authority and Scramble to Get Ahead Trample the Rights of Students and Colleagues

5 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Murdoch’s Attention Happens Alone in One Mind, Never Asking the Other Whether She Has Been Seen Truly

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

In Competitive Research, Love Means Treating Colleagues with Humility and Grace and Setting Ambition Aside for Others’ Good

Biological & Physical Sciences5 min read

University of Oxford

Love Begins as Attention: Listening, Learning and Wondering Have a Certain Priority over Busy, Energetic Acts, O’Donovan Notes

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

Love’s Judgements, Which O’Donovan Keeps to Law, Might Extend to Science, Literary Reading and Musical Analysis Too

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

In the Molecules of Life, Chemical Principles Used to Perfection Reveal God’s Love for Humanity

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

University of Oxford

For Felski, Critique Is Not the Problem in Literary Studies; Its Hegemony Is, Obscuring Other Ways of Knowing

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Love for Others Centrally Shapes Our Health, So Promoting It May Be a Powerful, Underused Force for Population Health

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

In Hierarchical Universities, Seniors Sometimes Take or Are Given Credit for Juniors’ Work, a Hard Test of Love

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Western Christians Struggle to Tell Authentic Christian Teaching from Their Celtic, Greco-Roman and Germanic Cultural Legacies

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

There Is No Pure Rational Subject Detached from Gender, Race, Culture, Emotion and Body; Knowing Begins Emotionally

Humanities13 min read

University of Queensland

Even Amicable Divorces Involving Children Are Unlikely to Give Everyone a Happy Ending, However Liberating for the Parents

Law10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Self and Others Need Not Compete for Love; Loving Oneself Well Involves Sacrificing Some Desires for a Larger Good

Medicine5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Erōs Is No Lesser Love: Augustine Reappropriated It, and Its Ascent to Wisdom Could Become an Ascent to God

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Loving Bach’s Music Begins with the Artistry, Not the Composer, So Intellectual and Personal Loves Are Not Identical

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

Sellers and Buyers Can Express the Love Command by Asking Whether a Transaction Contributes to the Other’s Flourishing

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Otago

Assumed Consent Placed the Onus on Women to Fight Back or Acquiesce, Correcting Men’s Mistaken Assumptions Themselves

Law8 min read

University of Oxford

The Practice of History Requires the Kind of Directive Attention to the Good of the Other That O’Donovan Identifies as Love

Humanities7 min read

University of Technology Sydney

O’Donovan’s Analysis Resonates Because Love Is Treated Not as Sentiment but as the Organizing Principle of Moral Life

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

God and Neighbour Are Not Equal Claimants, for in Loving the Neighbour We Answer God’s Claim Indirectly

35 min read

Yale University

A Sound Vocation Passes Three Tests: Work You Are Good at, Work You Love, and Work Worth Doing

Theology2 min read

University of Queensland

Most Divorces Have a Leaver and a Left, Bringing Grief and Anger, and Can Bring Disappointment Even with God

Law5 min read

University of Hong Kong

Disability Law Mandates Reasonable Accommodation, but Christian Employers Are Called to Overcome Stigma and Truly Accept Disabled Colleagues

Law2 min read

University of Hong Kong

A Judge’s Privileged Class, Age and Education Can Quietly Shape How They Read Society and Decide Cases

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Bafflement and Amazement Can Become Virtues When They Are Stable Dispositions That Perfect Action and Character

33 min read

O’Donovan Argues Love Seeks the Other’s True Good, So Its Form Must Be Tailored, as Far as Possible, to Their Need

Social Sciences6 min read

American Bar Foundation

Love as Sensitivity Raises the Question: Emotional Response to What? Persons, Beauty, Suffering — and How Do These Relate?

Social Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Might Refusing the Sacraments to a Russian Occupier Be an Act of Love, a Judgment Calling Him to Repent?

Theology3 min read

American Bar Foundation

Haunted by Color Revolutions and the Arab Spring, China’s Communist Party Fears Rights Cases Could Spark a Wildfire

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

Love Resists Tight Definition, Unfolding Through Moments of Admiration, Desire, Purpose and Commitment Across a Life

6 min read

The Australian National University

What Sets Modern Humanitarianism Apart Is Its Aim to Express Global Solidarity by Caring Beyond Local Borders

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Grounding Morality in Divine Command Makes God a Despot Issuing Arbitrary, Inscrutable Fiats

20 min read

University of Melbourne

Central Bankers Balance Competing Economic Welfare Goals Where Technical Models Alone Cannot Resolve the Tension

Business6 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Objections to Character in Public Health Conflate Blaming Individuals with Cultivating Societal Virtue

Public Health7 min read

Adam Smith Was Deeply Ambivalent About Markets and Virtue — His Moral Philosophy Sits in Tension with His Economics

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Literature Is Contested Space — Competing Traditions Disagree on Whether It Should Moralize, Liberate, or Simply Depict

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Top-Down Rule-Based AI Ethics Versus Bottom-Up Learning-Based Approaches Mirror the Deontological Versus Virtue Ethics Debate

Engineering18 min read

University of Hong Kong

The Supervisor-Student Power Imbalance in Science Demands Virtues of Humility and Justice, Especially in Confucian Academic Cultures

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Sydney Business School

Maximizing Shareholder Value Is Good for Society Only Under Assumptions No Real Market Meets

Business5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Proverbs Borrows from Egyptian Wisdom While Grounding Virtue in the Fear of the Lord

Theology11 min read

Yale University

Respect in the Classroom Extends to the Authors We Study, as If Augustine Were Sitting Across the Table

Humanities10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Treatment That Aims at Human Flourishing Requires Cultivating Virtues, Not Just Reducing Symptoms

Medicine6 min read

University of Edinburgh

A Good Act Excites Admiration, but a Good Person Attracts Our Love and Enriches Our Moral Resources

Theology18 min read

University of Otago

Sexual Dignity, Once a Privilege of Landholding Men, Has Been Democratized as Universal, Inherent and Inviolable

Law5 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Might Jewish Sabbath Diligence or the Temperance of Islamic Fasting Quicken or Chasten Christian Cultivation of Virtue?

Theology6 min read

Yale Divinity School

Jesus in the Beatitudes and Paul in Galatians Summon Christians to Lives Marked by Meekness, Justice, Mercy, Love, Joy, and Self-Control

38 min read

University of Bonn

Faith Reaches the Realities Its Formulas Point to, So No One May Be Forced into a Single Theological Language

Education4 min read

University of Hong Kong

Human Law Is Only Ever a Shadow of Divine Law

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

Rulers like Xi Jinping and Viktor Orban Sow Disorder by Seeking to Dismantle the Orders That Limit Their Power

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

AI for Social Good, Lam and Li Hope, Will Embed Immaterial Goods like Justice, Not Just Material Prosperity

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

In Chinese Thought, Order and Chaos Exist in a Mutual, Dynamic Relationship

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Morally Obligatory Acts Can Be Distinguished from Those Which Are Morally Good but Not Obligatory

Humanities18 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Working Together to Preserve One Another’s Health Can Itself Be a Form of Love Within God’s Intent for Creation

Public Health7 min read

University of Navarra

Benedict XVI’s Dilemma: Creative Reason at the Origin of All Things, or Reason as a Product of the Irrational

Humanities6 min read

University of Melbourne

Practical Workshops Helped Young Graduates and Academics Think Through Their Own Discipline from a Christian Perspective

Humanities3 min read

The University of Queensland

For Althusius, the Self-Governing Collegia of Artisans and Merchants Were a Vital Order of Government in Their Own Right

Law3 min read

Harvard Medical School

Psychiatry Often Treats Disordered Accountability, a Virtue That Welcomes Responsibility to Others and for Our Impact on Them

Medicine2 min read

University College London

Communities Allergic to Hypocrisy Make a Christian Leader’s Inevitable Lapses in the Virtues They Profess an Enormous Risk

Law2 min read

Yale University

Human Depictions of Evil in Art Mimic God’s Awareness and Judgment of Evil

Fine & Performing Arts9 min read

Prices Tell Owners Where Resources Are Most Valued Without Anyone Needing to Know Every Supplier or Buyer

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Oxford

Was Ukraine’s Entitlement to Join an Alliance Russia Saw as Hostile Worth a War Killing Countless People?

Public Policy6 min read

University of Hong Kong

Music and Rejoicing Accompany God’s Creating

Fine & Performing Arts3 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Perhaps, like Lewis’s Aslan, Creation May Be Good Without Being Safe, Its Wild Profusion Beyond Human Ordering

Humanities9 min read

University of Cambridge

Unlike Some Greek Rationalists, Boyle and Descartes Saw Natural Laws as God’s Free Choice, Knowable Only by Experiment

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Queensland

Aquinas Extends Prudence to Governing and Obeying Alike, So Good Character Is Needed in Rulers and Subjects

Law7 min read

Brunel University

Postcolonial Concerns Reveal How Digital Technologies and Institutional Structures Can Cultivate or Corrode Virtue

Humanities3 min read

University of Bonn

Can Result-Driven Universities Still Offer a Safe and Brave Space for Slow Research into Complexity?

Education2 min read

Yale University

Alan Jacobs’s Hermeneutics of Love Reads Texts Critically but Charitably, an Aspiration for Often Toxic, Competitive Academia

Fine & Performing Arts3 min read

University of Hong Kong

Should Christians Under Institutional and Political Pressure Stay to Practise Virtue at Great Cost, or Leave?

Law1 min read

American Bar Foundation

Would the UN Security Council Show Courage by Confronting Sexual Abuse by Peacekeepers or Torture by the US?

LawSocial Sciences1 min read

University of Oxford

How Can Universities and Other Institutions Be Structured to Cultivate Rather Than Undermine Virtue?

Social Sciences1 min read

University of Edinburgh

Does the Holy Spirit Infuse Virtues into a Business, or Do Institutions Borrow Them from Their Members?

Theology2 min read

University of Oxford

Sin Hinders Our Attempts to Understand the World, and Particularly Human Nature

Social Sciences2 min read

American Bar Foundation

Might Created Order Justify Rebellion Against an Unjust Capitalist Economy, Not Only Against a Tyrannical State?

Social SciencesLaw1 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Language, Forever Spinning New Words and Nonce Forms, Shows a Profusion No Orderly Description Can Tame

Social Sciences2 min read

University of Hong Kong

Kong Feels a Mission to Defend Legal Norms Reflecting Christian Values, Sensing God’s Justice at Work in Earthly Law

Law1 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Postmodernism Has Had Much Less of an Impact Within the Natural Sciences

Biological & Physical Sciences1 min read

University of Edinburgh

Might an Individual’s Unique Vocation to Suffer or Labour Carry a Moral Duty That Others Do Not Share?

Theology2 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

New Testament Ethics Show That It Is Difficult to Move from the Observed Natural Order to Moral Law

Theology2 min read

University of Melbourne

Discussion Is Essential in Discerning the Good

Humanities4 min read

Auckland University of Technology

A Theology of Flourishing Should Ask Whose Voices Society Stifles and How Disadvantaged Voices Can Be Heard

Social Sciences2 min read

University of Oxford

Deuteronomy’s Vision of the People of God Belongs in Economics’ Debate About Flourishing Social Structures

Social Sciences3 min read

University of Notre Dame

Does Flourishing Require Not a Disregard of Feeling but an Education in Feeling Fitting to Vocation, Circumstance and Providence?

Architecture5 min read

Kyoto University

Disaster Work Requires Virtues in Its Relationships: Humility, Empathy, Listening to Survivors, and Faith in God

Architecture2 min read

University of Oxford

Forgiveness and Reconciliation Lie at the Heart of the Gospel, Yet Seem Absent from Much Secular Writing on Justice

Social Sciences1 min read

University of British Columbia in Vancouver

A World Carved into Territories Frees the Movement of Goods While Labeling and Tightly Managing the People Who Move

Social Sciences3 min read

Auckland University of Technology

From Babel’s Misreading to Peter’s Denigrated Galilean Accent, Scripture Carries Examples of Language Injustice

Humanities1 min read

Monash University

Scripture’s Union of Justice and Mercy May Be One Area Where Christians Can Radically Subvert Secular Debates

Humanities1 min read

University of Leicester

How Can We Keep Thirsting for Justice When, as Augustine Saw, a Fallen World Is Not Perfectible?

Humanities1 min read

University of Oxford

Divinely-Given Values Provide Grounds to Critique Human Orders

32 min read

Yale University

Linguistic Justice Encompasses Far More Than Free Speech Rights

30 min read

Yale Divinity School

Christian Thought Remade the Classical Virtues, Making the Crucified Jesus, Not the Warrior, the Model of Courage

4 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Health Is Both End and Means, So Injustice in Health Spills into the Distribution of Other Goods

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Discount Rates Critically Affect How We Value Preventing Future Climate Catastrophe

Social Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Natural Law, or Created Order to Protestants, Is the Objective Moral Law Paul Finds Written on Gentile Hearts

4 min read

Northwestern University

When Incentives Are Misaligned, Market Participants Often Fail to Render Others Their Due, and Agency Rules Can Compel It

Law5 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Colonization, the Monolingual Impulse of Empire, and Rating of Indigenous Languages

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Medieval Canonists Spoke of Subjective Rights, but Milbank Says the Real Question Is Whether Rights Rest on the Individual Will

Law18 min read

University of Rosario

Indigenous Medicine Deserves a Voice in Health Research, Not Treatment as a Cultural Curiosity or Pharmaceutical Mine

Humanities3 min read

The Australian National University

Who Does Justice? States and Their Citizen

Social Sciences12 min read

Universidad Austral

Justice and Trust Are Important Considerations in Interdisciplinary Research

Humanities3 min read

Kyoto University

Structural Justice, in Martin Luther King’s Image, Means Paving and Lighting the Jericho Road, Not Just Rescuing Those Battered Along It

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Nigel Biggar Finds Medieval Arguments for Natural Rights Wanting, but Wolterstorff Defends a Coherent Concept Grounded in Dignity

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

Land Reform and Cheap Food Were Major Themes of British Politics, in Terms Not Wholly Unfamiliar to the Biblical Writers

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Christian Origins of Restorative Justice Theory and Practice

Social Sciences17 min read

Australian National University

Justice for Refugees Requires Acknowledging Complicity in Creating Their Vulnerability

Social Sciences7 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

For-Profit Satellite Internet Risks Leaving the Rural Poor on the Wrong Side of the Digital Divide

Engineering2 min read

Bakke Graduate University

There Can Be Justice Without Love: One Can Give Others Their Due out of Mere Fear of Punishment

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

China’s Oldest Datable Law Code Records That Its Ancient Kings Did Not Write Down Punishments, Fearing a Litigious Spirit

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

A Transnational Legal Order Is Fully Established Only When Global Standards Reach Down into National Laws and Local Courts

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

The Torah’s Judges May Favor Neither the Poor nor the Great: Justice Begins with Impartiality in Court

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Trends in Human Protection for Civilians in Armed Conflict and Mass Atrocities

Social Sciences12 min read

University of Otago

A Feminist Understanding of Sexual Dignity in Relation to Sexual Violence

Law4 min read

University of Melbourne

When Publishing Shuts Out the Global South, Knowledge Is Captured by Elites Speaking Only to Those with Access

Law4 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

Commutative Justice Governs What Equals Owe Each Other, from a Just Wage to Shared Credit for a Book

Theology11 min read

Harvard Medical School

Many Patients Struggle in Therapy with Justice: Should They Insist on Their Rights or Forgive Repeated Offenses?

Medicine1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Habakkuk Sets Faith Against Injustice, Not Works: Faith Leads to Life, While Injustice Leads to Death

Theology15 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Is Scientists’ Wonder at the Universe Spurious Emotion, or Recognition of a Creator’s Excellence?

EngineeringBiological & Physical Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Government Incapacity to Deliver Second-Order Justice in Colombian Armed Conflict

Theology18 min read

A Plausible Christian Vision Sums Up Flourishing in Paul’s Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Spirit, with Right Living First

4 min read

Yale University

Justice Is the Ground Floor of Shalom: Necessary for Flourishing in Every Dimension, but Not Enough by Itself

43 min read

Yale University

Justice Belongs in Any Discipline That Touches Human Interaction, Which Covers Almost Everything a University Studies

5 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Institutional Relations Are Typically Unchosen, Unequal and Entered Under Need, So They Cannot Borrow the Mutuality of Marriage or Friendship

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Education Is an Act of Love When It Trains Critical Thinking, the Skill That Lets Everyone Discern Truth

Biological & Physical Sciences5 min read

University of Oxford

The Early Church Ordered the Triad Faith, Love, Hope; Paul’s Inversion Lets Love Crown the Others Without Replacing Them

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

Loving Creatures Only for God’s Sake Is Not God’s Love, Since God Loves What God Made for Itself

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

Even in a Secular Classroom, Smith Points Out Chemistry’s Wonder and Prays Students May Look Beyond It to the Creator

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

University of Oxford

Under Critique’s Rule, Felski Observes, Scholars Can Seemingly Justify Loving an Artwork Only by Proving It Too Is Critique

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Parental Warmth in Childhood Predicts Greater Flourishing and Less Depression and Drug Use for Years Afterwards

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

A Liturgy Often Prayed Before Work Asks to Love Learning and to Bear Love, Light and Reconciliation

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Melchizedek’s Mysterious Pre-Covenantal Priesthood Shows That God Was Already at Work Before Abraham

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

The Fact-Value Split Modern Science Assumed Itself Rests on Values like Objectivity and Respect for Evidence

Humanities13 min read

University of Queensland

When Agapē Turns to Its Opposite, Divorce’s Pursuit of Justice Becomes a Contest over Money and Children

Law10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Clinicians Who Know They Have Received Undeserved Love Can Better Reach Difficult Patients in Need of Grace

Medicine5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

D. A. Carson Calls C. S. Lewis’s Sharp Division of the Four Loves a Semantic Fallacy That Ignores How Words Function

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Awe at Creation’s Majesty Is a Love Believers and Unbelievers Share, and It Can Draw the Unbeliever to God

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

Ethical Buyers Must Ask Whether a Purchase Serves Its Makers, and Consumer Boycotts Might Follow Where Workers or Environments Suffer

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Otago

Courts Are Left to Draw a Fine, Perhaps Impossible Line Between Non-Consensual Submission and Reluctant but Willing Consent

Law8 min read

University of Oxford

Historians Can Still Try to Rescue People from the “Enormous Condescension of Posterity” by Refusing to Make Them Cardboard Characters

Humanities7 min read

University of Technology Sydney

For Aristotle and Plato Justice Was the Supreme Organizing Virtue — in Christian Ethics Love Claims That Role

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Neighbour-Love Is Not Uniform — It Responds Differently to the Poor, the Stranger, the Powerful, and the Fellow Citizen

35 min read

University of Queensland

Divorce Is the Recognition That Neither Agape nor Eros Remains — What Follows Is the Question of What Love Still Demands

Law5 min read

University of Hong Kong

India’s Supreme Court Derived a Right to Food from the Right to Life Where the Constitution Was Silent

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

A Discipline’s Internal Goods Draw Scholars In as a Virtuous Exemplar Does, Inviting Admiration and Emulation

33 min read

The ‘Every Man for Himself’ Nature of Market Transactions Is Not Consistent with the Love Command

Social Sciences6 min read

American Bar Foundation

Is Love’s Faithfulness in Scholarship the Long Slog of Labs and Archives That Follows the First Passion?

Social Sciences8 min read

American Bar Foundation

Christian Lawyers Alarm China’s Communist Party Because Their Faith Links Them to Unofficial Churches and Overseas Allies Beyond Its Control

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

Marriage Is Love’s Ideal Image of Identification, but Friendship Offers the More Widely Applicable Pattern

6 min read

The Australian National University

The Four Humanitarian Principles Function as Virtues in Theory but Face Constant Pragmatic Compromise

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Like the Sabbath, Law Was Made for Human Beings and Exists to Serve Their Flourishing

20 min read

University of Melbourne

Leaving Interest Rates Unchanged Is Itself a Decision, Every Bit as Consequential as Raising or Cutting Them

Business6 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Not Every Illness Reflects a Character Failing, Yet Ignoring Character Interventions Neglects a Powerful Tool for Health

Public Health7 min read

Mining the Text of The Wealth of Nations Shows Adam Smith Prized Benevolence, Not Merely Self-Interest

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Literature Inevitably Creates Moral Space, but Preachy Works Written to Teach Virtue Fail, as Even Eliot Recognized

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

AI Trained on How People Actually Behave Is Prone to Flawed Ethics, Since People Self-Justify and Ignore Their Own Laws

Engineering18 min read

University of Hong Kong

Data Fraud Ruins a Scientist’s Reputation, but Abusing Students Can Be Excused as Hard Work and Even Rewarded

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Sydney Business School

From Sub-Prime Lending to Oxycodone, Shareholder Value Maximization Has Served as an Escape Clause for Vicious Corporate Choices

Business5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Proverbs Roots Wisdom in Fear Rather Than Love of the Lord, a Reverence That Forms Courageous Obedience

Theology11 min read

Yale University

Philosophy Lives on Respectful Disagreement, So Students Must Learn That Being Contradicted Is Not a Personal Attack

Humanities10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Beyond the Therapeutic Relationship, a Patient’s Community, Mentors, Exemplars and Faith Can Be Recruited for Full Recovery and Flourishing

Medicine6 min read

University of Edinburgh

Virtue Descriptions Teach Us What to Admire; Virtue Decisions Ask Whether We Can Resolve to Imitate

Theology18 min read

University of Otago

Affirmative Consent Laws Aim to Reshape Societal Norms Around Sexual Communication, Not Just Punish Offenders

Law5 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Without Courage to Tell the Truth, Cowardice Before Power Turns Silence About Sexual Misconduct into Complicity

Theology6 min read

Yale Divinity School

As the Fruit of the Spirit, the Virtues Are Gifts of Grace That Nonetheless Require Human Striving

38 min read

University of Bonn

Rahner’s Theology of Childhood Calls for Approaching Faith with a Child’s Vulnerability and Radical Openness

Education4 min read

University of Hong Kong

Only Some Parts of Divine Moral Law Are Best Realised Through Human Laws

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

Business Failure Leaves a Trail of Woes That Bankruptcy Law Evolved to Address

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

Could a Self-Governing Neural Network, Free of Human Input, Make God’s Emergent Created Order Visible?

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Chinese Bible Translators Never Call God Tian, Perhaps Because Confucian Heaven Is the Cosmos Itself Rather Than a Personal Creator

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Denying First Prize to a Hopeful Contestant Who Was Not the Best Damages Their Good Without Wronging Them

Humanities18 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Pollution and Toxins Damage Health, but Caring for the Environment Is Also Our God-Given Task

Public Health7 min read

University of Navarra

Science Must Accept Nature’s Rational Structure as Given, Benedict XVI Argues, Leaving the Why to Philosophy and Theology

Humanities6 min read

University of Melbourne

Christian Colleges Belong in the Public Square, Where University, Church and Government Once Held Each Other Accountable

Humanities3 min read

The University of Queensland

Whatever One’s Ecclesiology, Aroney Suggests, Something like a Many-Ordered View of Sociality Is Fundamental to Christian Political Theology

Law3 min read

Harvard Medical School

Healthy Accountability Is a Way of Holding Hierarchy and Autonomy Together

Medicine2 min read

University College London

Christian Staff Should Pray for Colleagues in Leadership Who Must Find a Prophetic Voice Under Public Scrutiny

Law2 min read

Yale University

Flannery O’Connor Held That Christian Fiction Must Shock an Audience That Sees Modern Distortions as Natural

Fine & Performing Arts9 min read

Markets Depend on Honesty and Kept Promises, Which Suggests a Moral Underpinning External to the Market System Itself

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Oxford

Russia Has Intervened Abroad Less Than the West Since the Cold War, Chiefly Fearing Hostile Neighbours

Public Policy6 min read

University of Hong Kong

Music Requires the Combination of Both Order and Freedom

Fine & Performing Arts3 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Languages Are in Continuous, Creative Flux and Resist Attempts to Make Them Perfectly Systematic

Humanities9 min read

University of Cambridge

Science Can Never Explain Why an Ordered Universe Exists; It Simply Inherits That Assumption from Theology

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Queensland

Multiplying Rules Backed by Sanctions May Compel Outward Obedience, but Can Burden the Willing Without Restraining the Careless

Law7 min read

Brunel University

Where Injustice Seems to Reproduce Itself in Academia, Coups Interrupted Brazil’s Policies Opening Universities to Low-Income Families

Humanities3 min read

University of Oxford

Why Are Volf et al.’s Flourishing Exemplars Marcus Aurelius, Mond and Marx, Rather Than Aristotle, Bentham or Aquinas?

Social Sciences3 min read

University of Notre Dame

Classical Urbanism and New Urbanism Share the Conviction That Physical Place Shapes Human Character and Community

Architecture5 min read

University of British Columbia in Vancouver

Refugee Claims Ask Vulnerable People to Uncover Their Wounds and Recount Trauma Before Listeners Primed for Suspicion

Social Sciences3 min read

University of Oxford

Non-Human Creatures Have Value Independent of Their Usefulness to Humans, Yet Exist in Some Part to Serve Humans

32 min read

Yale University

Justinian’s Digest on Roman Law & Influence on Christian Tradition

30 min read

Yale Divinity School

Faith, Hope, and Love Are Needed to Act Well in Relationship to God and to Love Enemies — Capacities Pagan Virtue Could Not Supply

4 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

The WHO Constitution Proclaims a Right to Health Without Saying Whether It Is Natural, Positive or Conferred

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Climate Action Is Insurance: Worth Buying Even Under Deep Uncertainty, and Most Needed by Those Who Cannot Self-Insure

Social Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Far from Stifling Freedom, Moral Order Gives Free Choices Their Meaning, as Rules Make Improvisation Possible

4 min read

Northwestern University

Rules Built on Incomplete or Biased Information Can Fail Even When the Agency Has Diagnosed the Market Failure

Law5 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Language Naming, Grading, Identifying, Mapping as Integral to Colonialism

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Anti-Discrimination Laws Protect Against Unjust Treatment Based on Protected Characteristics

Law18 min read

University of Rosario

Traditional Knowledge in Latin America Considered Primitive, Mythical, and Infantile

Humanities3 min read

The Australian National University

The Clash Between Nationalists and Globalists Has Made Where We Draw Moral Boundaries a Live Political Fight

Social Sciences12 min read

Universidad Austral

Trust in a Research Team Starts with Recognizing That Empirical, Bibliographic and Conceptual Work All Contribute Equally

Humanities3 min read

Kyoto University

The Need for Interdisciplinary Activity to Reduce Complex Risks That Lead to Disasters

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

The Levellers Demanded Inalienable Rights and a Written Constitution in the 1640s, Long Before the Enlightenment

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

Ideas of a Just Wage and a Just Price Structured What E. P. Thompson Called a Moral Economy, Rooted in Custom

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Restorative Justice Drew on Indigenous Practice, Feminist Ethics and Neuroscience, and Its Tangled Roots Are a Strength

Social Sciences17 min read

Australian National University

How Wealthy Western States Owe Obligations to Displaced Peoples

Social Sciences7 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Technology Can Be an Arena for Injustices: Hate Speech, Terrorism Communication and Coordinate

Engineering2 min read

Bakke Graduate University

Contra Wolterstorff Love Supersedes Justice in the NT

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

Japan Grafted European Legal Codes onto Older Habits of Honour; Most Disputes Settle Before Court

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

The Charge That Powerful Western States Over-Determined the Liberal International Order Has Some Justice, and Invites Reappraisal

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

“Eye for Eye” Wrote Proportionality into Israel’s Law: Each Punished in a Measure Commensurate with His Own Deeds

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Trends in Human Protection in Situations of Armed Conflict and Past Atrocities

Social Sciences12 min read

University of Otago

Rape May Be Experienced as Degradation, Yet It Can Only Diminish, Never Extinguish, a Victim’s Worth

Law4 min read

University of Melbourne

Unaffordable Books and Paywalls Leave Global South Academics Relying on Overseas Colleagues’ Goodwill for PDFs — Is That Just?

Law4 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

Distributive Justice Obliges Leaders to Weigh Each Person’s Needs and Capacities, Including Those of the Vulnerable and Marginalized

Theology11 min read

Harvard Medical School

COVID-19 Exposed Unequal Access to Mental Health Care, and Just Clinicians Should Work to Widen It

Medicine1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

A Contextual Response to the Reformation Debate of Faith Versus Works and Their Relation to Justice

Theology15 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Francis Bacon’s Charitable Call for Useful Knowledge Arguably Spurred the Experimental Turn That Undergirds Modern Science

EngineeringBiological & Physical Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Rights Grounded in Our Excellence, Not Only Our Dignity, Make Every Rights-Bearer an Agent of Justice for Others

Theology18 min read

Because Flourishing Is a Normative Ideal, Defining It Is a Task the Empirical Sciences Cannot Perform

4 min read

Yale University

Some Rights Come from Law, Promise or Office; Others We Hold Simply by Being the Creatures We Are

43 min read

Yale University

Buildings Shape Lives and Art Is Made by People, So Architecture and the Arts Raise Questions of Justice

5 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Care Demands Presence — Attentive Seeing, Active Listening and Truthful Communication That Make the Other a Co-Deliberator

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Jesus Swapped ‘Might’ for ‘Mind’ in the Great Commandment, Making Deeper Study of Evolution a Duty of Obedience

Biological & Physical Sciences5 min read

University of Oxford

Lewis’s Four Loves Maps Love’s Forms Largely Apart from Faith and Hope, Implicitly Leaving Love as Its Own Foundation

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

With Levinas, Fiddes Suggests the Neighbour’s Claim on Our Love Is Infinite and Cannot Be Graded Beneath God’s

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

Scientists Should Share Their Research Beyond Academia So Others Can See Nature’s Beauty and Look to the Creator

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

University of Oxford

Chaouli Observes That Scholars Dig Moats of History and Ideology Against the Very Artworks Whose Force First Drew Them

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Warm, Disciplined Parenting Is Linked to Better Health Later, and Warmth Appears to Do Most of the Work

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Money, Marketing, Management and Metrics Dominate Today’s Universities, Making Jesus’ Love Commands Radically Counter-Cultural

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

The Magi Came Bearing Gifts, Not Begging, a Sign of How Much Other Cultures Can Enrich the Church

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

Rational Inquiry Depends on Aesthetic Principles like Simplicity and Elegance Rather Than Escaping Them

Humanities13 min read

University of Queensland

Justice May Crown Love Elsewhere, but in the Family Court It Is Typically Pursued Where Love Has Died

Law10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Boundaries on a Therapist’s Time and Access Express Love, Because Fairness, Not Special Treatment, Is a Mark of Love

Medicine5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

For Confucius, Ren Is the Way to Become Truly Human, Realized Through Relationships, Rites and Love of Others

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Psalmist’s Love of God’s Law Echoes the Scholar’s Love of Knowledge, a Love Not Directed at Persons

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

When Market Transactors Are Anonymous, Loving One’s Neighbour Requires Relying on General Truths About What Serves Human Good

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Otago

A Sexual Dignity Framing Treats Sexual Violence as a Repudiation of Personhood, Not Merely a Breach of Autonomy

Law8 min read

University of Oxford

Love Respects Agency, So History Must Reject Both “Great Man” Theories and Accounts in Which Structures Erase People’s Choices

Humanities7 min read

University of Technology Sydney

To Love Rightly Is to Know Rightly — Love and Truth Are Not Competing Categories but Mutually Reinforcing Ways of Grasping Reality

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Love Becomes Practical Only When It Attends to Its Different Shapes: Sympathy, Objectivity, Restraint and Action

35 min read

University of Queensland

Christ’s Command to Love One Another Persists Even After Divorce — There Is a More or Less Christian Way to End a Marriage

Law5 min read

University of Hong Kong

Judges in Common Law Systems Exercise Moral Conscience When Precedent and Statute Leave Room for Competing Interpretations

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Augustine’s Favourite Example of Transformation Through a Text: An Imperial Agent Inflamed by Reading the Life of Antony

33 min read

In the Financial Crisis, Some Major Institutions Sold Products They Privately Knew Would Fail — a Contentious Breach of the Love Command

Social Sciences6 min read

American Bar Foundation

Is O’Donovan Implying That Love in Practical Fields Should Not Eclipse Love in the Arts, Pure Theory and Specialized Research?

Social Sciences8 min read

American Bar Foundation

As Herdt Reads Aquinas, Christ’s Cross Opened Courage, Once Aristotle’s Battlefield Virtue of the Few, to the Humdrum and Ordinary

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

The 20th-Century Opposition of Agape and Eros as Self-Giving Versus Acquisitive Love Was a False Dichotomy That Impoverished Both

6 min read

The Australian National University

Humanitarians Divide Between Relief That Makes Disaster Less Hellish and Development That Seeks to Transform It

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Human Goods Alone Cannot Settle What Is Obligatory, Yet Their Intrinsic Worth Is Still What Generates Obligation

20 min read

University of Melbourne

Setting Interest Rates Is No Job for an Algorithm, Even an AI-Enhanced One: It Demands Human Judgement

Business6 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Character Matters for Everyone, but It Is Especially Critical in Those Who Hold Power, If Society Is to Improve

Public Health7 min read

Hirschman Suggests Industrial Capitalism, Neglected Sociology and the Model of Perfect Competition Led Economics to Forget the Virtues

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Heroes like Tolkien’s Inspire Courage and Loyalty Not Through Lists of Virtues but Through Lives Embodied in Story

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Bottom-Up AI Ethics Lies Open to Interest Groups Who Flood It with Data Biased in Their Favour

Engineering18 min read

University of Hong Kong

The Golden Rule Asks Supervisors Whether They Would Have Flourished as Students in the Labs They Now Run

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Sydney Business School

Finance 101 Should Teach the Limits of Its Models as Plainly as Their Strengths

Business5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Virtue Pursued Apart from Friendship with God Risks Leaving People Wise in Their Own Eyes, Alienated from Life’s Source

Theology11 min read

Yale University

Tolerance in the Philosophy Classroom Means Engaging Other Worldviews Seriously, Not Merely Permitting Them to Exist

Humanities10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Eliciting Patients’ Hopes for Living Well Helps Make the Therapist an Ally Toward a Worthwhile Life, Not Just Relief

Medicine6 min read

University of Edinburgh

Recognising a Vocation as Scholar, Physician or Musician Is a Moral Decision About What We Shall Become

Theology18 min read

University of Otago

If Consent Law Outruns Social Norms, Who Becomes the Sacrificial Lamb in a Criminal System That Already Discriminates?

Law5 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Prudence Lets Seminaries Believe Women and Refuse Victim-Blaming While Still Weighing the Rare False Accusation

Theology6 min read

Yale Divinity School

Being Holy as God Is Holy Means Growing in Hesed, the Faithful Love That Defines the Covenant God

38 min read

University of Bonn

Authentic Religious Education Is an Act of Healing That Restores the Spiritual Flourishing of Person and Community

Education4 min read

University of Hong Kong

The Common Law Presumes Liberty: Citizens May Do What Is Not Forbidden, Government Only What Is Allowed

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

Left Unregulated, Business Failure Too Often Became a Creditors’ Scramble Where the Powerful Elbow Out the Weak

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

AI May Be Able to Reduce Human Bias in Screening for Markers of Alzheimer’s Disease

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Rendering John’s Logos as Dao Works Because Both Name a Living, Relational Order — and Dao Joins Belief to Practice

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Human Goods Alone Cannot Generate Moral Law; Something More Must Explain Why Promoting Some Goods Is Obligatory

Humanities18 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

A Fallen World Can Force Hard Trade-Offs Between Food and Energy Now and an Environment Preserved for the Future

Public Health7 min read

University of Navarra

The Universe Is Ordered Rationally and We Can Understand It Using Reason; This Is Easier to Explain Within Theism Than Naturalism

Humanities6 min read

Harvard Medical School

An Order ‘Out There’ Offers a Corrective to Much Spiritual Care, Which Encourages Making Meaning Rather Than Finding It

Medicine2 min read

Yale University

Art Shows How Deeply Disordered We Are; for O’Connor, Readers Must Be Convinced of Their Disorder Before Any Hope of Redemption

Fine & Performing Arts9 min read

Markets Claim Neutrality, but Their Moral Worth Depends on Whether Traded Goods Promote Flourishing

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Oxford

Propaganda from Both Sides of the Ukraine War Is Making an Even-Handed Understanding of Events Increasingly Difficult

Public Policy6 min read

University of Hong Kong

Music Reveals the Creative Interdependence of Freedom and Order

Fine & Performing Arts3 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Creoles Born from the Cruelty of the Labour and Slave Trades Show Humanity’s Irrepressible Power to Create Languages

Humanities9 min read

University of Cambridge

The Existence of Universal Natural Laws Is Less Plausible in a Naturalistic Framework

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Queensland

Over 54,000 Pages of Australian Legislation in the 1990s Mark What Seems an Age of Unbounded Confidence in Law

Law7 min read

University of Notre Dame

Human Flourishing Is a Normative Teleological Ideal — Architecture Must Serve It Through Places That Foster Genuine Community

Architecture5 min read

University of British Columbia in Vancouver

Working from Home During COVID-19 Deepened the Disadvantage of Students and Faculty with Less Stable Homes

Social Sciences3 min read

University of Oxford

Humans Are at the Top of the Hierarchy of Created Things

32 min read

Yale University

Wolterstorff Correcting His Interpretation of Ulpian

30 min read

Yale Divinity School

Virtues Heal Inner Conflicts and Transform Affections So That We Enjoy Acting Well and Take Pleasure in What Is Good

4 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Who Is Responsible for Rights to Health?

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Historical Consciousness Challenges Simple Narratives of Rights Development

Social Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Against Hobbes, Moral Law and Justice Exist Before Any Social Contract and Still Bind Where States Fail

4 min read

Northwestern University

Well-Funded Interest Groups Can Use Judicial Review to Get Potentially Efficient Rules Vacated over Thin Cost-Benefit Analysis

Law5 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Tanzania Requires Contestants to Speak English Rather Than Swahili to Win

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Religious Groups Can Keep Their Identity Only If They Are Free to Set Membership Standards and Hire Believers

Law18 min read

University of Rosario

Epistemic Injustice as a Failure to Recognize and Enter into Dialogue About Neglected Forms of Traditional Knowledge

Humanities3 min read

The Australian National University

Obligations for States and Christians to Do Justice Beyond Their Borders

Social Sciences12 min read

Universidad Austral

How to Foster Trust and Justice in Research Teams: Mutual Recognition of Competencies and Expertises; Fair Co-Authorship Policies; Transparency and Equity in Funding

Humanities3 min read

Kyoto University

Do Communities Have an Intrinsic Right to Safety from Disaster, and Who Confers It?

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

For the Levellers, Creation in God’s Image Made Every Man and Woman Equal in Dignity and Rights

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

Until the Mid-Twentieth Century, Economic Rights Were Largely Understood as Concrete Needs: Food, Fuel, Housing, Education and Health Care

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Congruence Between Christian Views of Restorative Justice and Indigenous Peoples’ Views

Social Sciences17 min read

Australian National University

Rights Discourse Framed Around Atrocities Sidelines Distributive Justice and Reparations, and Is Not Enough to Rank Competing Crises

Social Sciences7 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Free Basic Internet for Everyone, with Paid Faster Tiers, Could Balance Fairness and Profit as Europe’s Galileo Does

Engineering2 min read

Bakke Graduate University

Contrary to Wolterstorff, Jesus Laid the Foundations of a Theory of Justice, Whose Origin Is the Nature of God

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

Singapore Limits Its Supply of Lawyers, a Justice Official Explained, So the Country Will Not Become Overly Litigious

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

The Liberal International Order Faces Revolt from States like China Chafing at Its Standards

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

Deuteronomy’s Rule That No One Dies for Another’s Sin Shuts Out Any Notion of Inherited Guilt

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Mechanisms for Pursuing Accountability for Systematic Human Rights Violations

Social Sciences12 min read

University of Otago

Sexual Dignity as an Affirmation of an Inalienable Right Derived from Imago Dei

Law4 min read

University of Melbourne

Tensions Between Academic Work and the Pursuit of Justice Through Activism in Societies of the Global South

Law4 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

Global Justice Asks Powerful Nations to Consider How to Draw Poorer Ones into a Common Good of Exchange

Theology11 min read

Harvard Medical School

Clinicians Shaped by a Christian Vision Are Moved by Grace to Give More Than Simple Justice Requires

Medicine1 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Bringing Social-Political Transformation Through the Gospel

Theology15 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Scientific Work Involves Morality and Virtues, Notably Truthfulness

EngineeringBiological & Physical Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

If Collectives Have Rights and Every Right Entails a Duty, Then Collectives Bear Obligations of Justice Too

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Justice in University Life Reaches from the Classroom to Dealings with Funders, Legislatures and Publishers

43 min read

Yale University

From Isaiah to Matthew, Scripture Puts Justice at Its Core, and Its Old Testament Writers Mostly Mean Systemic Justice

5 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Even Competent, Kindly Care Is Paternalistic When It Presumes Another’s Good Rather Than Discovering It with Her

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Against Darwinian Competition, Modern Research Stresses Cooperation, Letting Us Glimpse Love in Action Even in Nature

Biological & Physical Sciences5 min read

University of Oxford

Love Unfolds in Moments Across a Life — Wonder, Care, Devotion, Sacrifice — None of Which Is the One Real Love

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

Calling the Neighbour’s Claim Really God’s Claim Seems to Invite a Slide Away from Seeing the Neighbour as They Are

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

For a Research Student, Love May Mean Adapting to the Team, Accepting a Busy Supervisor’s Limits, and Helping Overloaded Colleagues

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

University of Oxford

Humour Studies Treat Jokes as Interesting Only Insofar as They Expose Social Structures or Pillory Authority

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Marriage, in Many Contexts a Source of Love, Is Linked to Lower Mortality, Less Depression and More Happiness

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Elite American Universities Have Become Business Conglomerates, Treating Students as Customers and Eroding Academic Independence

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Paul Told Lystra That God Had Not Left Himself Without a Witness, and Saw Sincere Devotion in Athens

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

Love Serves the Other for Its Own Sake While Knowledge Extracts from It, So Knowing in Love Unsettles Science

Humanities13 min read

University of Queensland

Donoghue v Stevenson’s Legal Definition of a Neighbour Fits the Ex-Spouse Whom Our Choices Still Affect

Law10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Love Helps Patients Face Truths About Themselves They Could Not Face Alone, and Bad News Must Come Lovingly

Medicine5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Paul Calls the Church past the Law’s Ethnic Boundary Markers to Its Very Spirit, Which Is Love

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

O’Donovan Asks How Scholars Can Love Their Own Field While Focusing Their Love Finally on God and Neighbor

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

Buyers Love as Stewards by Caring for What They Buy and Disposing of It with Respect for Creation

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Otago

Mutuality and Reciprocity in Sexual Relations Go Beyond Consent — They Require the Directive Attention That Love Demands

Law8 min read

University of Oxford

The July Crisis of 1914 Was Made by Decision Makers’ Choices, Not Railway Timetables, as Christopher Clark Shows

Humanities7 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Scholars of Impersonal Subjects Can Still See Their Work as a Vocation: Understanding Reality’s Order and Teaching Others

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Law-as-Love Fulfils Our Moral Nature: It Is Commanded, Yet We Delight in Its Commands

35 min read

University of Queensland

Love After Divorce Means the Higher Earner Must Not Leave the Spouse Who Prioritised Family Bearing the Financial Losses

Law5 min read

University of Hong Kong

Seeing the Law’s Unfairness to the Weak Takes Virtue; Some Judges Miss It, Others Side with the Powerful

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Reconnecting with Whatever First Disclosed the Good to Us Gives Scholars the Power to Resist Careerism

33 min read

Buyers Must Love Too, Refusing Goods Made by Demeaned Workers or Grown at the Environment’s Expense

Social Sciences6 min read

American Bar Foundation

Does Love Have Passive Moods in Scholarship, as When We Receive Ideas at a Conference or Absorb Endless Data?

Social Sciences8 min read

American Bar Foundation

Aquinas’s Concept of Courage as Fortitude in Suffering Fits China’s Rights Lawyers Better Than Aristotle’s Battlefield Model

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

Love Is the Highest Way of Knowing the World — to Love Something Rightly Is to Grasp It as It Truly Is

6 min read

The Australian National University

At Its Best, Humanitarian Work Embodies the Theological Virtues of Hope and Love Toward People Left to Suffer

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Rather Than Human Dignity, Which Seems Too Vague, Obligation Tracks Human Goods as Uniquely Realised in Each Person

20 min read

University of Melbourne

The Public Accepts Interest Rate Decisions out of Trust in the Decision-Makers More Than for Their Technical Correctness

Business6 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Character Development for Health Must Operate at the Societal Level, Not Just as Individual Self-Improvement

Public Health7 min read

Perfect Competition Assumed Anonymous Traders, but Newer Theory Often Makes Knowing Whether to Trust Them Central

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Literature’s Apparent Deficiency — Moral Ambiguity — Is Actually Its Greatest Advantage in Cultivating Virtue

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Virtue Ethics Offers AI Development a Framework Beyond Rigid Rules or Pure Outcomes — Training Systems Toward Character-Like Dispositions

Engineering18 min read

University of Hong Kong

Student Flourishing in Research Requires Leaders Who Prioritize Nurture over Publication Metrics

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Sydney Business School

Behavioral Economics Incorporates Personality Traits and Acquired Skills but Still Stops Short of Virtue as a Category

Business5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

In Confucian Ethics, the Rites of Li Form the Humaneness of Ren, the Fountainhead of Every Virtue

Theology11 min read

Yale University

Intellectual Humility, the Willingness to Admit Error, Is Owed by Everyone in the Classroom, the Professor Included

Humanities10 min read

Harvard Medical School

A Therapist Who Embodies Virtues Transparently Can Foster Trust and Model Character for the Patient

Medicine6 min read

University of Edinburgh

Moral Formation Is Not a Single Settled Decision but an Ongoing Chain of Self-Orienting Choices

Theology18 min read

University of Otago

Law Reform Grounded in Virtue Theory Can Aspire to Shape Character, Not Merely Regulate Behavior

Law5 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Is Middle Eastern Modesty an Expression of Temperance or of the Unjust Repression of Women?

Theology6 min read

Yale Divinity School

Common Grace Means Non-Christians Can Possess Genuine Virtues, Even If Christian Thinkers See Grace as Their Ultimate Source

38 min read

University of Hong Kong

Traditional Confucian Legal Cultures Arguably Often Favour the Community over Individual Rights, Though Many Asian Countries Have Modernised

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

US and English Law Shifted from Liquidating Failed Firms to Reorganizing Them, Aiming to Save Jobs and Value

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

Deciding When Human Input in Alzheimer’s Biomarker Screening Is Noise or Insight Is an Art, Not a Science

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

When Christians Shrink “God So Loved the Cosmos” to Humans, the Chinese Christian Vision of Dao Helps Recover Its Scope

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Holding One Another Accountable Cannot Explain Obligation: On Every Account He Has Seen, Each Exists Without the Other

Humanities18 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Public Health Requires Caring for the Environments in Which People Live, Both Physical and Social

Public Health7 min read

University of Navarra

Denying That Nature Has Objective Order Only Deepens the Mystery of Reason and Strips Morality of Its Grounding

Humanities6 min read

Yale University

Literature of Trauma Reflects the Disordered Nature of Those Experiences, and by So Doing Validates Them

Fine & Performing Arts9 min read

Griffiths Suggested Faith Values Could Replace Mammon’s in Markets, but How That Change Would Happen Is Unclear

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Oxford

How Could the Cold War’s Lessons of Diplomacy and Nuclear Deterrence Be Unlearned So Quickly over Ukraine?

Public Policy6 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Babel Caused the Profusion of Languages

Humanities9 min read

University of Cambridge

Postmodernism’s Impact Within the Natural Sciences: An Alternate Perspective

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Queensland

Having Largely Abandoned Hope in Virtue, Governments Turn to Law First and Last, When They Should Also Nurture Character

Law7 min read

University of British Columbia in Vancouver

Academics Who Step Back to Raise Children Often Pay a Career Cost That Is Itself a Matter of Justice

Social Sciences3 min read

University of Oxford

Human Authority over Creation Is Delegated and Subject to God’s Authority; It Must Not Be Exploitative

32 min read

Yale University

Scripture Offers Testimony About Justice Rather Than a Theory, Yet Taken Together Its Understanding of Justice Is Highly Distinctive

30 min read

Yale Divinity School

From Augustine Through Aquinas and Edwards, Christian Thinkers Insisted Virtues Are a Gift of Divine Grace, Not Mere Human Achievement

4 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Health Is a State of Complete Physical, Mental and Social Well-Being

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Two Ways for Environmental Economics to Remedy the Harms of Climate Change

Social Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

A Moral Law Higher Than Positive Law Can Justify Defying It, as Aquinas and the Reformers Affirmed

4 min read

Northwestern University

An Agency Head Chasing a Political Outcome Can Blind Herself to a Rule’s Other Consequences and Distributive Concerns

Law5 min read

Auckland University of Technology

The Shibboleth of Judges 12 Shows How Iconization Turns an Arbitrary Accent into a Deadly Marker of Identity

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

The Carve-Outs Shielding Religious Freedom from Anti-Discrimination Law Have Shrunk as the Law’s Premises Are Pressed Further

Law18 min read

University of Rosario

Open Ourselves to Truth Claims of Others and Learn Epistemic Humility

Humanities3 min read

The Australian National University

Rich Western States Have Tilted Too Far Toward Insiders, Retreating from Justice on Aid, Migration and Climate

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

Corruption Kills, Through Sins of Both Omission and Commission That Leave the Public Exposed to Disaster

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

The Levellers Saw Defense of the Marginalized as a Biblical Imperative, Reading Scripture as History from Below

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

Erosion of First-Order Justice Approaches to the UK Economy After WWII

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

We Equate Justice with Courts and Prisons, Its Second Order, but Wolterstorff Notes Everyday First-Order Justice Is More Basic

Social Sciences17 min read

Australian National University

How Should Wealthy States Prioritize Aid Among Competing Needs, Threats and Rights Violations

Social Sciences7 min read

Bakke Graduate University

Jesus Placed Justice in the Womb of Love: The Two Love Commandments, Temple Suggests, Carry Its Entire Scope

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

Courts That Protect Rights Are Indispensable, but Successful Eastern Cultures Show Order Need Not Rest on Litigation

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

Why Transnational Legal Orders Warrant Theological Appraisal in Terms of Justice and Rights

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

Micah’s “Do Justice” Addresses Every Person, Not Judges: Justice Is First a Right Order, Then a Court Remedy

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

No One Has Yet Shown That Prosecuting Atrocity Perpetrators Actually Deters the Next Cycle of Violence

Social Sciences12 min read

University of Melbourne

Saying No to Activism May Mean No One Intervenes, Yet Saying Yes Can Carry Real Personal Risk

Law4 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

A Just University Can Award Scholarships for Diversity, and Grants and Honors for Excellence

Theology11 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Matthew’s Righteousness and Luke’s Justice Can Stand Side by Side, and the Canon Is Richer for the Tension

Theology15 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Personal Honesty Was Never Enough, and Science’s Checks on Truthfulness Now Strain Under Complexity and Rich Incentives

EngineeringBiological & Physical Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

When a Collective’s Leaders Fail Their Duties, Its Individual Members Still Carry a Share of Those Obligations

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Most Disciplines Must Treat Justice as Subject Matter, Resisting a Reductionism of Power, Efficiency and Cost

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Time, Authority, Resources and Incentives Are Institutionally Arranged, So Institutions Can Foster or Obstruct the Presence Care Needs

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Science’s Methods Explicitly Exclude the Personal, but Theists Deny That This Justifies Calling Meaning and Purpose Unreal

Biological & Physical Sciences5 min read

University of Oxford

Love Is Objective Before It Is Subjective: A Lovable World Evokes It Before Any Decision to Love

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

O’Donovan’s Order of Love Narrows to Persons, and Nowhere in His Brief Is the Natural World Called Our Neighbour

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

Loving Critical Feedback on a Manuscript Spurs Authors to Do Better Instead of Leaving Them Defeated

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

University of Oxford

Bakhtin and His Critics Alike Read the Medieval Feast of Fools Only for Its Political Potential, or Lack of It

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Being Loved Affirms Our Worth and Meets a Fundamental Need, So Perhaps Unsurprisingly It Is a Source of Health

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Hiring and Promoting Faculty by Citation Counts and Student Evaluations Replaces Expert Judgment with Metrics

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese and Arabic Theologies Have Words for Some Concepts Western Languages Lack, and Can Sharpen Christian Distinctiveness

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

From Galileo’s Trial of Nature to Kant’s Compelling Judge, Modern Science Treats Nature as Something to Dominate

Humanities13 min read

University of Queensland

Denigrating an Ex, Moving the Children Far Away or Withholding Child Support Can Deeply Harm the Other Parent and Children

Law10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Active Love Moves Clinicians Beyond Answering the Consult Question to Engaging the Patient’s Whole Story

Medicine5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucian Ren Builds Love Outward Through Family Bonds, While Pauline Agapē Breaks Social Boundaries by Radical Grace

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Academic Vocation Is No Holier Than Sweeping a Room, So Scholars Should Hold Their Calling with Humility

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

Keeping Markets Fair and Transparent Is Itself Love, While Banning Intrinsically Bad Goods Falls to Rulers

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Otago

Assuming Consent Without Communication Is Blameworthy Even When Correct, Which Is Why Affirmative Consent Should Ground Sexual Offences

Law8 min read

University of Oxford

History’s Loving Promise Is to Denaturalise the Present, Exposing Ideas like Race as Recent, Contingent and Changeable

Humanities7 min read

University of Technology Sydney

As a Scientist Colleague Puts It, Studying Even Impersonal Matter Can Be Worship of God, the Artist Behind the Artwork

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Written on the Heart by the Spirit, the Law of Christ Stops Feeling Opaque and Alien

35 min read

University of Queensland

Divorce Often Splits Church Communities, and Love for a Former Spouse May Demand Magnanimity to Keep the Peace

Law5 min read

University of Hong Kong

Under Authoritarian Regimes, Judges Face Acute Moral Dilemmas When Law Itself Is Biased and Unjust

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

We Can Speak Analogously of Institutional Virtues, but Institutions Lack the Unified Agency That Makes Virtue Possible for Persons

33 min read

Where Market Partners Stay Anonymous, Love Can Target Whole Groups Through Boycotts and Protections for the Vulnerable

Social Sciences6 min read

American Bar Foundation

Might a Scholarly Career Unfold as a Succession of Loves, for Ideas, Students and Collaborators?

Social Sciences8 min read

American Bar Foundation

Under Torture, Rights Lawyers Would Hope for Fortitude That Not Only Faces Danger but Sticks at It Under Pain

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

Ordered Love Conforms to Reality, Loving God as God and the Neighbour as Neighbour, as Augustine Taught

6 min read

The Australian National University

Critics Argue the Humanitarian System Is Oriented More Toward Signalling Virtue Than Practicing It

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

We Must Always Love Our Neighbours Somehow, but Finite Time and Power Keep Positive Obligations General

20 min read

University of Melbourne

Practical Wisdom Is the Central Virtue of Central Banking Because Interest Rate Decisions Require Judgment No Algorithm Can Replicate

Business6 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Good Character Is Intrinsically Valuable and Not Merely Instrumental to Health Outcomes

Public Health7 min read

McCloskey Argues Market Capitalism Cultivated All Seven Principal Virtues — Prudence, Temperance, Justice, Courage, Faith, Hope, and Love

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Works with Conflicted, Immoral and Even Amoral Characters Can Be Among Literature’s Most Edifying for Cultivating Virtue

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Aristotle’s Aretē and Confucian Rén Share the English Word Virtue but Aim at Different Ends: Happiness Versus Harmony

Engineering18 min read

University of Hong Kong

Mentors Can Multiply Virtue or Vice, Because Today’s Students Could One Day Supervise as They Were Supervised

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Sydney Business School

Knowing Clients’ Cognitive Limits Reshapes Fiduciary Duties of Advisors Who Might Be Tempted to Steer Naive Clients Toward Commissions

Business5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucian and Pauline Virtue Ethics Share Structural Parallels Despite Different Theological Foundations

Theology11 min read

Yale University

Philosophy Arises from Bafflement More Than Wonder — the Virtue of Sitting with What We Cannot Yet Understand

Humanities10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Moral Dimensions of Psychiatric Issues like Forgiveness and Trauma Require Explicit Virtue Language

Medicine6 min read

University of Edinburgh

We Are Formed as Continuous Moral Agents by the Correspondence of Our Dispositions and Our Acts

Theology18 min read

University of Otago

Aspirational Law Reform Treats Sexual Violence Legislation as a Vehicle for Cultivating a More Virtuous Society

Law5 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Many African Cultures Prize Chastity, Yet Attention to It Is Also Cited as a Cause of Female Genital Mutilation

Theology6 min read

Yale Divinity School

Even Law-Centered Ethics Depends on Virtue, Since Obeying the Law Well Requires Discernment and Love of It

38 min read

University of Hong Kong

China’s Elder Protection Law Makes Visiting Aging Parents a Legal Duty, Which for Some May Damage Family Harmony

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

Financial Crises Propelled Creation of a Global Bankruptcy Legal Order

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

AI Drug Screening for Alzheimer’s Seeks to Remove Human Bias While Incorporating Expert Knowledge

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucius Democratized the Mandate of Heaven, Much as Paul Democratized the Spiritual Gifts in the Body of Christ

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Divine Command Theory, from Locke to Robert Adams, Does Not Work as an Account of Moral Obligation

Humanities18 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Health Is a State of Complete Physical, Social, Mental and Spiritual Well-Being

Public Health7 min read

University of Navarra

Nature’s Order Recasts Pascal’s Wager as a Bet Not on Personal Gain but on Rationality Itself

Humanities6 min read

Yale University

Trauma Literature Expresses Legitimate Disorder and Pain, Not Mere Postmodern Nihilism

Fine & Performing Arts9 min read

Hayek’s Catallaxy Is a Spontaneous Market Order with No Overarching Ends, Only Individuals Pursuing Their Own

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Oxford

In Wartime Even Academics Tend to See in Black and White, So an Even-Handed View of Ukraine Takes Courage

Public Policy6 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Language Reveals Profusion and Creativity That Defies Systematic Description

Humanities9 min read

The University of Queensland

Augustine Saw That Our Moral Failing Is a Defect of the Will, Rooted in Pride, Not Mere Ignorance

Law7 min read

University of British Columbia in Vancouver

Could Christian Universities Witness Differently by Recognizing Slow, Relational Community Research as Academic Output Rather Than Disincentivizing It?

Social Sciences3 min read

University of Oxford

Monotheism Entails a Rational and Intelligible Cosmos; This Is the Ground for Rational Scientific Enquiry

32 min read

Yale University

The Vulnerable Today Include Refugees and Asylum Seekers Fleeing War

30 min read

Yale Divinity School

Virtues Are Cultivated by Admiring Exemplars, Imagining an Ideal Self, and Practicing Until Good Action Becomes Second Nature

4 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Shared Goals with the Public Health Community

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Carbon Pricing Requires Evaluating Costs That May Not Be Incurred Until Century’s End

Social Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

The Good Is Difficult to Discern Due to the Ways That Sin Warps the Conscience

4 min read

Northwestern University

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Sometimes Had to Regulate Clear Market Failures Without the Data to Quantify Costs and Benefits

Law5 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Punishing Children for Speaking Their Home Language at School Enacts the Belief That Some Tongues Are Inferior

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

On the Christian Grounding of Individual Rights

Law18 min read

The Australian National University

Three Reasons Christians Should Widen Their Justice Horizons

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

Disasters Are More Socio-Economic Than Natural: A Hazard Turns Deadly Through Vulnerability That Human Societies Control

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Rights of Conscience Developed Within Christian Tradition, Not Against It

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

As Social Policies of Compensation and Redistribution to Redress Poverty and Inequality

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Restorative Justice Is Best Defined by Combining Its Values, Its Facilitated Process and the Repair It Aims For

Social Sciences17 min read

Australian National University

Should Christian Scholars in Social Sciences, Business and Management and Health Care Pursue Research Questions That Do Not Speak Explicitly to Issues of Justice and Rights?

Social Sciences7 min read

Bakke Graduate University

Jesus Lived Love-Based Justice, and Paul’s Hymn in 1 Corinthians 13 Supplied the Full Theory of Love

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

A Duty of Agape May Explain at Least as Well as Rights Why Men Must Not Beat Their Loved Ones

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

NWTB’s Isaiah 61 and Luke 4 Suggest Global Legal Orders Must Answer to Uyghurs, Refugees and Weak States

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

Does God Render to Each According to His Right?

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Retributive Accountability Punishes Offenders but Delivers Only Thin Justice for the Societies They Harmed

Social Sciences12 min read

University of Melbourne

Epistemic and Epistemological Justice in the Universities of the Global South

Law4 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

On First Determining What Humans Are Before Evaluating Their Ethical Nature

Theology11 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

OT Understanding of Justice (Mishpat/Krima) and Righteousness (Tzedek/Dikaiousunē)

Theology15 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Reproducibility Crisis Is an Injustice, Failing to Render to Nature the Truth That Is Its Due

EngineeringBiological & Physical Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Its Supreme Court Has Ruled the Crisis Unconstitutional, Yet the Colombian State Admits It Cannot Restore All Displaced People’s Rights

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Reading Isaiah in Nazareth, Jesus Declared Himself the One Inaugurating the Jubilee Year, When Justice Will Reign

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

The Good Samaritan Needed Time, a Beast, Oil and Money, Not Just Compassion

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Reducing Love and Thought to Molecules Is Self-Defeating, Since Materialism Then Leaves No Reason to Trust Any Argument

Biological & Physical Sciences5 min read

University of Oxford

Love Needs Knowledge: A Tutor Who Loves an Idealized Student Fails to Know and Serve the Real One

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

God’s Covenant with All Creation Implies a Reciprocity Beyond Persons, with a Responsiveness Fiddes Traces Even into the Quantum World

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

Good Supervisors Show Love by Listening to the Struggling Team Member Others Might Dismiss as a Problem to Solve

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

University of Oxford

Comedy Has Often Drawn Scholarly Suspicion for Its Supposed Conservatism, Since Typical Endings Restore Order and Settle Everyone into Marriage

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Love Usually Issues in Beneficent Action, and the Evidence Shows Such Action Improves the Health of the Giver

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

McLeish Urges a Contemplative Science Against Disenchantment: Look on Nature with God’s Eyes, Not for Signs of God

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Grace Is Not Unique to Christianity, Whatever C. S. Lewis Reportedly Said, for Several Hindu Traditions Teach It Too

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

Knowing in Love Requires Integrating Prometheus, Who Tears Secrets from Nature, with Orpheus, Who Reads Nature as a Poem

Humanities13 min read

University of Queensland

As in Leviticus 19, Love for an Ex-Spouse May Involve No Feeling, Yet Its Modest Practical Obligations Still Bind

Law10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Fourth Wave Therapies Pursue Growth and Well-Being as Love Does, Much as Religious Practices Help Believers Flourish

Medicine5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Crusader Theology and Co-Opted Confucian Ethics Have Both Justified Domination, and Each Tradition Can Correct the Other’s Abuse

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

From Undergraduate to Project Leader, Each Stage of a Scientific Career Makes a Different Call on Love

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

Income Distribution Is an Unintended Consequence of the Invisible Hand — Individual Love Cannot Fix Systemic Market Outcomes

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Otago

Consent Theory Leaves Dangerous Gaps — Love Fills the Moral Space That Consent Alone Cannot Cover in Sexual Ethics

Law8 min read

University of Oxford

Trying to Learn Lessons from History Is Treacherous, Leaving Armies Ready to Fight the Last War, Not the Next

Humanities7 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Virtue Without Love’s Biographical Nature Collapses into Rule-Following — Love Redeems Virtue from Abstraction

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

The Love-Command Is Both New and Old, Fulfilling in Christ Humanity’s Long and Fumbling Moral History

35 min read

University of Hong Kong

Under Authoritarian Rule, Judges Who Strike Down Government-Backed Developments Need Courage, Since Their Careers May Pay the Price

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

A Company That Seeks Only Shareholder Value Is Bound to Be Vicious, Even When It Stays Within the Law

33 min read

Individual Actions Cannot Love Neighbour Effectively in a Complex Market Economy — Systemic Solutions Are Required

Social Sciences6 min read

American Bar Foundation

In Halliday’s Experience Friendship as Love Goes Unspoken in Pulpit and University; Might It Sustain Scholars When Work Hits a Wall?

Social Sciences8 min read

American Bar Foundation

Courage Is Never Guaranteed, and Under Torture, Poverty and Disgrace Some Rights Lawyers Walked Away

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

Loving Patients as Patients Is Why We Need Professional Norms, Though They Never Exhaust Love’s Demands

6 min read

The Australian National University

Government Debates on Foreign Aid Are Steered by National Interest Far More Than by Recipients’ Wellbeing

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Defending an Innocent Neighbour May Justify Harming the Oppressor, but Only If the Harm Is Unintended and Proportionate

20 min read

University of Melbourne

Humility in the Face of Economic Complexity Improves Both Group Dynamics and Decision Quality

Business6 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Empirical Studies Strongly Support Church Attendance as a Force Shaping Character, Health and Well-Being

Public Health7 min read

Real Players in Economic Experiments Seek Fair Outcomes, a Solidarity McCloskey Says Game-Theory Models Cannot Explain

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

By Leaving Moral Goodness in Suspense, Some Literature Provokes an Urgency to Find Virtue in Our Own Lives

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Virtue Traditions May Not Have Grown in Isolation: Hellenism, Tang Dynasty Christianity and Saharan Trade Show Cultures Interacting

Engineering18 min read

University of Hong Kong

Academic Courage Means Insisting That Publications Are a Means, Not an End, Against Relentless Institutional Pressure

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Sydney Business School

Virtues like Mercy Resist Optimization Models, So Economists Tend to Model the Traits Their Methods Can Handle

Business5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Like Confucius, Catholics and Orthodox See Rites as Forming Virtue; Protestants Do Not Make It the Sacraments’ Primary Purpose

Theology11 min read

Yale University

Many Students Find Philosophical Discourse Strange and Need Patient Persistence Before the Questions Become Their Own

Humanities10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Differing Moral Visions Among Therapists Shape Which Virtues They Prioritize for Patients

Medicine6 min read

University of Edinburgh

The Dying Thief Shows How, by Grace, a Single Decisive Act Can Define a Moral Person for Eternity

Theology18 min read

University of Otago

Affirmative Consent Law May Be Symbolic, but High Thinks Symbolism Might Just, Slowly, Shift a Society’s Moral Posture

Law5 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Cultural Filtering of Virtues Requires Discerning Which Traditions Cultivate Genuine Virtue and Which Harbour Vice

Theology6 min read

Yale Divinity School

Virtues Are Acquired by Admiring Exemplars, Desiring to Be like Them, and Practicing Until Good Action Becomes Enjoyable

38 min read

University of Hong Kong

Filial Virtue Enforced by Fines and Prison May Feel Coercive: Care for Parents Should Spring from Love, Not Fear

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

UNCITRAL Became a Quasi Global Legislature on Insolvency, and IMF and World Bank Lending Conditions Pushed Countries to Reform

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

Ai-Driven Treatment Must Extend Justice and Healing to Vulnerable Dementia Populations

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucian Political Philosophy Advocates Governing by Virtue, Not Force

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Embodied Human Existence Itself Is a Good

Humanities18 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

The Disciplines Must Depend upon Each Other to Achieve Human Flourishing

Public Health7 min read

Yale University

Trauma Seriously Challenges Straightforward Claims That Reality’s Truths Can Be Grasped, So Christians Must Listen Before Asserting Order

Fine & Performing Arts9 min read

The Doctrine of the Fall Sits Awkwardly with Hayek’s Assumption That Markets Guarantee Social Harmony

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Oxford

Intellectual Humility Means Taking Partisan Attacks Seriously, Even When They Are One-Sided and Feel Undeserved

Public Policy6 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Too Much Emphasis on Order Risks Aligning the Church, Again, with a Status Quo at Severe Odds with Jesus

Humanities9 min read

The University of Queensland

Augustine’s Image of Pleasure Enthroned Shows How Virtues Can Become Handmaidens to Selfish Desire

Law7 min read

University of Oxford

Truth Is Not Always Obvious

32 min read

Yale University

Where Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Ethics Never Mention the Divine, the Bible Grounds Justice in a God Who Loves It

30 min read

Yale Divinity School

Scholars Can Attend to How Their Work Contributes to Genuine Human Flourishing Through Law, Economics, Education, and the Arts

4 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Divergent Goals with the Public Health Community

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Three Challenges for Estimating Costs of Climate Change

Social Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Academic Vocation Is About Discerning Reality as Given by God

4 min read

Northwestern University

Powerful Interest Groups Can Hijack Rulemaking by Burying Agencies in Voluminous Technical Comments That May Be One-Sided

Law5 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Denigrating Accents Is Widespread, and Its Saddest Outcome Is How Often Speakers Downgrade Their Own

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Liberal Social Ontologies Tend to Treat Only Individuals as Real, Reducing Families and Churches to Voluntary Associations

Law18 min read

The Australian National University

Global Rules, Typically Written by the Most Powerful States, Are Themselves Often a Source of Injustice Beyond Borders

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

The Crunch Model Rests on a Formula: Disaster Risk Is Hazard Times Vulnerability, Divided by Capacity

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Religious Liberty Emerged from Persecuted Minorities Before Becoming Mainstream

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

Child Poverty Was Conceptualized in Relative Income Terms Requiring Cash Transfer Solutions

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Some Losses, like a Life, Can Never Be Restored, and Restoring the Past Can Entrench Injustice

Social Sciences17 min read

Australian National University

Understanding Power and Efficiency Is Necessary Before Confidently Arguing About Justice

Social Sciences7 min read

Bakke Graduate University

Justice Not Rooted in Love Falls Back on Law and Constitutions, Which Are Subject to Periodic Changes and Amendments

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

Rights-Talk Is Not Very Helpful in the Family Context

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

From Lima to Nairobi, Transnational Law Shapes Local Institutions, So It Must Answer to the Ethics of Justice

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

“Correct Justice” Not Only as a Standard for Humans but Also a Principle God Abides By

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Accountability Is Becoming the Easy Consensus That Lets the International Community Default on the Harder Work of Protection

Social Sciences12 min read

University of Melbourne

Do Academics in the Global North Have Obligations to Repair Injustices Experienced by Their Colleagues in the Global South

Law4 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

Human Dignity, Rooted in Intelligence and Free Will, Means Justice Can Never Be Merely Procedural

Theology11 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

The Bible’s Language of Justice Has Three Registers: Who God Is, His Covenant with People, and the Law

Theology15 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Sabbath Rest for Land, Animals, People, Is a Biblical Principle of Acting Justly

EngineeringBiological & Physical Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Bogotá’s Churches Tend to Welcome Training About the Displaced but Balk at Engaging with Them Personally, Unlike Small-Town Congregations

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Matthew Names Jesus as Isaiah’s Promised One Who Brings Justice to Victory, Countering Claims That Love Replaced Justice

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Willing, Caring Professionals Can Still Fail Patients When Their Institution Leaves No Practical Room for Presence

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Job Sought a Reason and Was Given a Relationship, Learning Humbly That Some Things Lie Beyond Our Complete Understanding

Biological & Physical Sciences5 min read

University of Oxford

Academic Cooperation Needs Love’s Restraint and Patience, as When a Senior Scholar Yields the Floor to a Junior

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

God Can Desire to Be Fulfilled Through Creation Without Losing Aseity, for Self-Existent Need Not Mean Self-Sufficient

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

Grant Committees, Prizes and Science Policy Give Senior Scholars Growing Opportunities to Practise Love

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

University of Oxford

Laughter Can Be Cruel, but Much of Why We Laugh Is Enjoyment, and Laughter Can Be the Fruit of Love

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Regular Volunteers Tend to Be Happier, Healthier and Longer-Lived: Kindness Benefits the Giver, Not Just the Receiver

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

From the Universe’s Vast Scale to Intricate Biomolecular Machinery, the Wonders of Science Should Inspire Love of God

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

A Hindu Debate over Grace Alone Versus Cooperation, Pictured as Kitten and Monkey, Mirrors Calvinists and Arminians

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

The Founders of Modern Science Studied Nature to Know Its Creator, and Kepler Sought God’s Glory, Not His Own

Humanities13 min read

University of Queensland

Does Pursuing My Own Happiness Justify Imposing Inordinate Costs on My Spouse and Children?

Law10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Those Treating Moral Injury Increasingly See a Need to Go Beyond CBT and Address Guilt, Forgiveness and Amends Directly

Medicine5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucius Taught That Rule Flows from a Leader’s Virtue, Not Punishment; Paul Grounds That Leadership in Sacrificial Service

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Augustine’s Hierarchy of Loves Falls Short, Since God Loves Us and Creation for Their Own Sake

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

As with Environmental Waste, There Is an Optimal Welfare Waste: Redistribution Can Be Worth Doing Despite Blunted Incentives

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Otago

O’Donovan’s Theology of Love, with Its Reciprocity and Mutuality, Gives Theological Grounding to Reimagining Sexual Consent in Law

Law8 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Scripture’s Exemplars Are Not Enough: Believers Also Need Christians of Their Own Culture to Imitate

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Love Does Not Replace Law but Interprets It — Every Legal System Needs the Animating Purpose That Only Love Can Supply

35 min read

University of Hong Kong

South Africa’s Grootboom Case Showed How Legal Courage Can Secure Basic Shelter Rights for the Most Vulnerable

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Many Universities Let Prestige and Rankings Shoulder out the Internal Goods of Knowledge and Inquiry They Were Created For

33 min read

Welfare Programmes Can Love the Poor Systematically, but They Risk Dulling Incentives to Work and Breeding Dependency

Social Sciences6 min read

American Bar Foundation

Does O’Donovan’s Eros, Reaching Far Beyond Sex, Extend to the Passions Propelling Our Research and Teaching?

Social Sciences8 min read

American Bar Foundation

Christian Lawyers in China Maintained Their Struggle Even When Colleagues Were Imprisoned, Disbarred, or Disappeared

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

Like the Samaritan’s, a Chance Encounter or a Struggling Rival Can Impose Duties of Love No Rule Foresees

6 min read

The Australian National University

The Oxfam Scandal Revealed How Humanitarian Norms Are Strongest in the Outrage at Their Violation

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Jesus Chose Not to Force a Regime Change Through Violent Revolutionary Action

20 min read

University of Melbourne

Central Bank Independence Demands Courage to Resist Political Pressure for Short-Term Fixes That Damage Long-Term Stability

Business6 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Christian Stewardship of Knowledge Arguably Entails Using Evidence-Based Character Interventions for Society’s Health

Public Health7 min read

For McCloskey, Entrepreneurial Courage Drives Innovation but, Unbalanced by Temperance and Justice, Can Curdle into Pride and Greed

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

O’Connor’s Grotesque Fiction Forces Readers to Confront Grace by Depicting Characters Who Resist It Violently

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Ambrose and Augustine Helped Bring the Platonic Cardinal Virtues into Christianity, Yet Courage Does Not Naturally Map onto Scripture

Engineering18 min read

University of Hong Kong

Research Leaders Who Treat Supervision as Service Rather Than Extraction Enable Students to Flourish as Whole Persons

Biological & Physical Sciences4 min read

The University of Sydney Business School

Household Finance Decisions like Retirement Savings Reveal How Virtue Operates Where Self-Interest Models Fail

Business5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Rites like the Tea Ceremony Also Renew Chinese Christians, Instilling Honor and Love of Neighbor Beyond the Lord’s Supper

Theology11 min read

Yale University

The Virtue of Amazement at the Capacity for Abstract Thought Is Itself a Gateway to Philosophical Inquiry

Humanities10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Therapists Should Abandon Moral Neutrality as a Technique and Openly Seek the Patient’s Good with Candor and Respect

Medicine6 min read

University of Edinburgh

Like the Pharisees in the Gospels, the Hypocrite Shows That Our Acts Can Conceal Our True Character

Theology18 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Institutional Responses to Sexual Misconduct Reveal How Cultural Context Shapes Which Virtues Are Prioritized and Which Are Suppressed

Theology6 min read

Yale Divinity School

Children Must Come to Seek the Approval of Those Whose Goodness They Admire, Not Merely of Those with Power

38 min read

University of Hong Kong

Chinese Families’ Aversion to Court, Where Disputes Bring Public Shame, Makes a Filial Piety Law Hard to Enforce

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

Christian Academics Can Bring a Prophetic Critique to the Orders of Our Day

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

Humility Is Needed When Communicating the Potential of AI Technologies

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Later Dynasties’ Ruler Cults Co-Opted Confucian Ethics into Imperial Ideology, Inverting Confucius’ Demand That Rulers Be Virtuous

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Promoting Another’s Good Becomes Obligatory When Failing to Do So Would Disrespect Their Worth as Persons

Humanities18 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Public Health Might Reasonably Promote the Flourishing Domains Open to Consensus, from Happiness and Meaning to Character and Relationships

Public Health7 min read

Yale University

Living in a Fallen World Requires Us to Live with Disorder and Acknowledge Its Impact on Those Who Have Suffered

Fine & Performing Arts9 min read

Christian Economic Justice Weighs the Processes and Outcomes of Markets, Not Merely Whether Contracts Were Freely Made

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Oxford

Docility Meant Conceding a Factual Error to the Very Colleague Who Had Accused Him of Kremlin Propaganda

Public Policy6 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Jesus’ Ministry Brought Disorder to the Power Structures and Social Status Quo of His Day

Humanities9 min read

The University of Queensland

Desire for Glory Makes Us Seem Good, Not Do Right When No One Is Watching

Law7 min read

University of Oxford

Because Truth Is Difficult to Discern, Academic Work Is Necessarily Communal

32 min read

Yale University

Treat One’s Neighbor Justly out of Love

30 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Who Bears Rights Depends on a Metaphysical Question About Human Personhood

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

From the Stern Review’s 2.2% to Higher Market Rates, Economists Cannot Agree How Much the Future Counts

Social Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Academic Pursuit of Truth Requires Humility, Patience, and Charity Toward Unwelcome Views

4 min read

Northwestern University

Rulemaking Suffers When Agency Staff and Commenters Are Not Transparent About Their Reservations and Uncertainties over a Rule

Law5 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Jesus’ Galilean Accent Likely Drew the Jerusalem Elite’s Contempt for How He Spoke, Not Only What He Said

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

When Individual Rights Always Trump Group Rights, Law Confines Religion to the Private, Choice-Centred Self

Law18 min read

The Australian National University

What Rich States Give in Aid They Can Easily Take Back by Violating Their Negative Duty Not to Harm

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

Safe-Building Manuals Can Merely Treat Symptoms, Leaving Poverty, Racism and Exploitation, the Underlying Causes of Disaster Risk, Untouched

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Proponents of Religious Liberty Grounded Liberty of Conscience in a Duty to Worship God Freely, Which No Magistrate Could Claim

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

Cash Transfers Have Taken the Edge off Britain’s Sharp Rise in Inequality, Driven by Deindustrialisation and Free-Market Policies

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Restorative Justice Is Distinctive Insofar as It Rectifies Past Wrongs, Repairs Present Harms, and Restores Well-Being and Future Safety

Social Sciences17 min read

Australian National University

Before Judging Whether Military Intervention Is Just, Scholars Must Study Whether and When It Actually Saves Lives

Social Sciences7 min read

Bakke Graduate University

Clinging to Rules That Are No Longer Reasonable Sometimes Turns Christian Witness Negative, Making Christians Look Rigid and Closed

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

Relocation Disputes Pit a Separated Parent’s Autonomy Against Children’s Need for Both Parents, and Rights-Talk Does Little to Help

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

Justice in Global Lawmaking for Developing Economies

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

Ezekiel Retires the Sour-Grapes Proverb: Before God Each Soul Answers for Its Own Ways, Not Its Father’s

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Does Substituting Accountability for Protection Deliver Just Outcomes, and What Might the Gospel’s Call to Reconciliation Add?

Social Sciences12 min read

University of Melbourne

Asking Justice Questions from the Global South Could Offer Insights for Rethinking Epistemic Justice on a Global Scale

Law4 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

Justice Is Integrally Related to Mercy

Theology11 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Job Accuses God of Breaking Covenant and So Questions His Sovereignty over Injustice in the Cosmos

Theology15 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Human Experiments Clearly Raise Justice Questions, but Do Animals Have Rights That Should Limit What Science Does to Them?

EngineeringBiological & Physical Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

When the Government Fails the Displaced, Its Failure Becomes the Duty of Every Colombian Whose Rights Were Spared

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Defining Agape as Gratuitous Benevolence Is Chiefly What Led Many Writers to Claim That Love Had Superseded Justice

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

The Patient’s Readmission Was Recorded and Monitored, but the Household Realities That Caused It Were Recorded Nowhere

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Love Cannot Be Proved like a Hypothesis: A Relationship Under Constant Test Never Grows Without Faith and Trust

Biological & Physical Sciences5 min read

University of Oxford

Seen as Communication, the World Is God’s Address to Us, Evoking a Love Fulfilled in Obedience

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

Oddly, O’Donovan Treats Love’s Sovereignty Without the Trinity, Whose Persons Make Room for Creation Within Their Love

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

Critique Matters in a Fallen World, but If Love Is Reality’s Deepest Truth, Scholars Should Foreground It

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Randomized Trials Indicate Forgiveness Interventions Cut Depression and Anxiety: Restoring Love After an Offense Benefits the Forgiver’s Health

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Einstein Called the World’s Comprehensibility a Miracle, but for Christians an Orderly, Rational Creator May Make It Less Mysterious

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Krishna’s Love for His Devotees, So Great He Is Almost Under Their Control, Echoes Jesus’ Grief over Jerusalem

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

Naturalism Is Not a Finding of Science but a Metaphysical Presupposition That Steers Research in One Direction

Humanities13 min read

University of Queensland

Separation Sometimes Protects Children from Harm, but Sometimes Love Means Staying Together for Their Sake

Law10 min read

Harvard Medical School

Secular Clinicians May Accept That Love Requires Being Loved, Yet Question Whether Our Final End Lies in God

Medicine5 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Domination Is Not Confined to Hierarchical Societies: America’s Christian Founding Aspirations Have Long Coexisted with Caste-Like Systems

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Science Tempts Its Practitioners, Perhaps More Than Other Fields, Toward Expert Arrogance and Excessive Competitiveness

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

Redistribution Is an Unusually Effective Policy, Breaking the Tinbergen Rule by Meeting Two Goals with a Single Lever

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Economists Can Call Inflation and Unemployment Unjust; Why Not Take Seriously the Claim That They Are Unloving?

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Situationism Wrongly Treated Moral Norms as Mere Rules of Thumb, Assuming Love Must Override Law

35 min read

University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s Kong Yunming Case Demonstrates How Persistent Legal Advocacy Can Overturn Discriminatory Welfare Residency Requirements

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

China’s Human Rights Lawyers Show How Community Carries the Courage and Prudence That Persecution Demands

33 min read

Instant Global News Makes Distant Sufferers Our Neighbours, and Ignoring Them Because They Are Far Away Is Callous

Social Sciences6 min read

American Bar Foundation

Might ‘Knowing Each Thing for What It Is’ Draw the Struggles over Disciplinary Reductionism into a Framework of Love?

Social Sciences8 min read

American Bar Foundation

With Bloggers and Netizens, Rights Lawyers Often Turned Cases into Public Campaigns, Becoming Spokespersons for China’s Fledgling Publics

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

The Variety of Virtues Follows from the Variety of Goods That Love Encounters — Humility Before Majesty, Courage Before Peril

6 min read

The Australian National University

Moral Rules Mean Little in Aid Work Without Workers Whose Character Lets Them Put Those Rules into Practice

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Like Yeast and Mustard Seed, the Change Jesus Sought Was Organic and Bottom-Up, Closer to Burke Than Lenin

20 min read

University of Melbourne

Temperance Enables Central Bankers to Balance Conflicting Short-Term Objectives While Trusting That Alignment Comes over Time

Business6 min read

For McCloskey the Virtues Come as a Set, and Markets Need Them All Acting Together, None Dominant

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Joy Renames Herself Hulga in What She Considers Her ‘Highest Creative Act’, Yet O’Connor’s Irony Lays Bare Her Egotistical Blindness

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Autonomy, Beneficence, Non-Maleficence, Justice and Explicability Fit AI More Easily, Though They Neglect Data Security

Engineering18 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucian Ren and Pauline Agape Both Ground Virtue in Relational Love Rather Than Individual Achievement

Theology11 min read

Yale University

Friends Report Students Now Texting Through Class, Making Attentiveness a Virtue the Philosophy Classroom Cannot Do Without

Humanities10 min read

Harvard Medical School

A Christian Clinician Should Model Virtue and Explore What Keeps Patients from Finding What They Need in God

Medicine6 min read

University of Edinburgh

Augustine Held That a Law Passed for a Bribe May Still Be Just, However Unjust the Act

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

Puzzling over Who Deserves a Cookie Shows How Children Develop Practical Reasoning by Working Out What Counts as Fair

38 min read

University of Hong Kong

Elder Care in Ageing China Raises the One-Child Policy and Migrant Labour, Issues Statutes Alone May Not Solve

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

Promoting Goods in the Economic Order Means Considering Both Means and Ends

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

Explainable AI Builds Trust by Letting Users See How Algorithms Reason and Where Their Limits Lie

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucians See Sin as Social Wrongdoing and the Fall as Cultural Decay, but Not as Estrangement from Heaven

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Intrinsic Goodness Can Be Distinguished from Instrumental Goods

Humanities18 min read

Yale University

Literature That Bears Witness to Others’ Trauma Lets Us Inhabit Their Order-Defying Suffering and Respond with Compassion

Fine & Performing Arts9 min read

Externalities Must Be Priced So That Decisions Account for Their Full Costs

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Oxford

Academic Virtues Displayed in an International Relations Context

Public Policy6 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Calls for Racial and Gender Equity Are Closer to the Gospel Than Their Opposites

Humanities9 min read

The University of Queensland

Law Compels Conformity and Education Informs the Mind, but Only Religion Can Convert the Soul and Redirect the Will

Law7 min read

University of Oxford

In Postmodernism, the Attempt to Reason or Appeal to Order Can Be Seen as a Veiled Quest for Power

32 min read

Yale University

An Ethics of Care Cannot Supplant Justice, Because Caring for Someone Necessarily Includes Treating Them Justly

30 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

If Mother and Unborn Child Both Have a Right to Health, Family and State Must Work for Both

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Climate Policy Should Pay Particular Attention to Low-Probability Extremes, like Sea-Level Rises Beyond the Predicted Average

Social Sciences13 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Language Standardization Hands Linguistic Capital to the Few and Unavoidably Breeds Inequity, Often for the Many

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Roman Catholic Social Thought on the Principle of Subsidiarity, Resistance of the Duality Between the Individual and the State

Law18 min read

The Australian National University

We Insist Our Obligations Stop at the Border but Still Enjoy the Cheap Goods Made Beyond It

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

Communities on Landslide Slopes and Flood-Prone Shores Face Multiple Hazards, Sometimes on Land Authorities Knew Was Dangerous

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Early Abolitionists like Equiano Condemned the Slave Trade as a Violation of Natural Rights Before the Rights of Man

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

Why Second-Order Economic Justice May Not Work

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Critics Say Restorative Justice Erodes Due Process, but Participants Often Leave Trusting the Legal System More

Social Sciences17 min read

Australian National University

The Obligations of Scholars in the Pursuit of Justice?

Social Sciences7 min read

Bakke Graduate University

True Agape Could Teach the World Justice, Yet Today Eros Is Confused with Agape and Hollywood Defines Love

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

Duty and Obligations Are More Salient Values Than Rights in Parenting Arrangements After Separation

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

Ensuring Participation in Global Lawmaking by Marginal States

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

The Septuagint’s Psalm 62 May Deliberately Echo Plato: God Is the One Who Renders to Each His Due

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Relational Justice Concerns the Quality of Relationships, Not Just Distribution

Social Sciences12 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

When Justice Is Weaponized to Exclude and Destroy Persons, It Creates an Unmerciful and in Effect Unloving Society

Theology11 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

On What Righteousness (Tzedek/Dikaiousune) Mean in the OT: Neither a Legal Concept nor Religious Observance, but a Relationship with God Which Leads to Flourishing

Theology15 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Utilitarianism Can Value Nature Only for Human Benefit, Never for the Intrinsic Worth God Gives It

EngineeringBiological & Physical Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Does One’s Duty to Act Grow with One’s Power and the Violation’s Gravity, and Shrink with the Collective’s Size?

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Nygren’s Either-or Between Agapic Love and Justice Is False: Some Acts Are Both at Once

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Because Responsibility Tracks Decision-Making Authority, Loving Practical Reason Must Constrain How Institutions Themselves Are Designed

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Science Can Explain Mechanisms but Not Meaning, Which We Find in the Love of God Revealed Through Nature

Biological & Physical Sciences5 min read

University of Oxford

Citation Is Not Mere Bureaucratic Convention but a Moral Act, Acknowledging What Was Given and Passing It On by Name

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

In Business, Agape Cares for Every Stakeholder While Eros, the Self-Interest Behind Enterprise, Has Its Proper Place Too

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

Torrance Aims to Treat His Attachment to Comic Texts as a Potential Source of Insight, Not Suspect Sentimentality

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Social Support Protects Health, but the Relationships That Supply It Begin with Love

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Wigner Called Mathematics’ Unreasonable Effectiveness a Gift Beyond Understanding; Christians, Made in God’s Image, Find It Less Mysterious

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Bhakti Singing, Mantra Prayer and Rumi’s Poetry Can Greatly Enrich Churches

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

Naturalism Denies Love and Value Any Cognitive Worth, and Its Adherents Will Find Weinberg’s Pointless Universe Appealing

Humanities13 min read

University of Queensland

The Law May Allow Me to Exact Heavy Costs from My Ex, but Love Asks Whether I Should

Law10 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucianism Sees Evil Primarily as a Social Ill, but Paul’s Recognition of Sin’s Enslaving Power Offers a Sharper Critique

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Eristic Wrangling Misses the Point: Academic Discourse Exists Not to Win Arguments but to Discover and Disseminate Truth

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

Proverbs 30 Warns Against Extreme Wealth and Extreme Poverty Alike, So Christians Have Long Called for Redistribution

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Following Rawls, the Academy May Have Repeated the Greeks’ Error by Crowning Justice, Not Love, as the First Virtue

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Letting Love Take Over Only in Borderline Cases Repeats Situationism’s Mistake of Setting Love Against Law

35 min read

University of Hong Kong

Ethically Driven Anger, Tempered by Love and Self-Control, Is a Virtue; Raw Anger in Advocacy Is a Vice

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Virtuous Individuals Can Exist Within Vicious Organizations, but They Will Chafe at the Institutional Forces Working Against Them

33 min read

Government Aid May Channel Citizens’ Compassion Abroad More Effectively, Its Advocates Argue, Yet Official Aid Risks Capture by Recipient Elites

Social Sciences6 min read

American Bar Foundation

Is O’Donovan Saying Each Relationship, from Teacher and Student to Author and Referee, Calls for Its Own Form of Love?

Social Sciences8 min read

American Bar Foundation

After the 709 Crackdown, Wives like Wang Qiaoling and Li Wenzu Became the New Face of Courage

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

Humility When Courage Is Needed Is Virtue at the Wrong Time, and Habit Can Blind Us to Love’s Other Demands

6 min read

The Australian National University

Facing Choices Between Lesser Evils, Humanitarian Workers Need Stable Virtues to Survive Moral Ambiguity

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Aligning Christianity with Political Radicalism Follows the Academy’s Progressive Tide, Which Should Make Christians Suspicious of It

20 min read

University of Melbourne

Jeremiah’s Call to Seek the City’s Peace Helps Harper Look Beyond Price Stability and Full Employment to the People’s Welfare

Business6 min read

McCloskey Says Neoclassical Economics Reduces Solidarity Values to Mere Tastes, but Real Markets Run on Prudence and Solidarity Together

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Hulga’s Comfortable Nihilism Collapses When a Con Man Who Truly Believes in Nothing Steals Her Leg

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Can Virtues Emerge from Big Data Trained Across Diverse Cultures, or Must They Be Explicitly Designed In?

Engineering18 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Wisdom and Virtue Together Call Academics to Pursue God Through Cross-Disciplinary and Cross-Cultural Research

Theology11 min read

Yale University

Scholarly Virtues Apply Beyond the Classroom to Conferences, Peer Review, and Every Setting Where Scholars Interact

Humanities10 min read

University of Edinburgh

We Cannot See the Dispositions Behind Political Acts, Which May Be Why We Project Caricatures of Politicians’ Motives

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

Character Development Extends Across the Entire Lifespan — Acting Well Strengthens Virtue, Acting Poorly Undermines It

38 min read

University of Hong Kong

Donoghue v Stevenson Wrote Jesus’ Love of Neighbour into Negligence Law as a Duty to Take Reasonable Care

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

A Christian Ethics of Bankruptcy Must Weigh Forgiveness Against Fairness and Economic Power Against Vulnerability

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

Bias in AI Is Unavoidable, but the Effort to Remove It Reflects a Human Search for Perfect Natural Order

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Paul the Zealous Persecutor Shows How Dangerous Monotheistic Piety Without Neighbor-Love Can Be — a Lesson Confucian Ethics Reinforces

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Almost All Modern Theories Value Art Only as a Means to Some Experience: Emotion, Knowledge or Aesthetic Experience

Humanities18 min read

Yale University

The Acknowledgment of Disorder Is a Prelude to the Return of Order

Fine & Performing Arts9 min read

Some Chicago Economists Advocate Markets for Adoptive Babies, and Menzies Argues the Sexual Revolution Has Made Sexual Partners Alienable

Social Sciences10 min read

Auckland University of Technology

The Structure-Agency Continuum Describes the Tension Between Order and Freedom in Modernism and Postmodernism

Humanities9 min read

University of Oxford

Truth Is Not Obvious; Our Perception of Truth Is Distorted by Sin

32 min read

Yale University

OT Writers Connect Justice with Shalom

30 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Individual Rights Versus the Common Good in Public Health

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Pricing Carbon Often Beats Rationing by Fiat Because It Tends to Keep Ambulance Miles and Cut Careless Supermarket Trips

Social Sciences13 min read

Auckland University of Technology

African Americans Face Linguistic Disadvantage as a Routine Companion of Economic Disadvantage

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

On the Principle of Subsidiarity and Personalism and Sphere Sovereignty, Giving Rise to Basic Rights

Law18 min read

The Australian National University

A Virus That Ignores Borders Demands a Supranational Response, Yet States Looked Almost Entirely to Themselves

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

Missing Steel and Salty Sea-Sand in Concrete Show How Corrupt or Ignorant Building Turns Hazards Deadly

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Wilberforce’s Abolitionism Rested Less on Rights Talk Than on the Moral Dignity of Every Rational, Immortal Person

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

Recent Scholarship Warns That Market Outcomes Come to Look Natural to Beneficiaries Who Cannot See How Policy Shapes Them

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Victims Often Experience Malice as a Message That They Do Not Matter, a Wrong Only Restored Respect Can Remedy

Social Sciences17 min read

Australian National University

On the Importance of History to Argue for Policy Choices Based on Their Historical Research

Social Sciences7 min read

Bakke Graduate University

Love Redeems Because It Is Sacrificial and Selfless, Drawing People Together and Opening Space for the Kingdom

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

Parental Obligations to Children Trump Rights to Personal Fulfilment

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

Christian Ideals of Participation Become Testable Questions About Who Sits at the Lawmaking Table and Who Is Heard

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

On Just Mercy as an Expression of God’s Love

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Restorative Justice and Reconciliation in International Responses to Global Injustices

Social Sciences12 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

Justice Without Mercy Becomes Intolerable; Mercy Presupposes and Qualifies Justice

Theology11 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Justice Is God’s Concern for the Shalom of All

Theology15 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

On Humans’ Duty of Care and Stewardship Towards Creation Because of Its Intrinsic Worth

EngineeringBiological & Physical Sciences8 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Paternalistic Benevolence Can Revictimize the Vulnerable; Christian Love Must Care About People, Not Merely Care for Them

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Love Does Not Supersede Justice but Incorporates Justice

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Institutional Love Cannot Be Measured by Adding Up Members’ Loving Conduct; Respondents Must Witness to the Arrangement Itself

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Peer Review at Its Best Is Love, Helping a Communication Grow Truer to Its Object Before It Circulates

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

Love as Wisdom Moves from Careful Observation of the World into Participation in God’s Own Wisdom

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

Generous Reading Seeks Truth to Embrace Rather Than Problems to Refute, Reversing the Academy’s Habits of Mind

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

As Trust Falls and Polarization Rises, Loving Neighbours and Even Opponents Could Help Societies Find Common Ground

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Scientists Who Say One Thing in Private and Another in Grant Applications and Press Releases Lack Integrity

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Being in Christ, with the Spirit Dwelling Within, Means We Are Distinct from God but Never Wholly Separate

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

Following Wolterstorff, Could Love Serve Christian Scholars as a Control Belief for Judging Which Theories Are Acceptable?

Humanities13 min read

University of Queensland

Divorce Often Divides Churches, and Love for a Former Spouse May Require Magnanimity Not to Promote That Division

Law10 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Early Confucian Wu-Wei Prized Spontaneous, Effortless Virtue, a Core Later Largely Diminished by Rigid Institutional Formalism

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Science Resists the Doctrine That Truth Claims Are Mere Power Plays, Perhaps One Reason Christians Are Most Represented There

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

Loving Neighbours in an Interconnected World Economy Magnifies Every Problem of Anonymity and Distance

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Well-Run Markets and Wisely Used Discoveries Are Better Described as Love at a Distance Than as Justice

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Love Is No Mere Motive Behind Law-Abiding Action; as Law’s Interpreter It Gives Concrete Guidance

35 min read

University of Hong Kong

Christian Advocates Stay Contemplative, Continually Examining Their Motives, Strategies and Relationships While Leaving Final Justice to God

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Whether to Stay in a Corrupt Institution or Leave Takes Practical Wisdom, and Leaving May Be the Courageous Choice

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Would O’Donovan Extend the Health Professional’s Move Beyond Rules to ‘a Kindly Face’ into a Love Dimension for Every Academic Role?

Social Sciences8 min read

American Bar Foundation

Lawyers Who Leave Lucrative Commercial Practice for Rights Defense Answer a Deeper Calling to Protect the Weak

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

Justice Does Not Follow the Pattern of the Other Virtues Under Love — Between Love and Justice There Is a Special and Unresolved Tension

6 min read

The Australian National University

Professionalization of Humanitarian Work Risks Replacing Personal Integrity of Character with Compliance-Driven Ethics

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Masters Who Treat Slaves Fraternally, as Paul Urged Philemon, Make Slavery as Property Impossible to Sustain

20 min read

The Virtues Are Undeniably Present in Markets, but McCloskey Does Not Conclusively Show That Markets Are What Produce Them

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

O’Connor’s ‘Good Country People’ Collapses Our Easy Assumption That We Are Good People into a Cliché

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Emergence in Large Language Models May Be a Mirage, Yet Machine Learning Can Still Distil Behaviours from Observed Data

Engineering18 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Faith and Culture Are Not Rivals to Choose Between: Culture Speaks to Faith as Faith Speaks to Culture

Theology11 min read

Yale University

Professors Must Actively Respect Students’ Intelligence Despite the Inherent Authority Imbalance of the Classroom

Humanities10 min read

University of Edinburgh

Political and Corporate Institutions Can Embody a Kind of Moral Form, but Whether They Possess Virtue Remains Deeply Contested

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

Generosity at Home Need Not Mean Generosity Outside It, So Integrity Across Life’s Domains Is an Adult Challenge

38 min read

University of Hong Kong

Tort Law Asks Only That We Do No Harm and Compensate Losses, Far Below God’s Command to Love with Grace

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

Law on the Books and Law in Action Invariably Diverge, and Even Good Laws Don’t Always Yield Good Outcomes

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

AI Research on Alzheimer’s Patients Must Safeguard Individual Privacy Even While It Could Benefit Many Sufferers

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucian Ritual and Music Can Help Chinese Christians Build a Christian Order of Worship, Social Life and Justice

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Donald Hall’s Casual “It Made It a Better Poem” Exposed What Artistic Instrumentalism Cannot Account For

Humanities18 min read

Ways in Which Markets Tend Towards Moral Disorder or Injustice

Social Sciences10 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Calling Functional Hierarchy Unobjectionable If Superiors Act Fraternally Risks Echoing the Slavery Defenders Wilberforce Fought

Humanities9 min read

University of Oxford

Against Naturalism, Matter and (Moral) Values Are Both Inherent in Creation

32 min read

Yale University

Justice Is Intrinsic to Understanding of the Kingdom of God in NT

30 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Can Manipulative Public Health Messages Be Justified When Other Influences Already Shape People’s Preferences Without Their Knowing?

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Fair Employment Practices Require More Than Market Mechanisms Alone

Social Sciences13 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Linguistic Snobbery That Equates a Common Accent with Coarse Thinking Guards the Gates of the ‘Best People’

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Christian Thought Produced a Complex Space of Guilds, Churches and Universities, Against Liberalism’s Bare Individual and State

Law18 min read

The Australian National University

Vaccine Nationalism Is Ultimately Self-Defeating, and Bollyky and Brown Warn It Will Prolong the Pandemic

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

Corruption in Guatemala Causes Earthquake Deaths Through Unsafe Construction

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Frederick Douglass Claimed God-Given Rights for the Enslaved, and Rights for Women on Their Natural Equality with Men

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

Redistribution Needs Constant Government Activity, Recent Scholarship Argues: Turn Off the Transfer Machine and Wealth Is Likely to Concentrate

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Criminal Trials Leave Victims Passive Spectators of Their Own Suffering; Restorative Justice Aims to Hand Power Back to Them

Social Sciences17 min read

Bakke Graduate University

Justice Is a Means, Not an End: Its Purpose Is to Show God’s Love and Invite Reconciliation

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

Parenting After Separation Is Not Musical Chairs, So Courts Must Ask Whether a Father Can Move Too

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

Fostering Creativity in Transnational Legal Orders

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

“Correct Justice” and the Pauline Dilemma: The Relationship Between Judgment, Grace and Works

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

How to Prevent Mass Atrocity Crimes — the Asia-Pacific Study Group of Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes

Social Sciences12 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

Christians Need Not Be Reticent About God’s Justice Revealed in Christ, Even in Today’s University

Theology11 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Justice Applied to the Academy: The Rules of Engagement: The Need for Humility, Constructive Engagement, and Owing the Debt of Love to Others

Theology15 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Because Justice Is Part of Love, All People May Have a Genuine Right to Be Loved by Christians

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Leviticus Folds Impartial Judgment into the Command to Love Your Neighbor, Making Just Judging an Act of Love

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Hospital Staffing Ratios Measure Inputs, Yet Two Wards with Identical Inputs Can Differ Entirely in Whether Anyone Is Present

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Academic Disciplines Span Generations, Receiving Testimony from Predecessors and Passing It to Students Not Yet Born

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

Disciplined Observation in Science or Art Draws the Observer Deeper into Divine Love, Even When Unrecognised

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

For Paul, Thinking Through the Eyes of Love Is Not Naive but Adult, a Way to See the World Clearly

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Love of Enemy Does Not Dismiss Disagreement but Can Free Us from Hatred and Break Cycles of Violence

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Truthfulness Is at Stake as Concerns About Reproducibility Spread Beyond Psychology and Medicine into Condensed Matter Physics

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Seeing Ourselves as Separate from God and Creation Has Bred a Tragic Misreading of Dominion over the Earth

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

Taking Love as an Epistemic Criterion Opens Inquiry Humbly to Reality’s Inexhaustible Richness

Humanities13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

True Love Cannot Be Forced or Performed; It Flows from Sincerity by the Spirit, Not from Hypocrisy’s Mask

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Love in the Academy Balances Discovery of the New with Dissemination of Settled Knowledge in Classrooms and Textbooks

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

Market-Mediated Love Requires Wisdom — Discerning How to Express Love Through the Structures of a Complex Economy

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Enthroning Justice over Love May Be One Reason Scholars Feel More Embarrassed Quoting Jesus in a Seminar Than Plato

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

The Life of the Lover Contains Many States — Agitation and Calm, Volition and Recognition, Instinct and Reflection

35 min read

University of Hong Kong

Fear and Love Compete as Motivations in a Legal Scholar’s Pursuit of Justice for the Vulnerable

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Self-Knowledge Is Key: Whoever Overrates Their Own Courage and Wisdom Is Likely to Attempt What They Cannot Do

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Faith Fortifies Courage by Reframing Suffering as Meaningful, Sustaining Resistance That Reason Alone Cannot Explain

Law20 min read

University of Edinburgh

Are Political Institutions Bound by Absolute Norms of Justice, or Is Christian Love Free to Refashion Them?

6 min read

The Australian National University

After the Aceh Tsunami, Aid Workers Facing Theft of Supplies Needed Practical Wisdom More Than Policies

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Moral Order May Not Compel Belief in God, Yet a Heartless Universe Yielding Intrinsic Goods Seems Odd

20 min read

Reclaiming Virtue Ethics for Economics Means Asking What Markets Are Actually for, Not Just Whether They Are Efficient

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

The Name Joy-Hulga-Hopewell Puts Ugliness at the Heart of Joy and Hope, Haunting Any Presumption That Virtue Is Easily Won

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Will Values Imposed on AI Stand the Test of Time, When Schaeffer and Coop See Humanist Values Drift Each Generation?

Engineering18 min read

Yale University

Lise Meitner’s Erased Contribution to Nuclear Physics Shows How Male Scholars Have Denied Women Their Due Credit

Humanities10 min read

University of Edinburgh

Through Policy, Which Works like a Person’s Intention, Even a State Can Have Something like Good Intentions

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

Flawed Biblical Exemplars like the Fearful Peter Let Us See Ourselves and Renew Our Aspiration to Virtue

38 min read

University of Hong Kong

Moral Judgment, Biggar Says, Is Creative and Compatible with Freedom, So Christians Should Reimagine Human Orders Toward Divine Morality

Law9 min read

American Bar Foundation

Christian Legal Scholars Are Called to Ask Which Lawmakers and Processes Let Evidence, Not Ignorance, Drive Policy

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

Whether or Not Machines Should Be Given Moral Responsibility, Humans Must Be Able to Reclaim Ethical Control in Emergencies

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

In Ancient China, Pentatonic Music Echoed Nature’s Own Order, and Harmony Itself Was Understood as a Cosmic Ordering and Union

Theology15 min read

Yale University

An Ideal Critic Needs the Right Traits, Ideally Used in Ideal Conditions — but Is There Any End to the List?

Humanities18 min read

Rising Wages Make Non-Market Time Costly and Can Starve Family, Environment and Church of the Hours They Need

Social Sciences10 min read

Auckland University of Technology

COVID Lockdowns Showed That Those Jobs at the Bottom of the Social Hierarchy Are Often the Most Essential

Humanities9 min read

University of Oxford

Creational Goods Promote Human Flourishing; Moral Laws Defend These Goods

32 min read

Yale University

Justice & Injustice in Bible Almost Always Means Social and Systemic Justice

30 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Individuals Can Do Only So Much for Others’ Health; Health for All Needs Institutions, and Even They May Not Suffice

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Future Generations Have as Much Right as We Do to an Undespoiled Environment, and Discounting Cannot Diminish It

Social Sciences13 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Vernaculars Defiantly Resist the Standard and Are the Usual Home of Linguistic Creativity and Innovation

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Christ’s Command to Render to Caesar Rooted the Church-State Duality That Helped Give Communities Freedom to Govern Themselves

Law18 min read

The Australian National University

Vaccine Allocation Disparities Reveal Inequities in Global Health Systems

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

Governments Underpay Officials Expecting Bribes, and Ambraseys and Bilham Tie 83% of Thirty Years’ Earthquake Deaths to Corruption

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Christians and Secularists Alike Are Prone to Forget That Human Rights Grew from Christian Roots

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Cambridge

The UN’s 0.7% Aid Target Looks Arbitrary Because It Is, Yet a First-Order Alternative Is Hard to Design

HumanitiesPublic Policy11 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Restoring a Relationship to Justice Need Not Mean Reconciliation or Warmth, but It Does Require Mutual Dignity and at Least Minimal Trust

Social Sciences17 min read

Bakke Graduate University

Philosophers Offer Only a Partial Picture of Justice, Because Justice Rests on God’s Nature, Which Is Love

Humanities6 min read

University of Queensland

Moving Children Far from a Parent They Are Close to Harms Them, Research on 70 Families Shows

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

Recognizing the Excellences of Weak States Recasts Their Delegates as Gifted Lawmakers, Not Mere Law-Takers

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

If No One Is Justified by Works of the Law, How Can Paul Say Its Doers Will Be?

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Hate Speech Thrives Where Past Atrocities Go Unaddressed and Old Grievances Are Turned into Dehumanising Narratives

Social Sciences12 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

The Christian Idea of Atonement Gave Birth to the Medieval University’s Hope for a Universal Culture of Learning

Theology11 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Scholars Can Distil Biblical Mega Principles of Justice from Sound Exegesis and Bring Them to Bear on Their Disciplines

Theology15 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Fear of “Salvation by Works” Has Led Evangelicals in the Americas to Treat Social Action as Supererogatory Piety, Merely Optional

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Love Understood as Care, Not Mere Benevolence, Seeks the Other’s Good — Including Being Treated Justly

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Presence Cannot Depend on Occasional Heroic Generosity; Institutions Must Make It a Stable, Non-Paternalistic Condition of Care

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Citation Cartels and Careerism Share One Root: Refusing to Receive Knowledge and Pass It On in Love

Theology17 min read

University of Oxford

Augustine’s Order of Love Rightly Sees God Loved in All Things, Yet Loves Creatures Only for God’s Sake

Theology14 min read

University of Oxford

Where Critique Finds Evidence of a Fallen World, Reading for Grace Looks for God’s Healing Spirit Breaking In

Theology9 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Forgiveness Need Not Abandon Justice: One Can Seek a Just Outcome While Still Wishing the Offender Well

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Too Many Scientific Papers Bury Their Main Result and Weaknesses, Failing Peers Who Must Labor to Understand Them

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Factory Farming’s Cruelty Finds No Warrant in Scripture and Repels Many Spiritual Non-Christians Appalled by Christian Indifference

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

For Horkheimer and Adorno, Quantifying the World’s Qualities Lost Meaning and Paved the Way for Science as Control

Humanities13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Non-Coercive Love Is Not Passive: Indifference, Condemned as Lukewarm Faith, Is Love’s True Opposite

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Outside Science, Novelty Has Thinner Justification, and Online Innovations Seem to Breed Fleeting Fashions over Agreed Descriptions

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

Like Old Testament Law, Love at a Distance Can Revere Anonymous Strangers Simply as Bearers of God’s Image

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Technology Sydney

When Scholars Cease to Love Their Subjects, Disciplines Become Sterile Technical Exercises

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Poetry and Fiction Have Often Taught Love Better Than Philosophy, Because They Resist Fixing on One Moment as Real Love

35 min read

University of Hong Kong

Publication Quotas Can Push Scholars from Research for the Social Good Toward Fundable Topics That Suit Top Journals

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

If, as Studies Suggest, Virtues Are Often Local and Context-Dependent, Churches Gain Significance as Their Robust Social Support

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Shared Meals in Beijing, a Nationwide Online Network and Joint Case Teams Knit Christian Lawyers into Solidarity

Law20 min read

The Australian National University

The Fast Pace and High Turnover of Aid Work, Moore Suspects, Breed Impatience, Arrogance and Overrated Expertise

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

If the Universe Exists Because of Blind Chance, the Human Condition Is Probably Amoral

20 min read

For Bruni and Sugden, the Market’s Telos Is Mutually Beneficial Voluntary Exchange, and Traders Know Mutual Gain Moves Them

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

O’Connor’s Irony Works Indirectly, Drawing Readers to Scrutinize Their Own Presumptions of Goodness Rather Than Preaching at Them

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Love in AI Means Not Affirmation or Tolerance but Other-Centredness: Protecting Users and the People Whose Data Is Used

Engineering18 min read

Yale University

Intellectual Humility Means Acknowledging That Some of One’s Own Beliefs Are Mistaken — the Opposite of Intellectual Arrogance

Humanities10 min read

University of Edinburgh

Banks Acting as Political Censors Show the Confusion, Sometimes Comic, When Institutions Pursue Goods Other Than Their Own

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

Communities, Institutions, and Personal Relationships Play a Critical Role in Enabling Persons to Develop and Sustain Virtues

38 min read

American Bar Foundation

Legal Change Comes Both from Disjunctive Shocks like Oil Spills and from the Constitutive Disorder of Everyday Adaptation

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

AI for Social Good Must Help the Public Make Sense of Its Results, So People Can Decide for Themselves

Engineering13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Music Can Help Foster Social Virtues

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Ideal Critic Theory Is Circular, Presupposing the Very Judgments of Artistic Worth It Claims to Explain

Humanities18 min read

Markets Can Make Available Things That Aid Human Flourishing, but They Have No Solution to Disordered Desires

Social Sciences10 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Jesus Came to Invert Social Hierarchies

Humanities9 min read

University of Oxford

This Theory Explains Why People Are Willing to Sacrifice for a Higher Moral Good

32 min read

Yale University

Biblical Emphasis on the Quartet of Vulnerable: Widows, Orphans, Sojourners, Impoverished

30 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Health as Wholeness Requires Love

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Thin Doctrine of Rights for Future Generations in Economic Analysis of Climate Change

Social Sciences13 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Babel Was a Blessing, Not a Curse: God’s Judgment Launched the Rich Diversity of Human Languages

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Pope Gelasius’ Doctrine of Two Swords Separated Priestly Authority from Royal Power After Christ, Citing Human Weakness

Law18 min read

The Australian National University

Beaton and Colleagues Argue That When Existing Global Injustices Enable Crisis Nationalism, the Case for Partiality Is Morally Suspect

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

Governments and Landowners Who Hide Known Risk Data from Residents Commit an Injustice Worthy of Amos’s Wrath

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Non-Western Critics Tie Human Rights Too Closely to Imperialism, Missing How Christians Long Used Them to Protect the Weak

Social Sciences15 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Restorative Justice as an Expanding Global Movement to Communities, Organizations, and Societies

Social Sciences17 min read

University of Queensland

Video Calls and Easy Air Travel Soften a Relocated Child’s Sense of Losing a Parent but Do Not Erase It

Law12 min read

American Bar Foundation

What Is the Calling of Christian Scholars in Global Governance?

LawSocial Sciences13 min read

Harvard University

A Pauline Dilemma Regarding Judgment According to Works

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Promising Sites for Prevention of Mass Violence and Injustice

Social Sciences12 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

Distributive, Commutative and Participatory Justice Cannot Be Swapped, Because Each Answers to Different Relations Within a Common Good

Theology11 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

God’s Justice Flows from His Loving Kindness, Which Tempers Cold Legal Judgement with Mercy

Theology15 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Loving a Neighbor Whose Rights Have Been Violated Is Not Optional Charity but an Obligation with Peremptory Force

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Justice, Often Poorly Translated as Righteousness, Pervasive in NT

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Institutional Care Must Reach Everyone Yet Fit Each Person, for Universality Without the Personal Collapses into Uniformity

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Academic Life Is Permeated by Principalities and Powers in Rebellion Against God, Yet Sanctification Remains Possible

Theology17 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

A Universal Love of Neighbour Can Empower Justice, Making Us Likelier to Respect and Uphold Others’ Rights

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Scientists May Be Predisposed to Think the More Complicated and Technical a Paper Is, the More Profound

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Does Revelation’s Warning That God Will Destroy Those Who Destroy the Earth Shape Our Stewardship of Creation?

Theology14 min read

University of Rosario

Could Care and Respect for Nature Replace Control and Domination as the Method and Measure of Science?

Humanities13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Turning the Other Cheek Is Neither Retaliation nor Submission but Courageous Love That Holds Aggressors Accountable

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Love Unifies the Virtues and Directs Each to Its End, from Courage in Danger to Humility Before Others’ Achievements

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Brunner Held That Sin Distorts Knowledge Most in Disciplines Nearest the Personkern, the Personal Center of Existence

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Love Gives Affectionate Direction to Action — It Fills Us with Something We Feel and Steers Us Toward Something We Do

35 min read

University of Hong Kong

Legal Academics Have a Responsibility as Public Intellectuals to Speak Truth on Justice Issues Beyond the University Walls

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Research Suggests That Regularly Dwelling on Others’ Needs Within Caring Communities Makes Robust Compassion and Generosity More Likely

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

A Drawing of Christians Crucified Along the Road to Tiananmen Places Today’s Rights Lawyers Among the Martyrs

Law20 min read

The Australian National University

The Aid Sector’s Obsession with Monitoring and Evaluation All Too Often Justifies More Grants Instead of Genuine Reflection

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Constant Disorder or Revolution Prohibits Social Renewal

20 min read

Markets Cannot Function Without Trust, Universality and Acceptance of Outcomes, Yet Economics Textbooks Rarely Mention Them

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Presents Evil So Unrelenting That Readers Must Decide for Themselves What Virtue Demands in Response

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Applying Virtue Ethics to AI for Social Good Requires Domain-Specific Virtues Rather Than Universal Principles

Engineering18 min read

University of Edinburgh

Institutional Excellence Is Not Enough: We Are Unhappy with Teachers Who See Only the Marks and Not Their Pupils

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

As Virtues Develop, Desires and Emotions Harmonize with Refined Judgments, but New Situations Continually Test This Harmony

38 min read

American Bar Foundation

With Christian Traditions Disagreeing on Which Ideals Come First, How Can Scholars Discern What Disorder to Induce in Institutions?

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Why Do Christians Distrust or Even Reject Jazz, Rock and African Drum Beats as the “Devil’s Chord” Rather Than Understand Them?

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Art Has Intrinsic Value, Outside of the Effect It Produces on Those Who Engage with It

Humanities18 min read

Markets Providing Morally Good Things Can Be Celebrated, Defining a Ministry of Doing Good by Doing Business

Social Sciences10 min read

University of Oxford

Immaterial Goods Such as Charity and Justice Can Be Powerful Motives, a Truth Materialist Social Science Keeps Overlooking

32 min read

Yale University

God Works to Redeem Humankind from Fallenness and Calls Us to Share in That Cause

30 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Mental Health Treatment Involves Attending to Relationships and Accountability

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Pricing the Right to Pollute Is Crude, Since the Poor May Be Unable to Afford Even Worthwhile Emissions

Social Sciences13 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Babel Exposes the Futility of the Nation-State’s Coercive Drive to Make One People Speak One Language

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Brian Tierney Traces Constitutional Government Largely to the Medieval Insistence on Jurisdictional Boundaries Between Popes and Emperors

Law18 min read

The Australian National University

How Economic Inequality Limits Responses of Poor Countries to Pandemics

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

Upstream Flood Defenses Can Push Danger onto Downstream Neighbors, as Windsor’s Dispute with Wraysbury Shows

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

In the History Wars over 1619 and 1776, Christian Historians Have Lined Up on Both Sides

Social Sciences15 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Restorative Practice Has Spread from Courts to Schools, Workplaces and Cities as a Movement for First-Order Justice

Social Sciences17 min read

University of Queensland

We Ask Family Law Judges Not for Justice in Parenting Cases but for Wisdom, Often Without Solomon’s

Law12 min read

Harvard University

Justification Is Not Through “What the Law Does”

Theology13 min read

Australian National University

Religious Leaders Have a Significant Role in Healing the Grievances That Drive Cycles of Mass Violence

Social Sciences12 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

Justice Is Not Merely a Matter of Intuition or Emotion but an Intellectual Discipline Non-Christians Can Be Invited Into

Theology11 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Modern Rights-Talk Often Fixates on Duties and Actions, Leaving Aside the Formation of Persons and Communities

Theology15 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Faith and Displacement’s Training of Colombian Churches Begins with Shalom, the Holistic Flourishing Jesus’ Ministry in Luke 4 Embodied

Theology18 min read

Yale University

NT on Justice, Rights and Righteousness

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Responsibility for Presence Must Be Shared, or No One Acts, and Differentiated by Authority, or No One Answers

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Love Rests in Accomplished Work, and Celebrating a Finished Manuscript Can Anticipate the Final Rest God Promises

Theology17 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Public Health Would Benefit from a Fuller Epidemiology of Love, Mapping Its Distribution, Determinants and Effects with Better Measures

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

C. S. Lewis’s Call for Christians to Write Popular Science Seems Answered in Oxford’s Very Short Introductions to Physics

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Christianity Began as the Way, a Path to Walk Behind Jesus, Not a Set of Propositions to Believe

Theology14 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Jesus’ Command to Love Enemies Breaks the Human Habit of Confining Love to Family and Neighbor

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

To Hutchinson, Humility Seems the Hardest Academic Virtue, with Prestigious Universities Expecting Faculty to Promote Themselves

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Economists Who See Rats in a Maze, Sociologists Who See Only Groups: Failing to Love, They Misread Persons

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Love of Persons Differs from Love of Experiences — Persons Command a Response That Food, Music, and Sunsets Do Not

35 min read

University of Hong Kong

In Illiberal States, Public Intellectuals Exposing Abuses of Power Must Balance Their Mission, with Courage and Prudence as Compass

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Even Adam Smith Knew the Invisible Hand Would Not Produce a Decent Society or Guarantee Equity

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Prudence Is the Overlooked Partner of Courage — Without It, Bold Action Becomes Recklessness That Endangers Clients and Colleagues

Law20 min read

The Australian National University

Australia’s Pacific Partners Complain Its Aid Offers Shallow Relationships and Short-Term Thinking While Ignoring Their Local Knowledge

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Applying Moral Order to Law and Society Requires Dialogue

20 min read

Game Theory Shows Trust Can Emerge from Repeated Interactions, but Genuine Trustworthiness Requires Virtue That Goes Beyond Strategic Calculation

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

McCarthy’s Judge Holden Embodies the Nietzschean Superman Whose Autonomous Will Claims Dominion over All Creation

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

A Request to Caricature a Named Person Shows AI Virtues Colliding: Satire May Be Just Yet Still Maleficent

Engineering18 min read

University of Edinburgh

Every Institution Owes Its Staff the Virtue of a Considerate Employer, Leaving Room for Their Best Moral Aspirations

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

The Weak-Willed Fail to Act Well and the Continent Succeed Only by Struggle — Neither Is Yet Virtuous

38 min read

American Bar Foundation

The Sexual Revolution Induced Revisions in How Churches Apply Moral Ideals

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Chinese Christians Call Baptism and the Eucharist “Holy Rites,” Uniting Confucian Ritual with Paul’s Vision of Diversity in Harmony

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Believers Attend Liturgy to Please God, Center Themselves or Find Guidance, Yet Its True Heart Is Worship

Humanities18 min read

University of Oxford

Some Moral Principles Are Observable Across All Societies; They Can Be Discerned Empirically

32 min read

Yale University

For Israel’s Widows, Orphans and Sojourners Injustice Was a Daily Condition, Not an Episode — So They Come First

30 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Health as Wholeness Requires Healing from Injustice

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

OT Language of Dominion (‘Rule over’) Implies the Responsibility of Kingship, Which Involves a Particular Concern for the Poor and Disadvantaged

Social Sciences13 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Pentecost Did Not Reverse Babel but Redeemed It, as Many Languages Were Understood Without Becoming One

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Harold Berman Argues That a Plurality of Church, Royal, Urban and Mercantile Jurisdictions Made the Supremacy of Law Both Necessary and Possible

Law18 min read

The Australian National University

Unable to Borrow in Their Own Currencies, Many Poor Countries Had Virtually No Fiscal Capacity to Fight COVID-19

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

Government Inaction on Disaster Risk Is a Sin of Omission, Driven by Power and Political Interests

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

In the Wake of Black Lives Matter, Statues of Slave Traders and Confederates Became Flash Points of Historical Memory

Social Sciences15 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Restorative Justice as a Unifying Vision of Shalom

Social Sciences17 min read

University of Queensland

Deciding Children’s Best Interests, a Good Family Court Must Lean Heavily on Medical and Psychological Experts, Not on Rights

Law12 min read

Harvard University

In Paul, “Works of the Law” Likely Means What the Law Does, Not Deeds Done in Obedience

Theology13 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

Speaking Justice to the Whole Academy

Theology11 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Justice Requires Love in Interpersonal Relations

Theology15 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Matthew 25 Names Migrants Among “the Least of These,” Making Christ’s Judgment a Text for Serving the Displaced

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Jesus Blesses Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Justice in Society, Not for Their Own Personal Rectitude

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

The Mutual Care Scorecard Asks Patients and Providers Whether Institutional Conditions Allow Love, Not How Much Love Individuals Have

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Love Is the Shape of Community Fully Arrived at, the City of God Toward Which Hope Strains

Theology17 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Public Health Could Run Love of Neighbour Campaigns, Tracking Love over Time and Spreading Proven Kindness Interventions

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

The Multiversity Has Replaced Shared Learning with Competition, but Its Fragmentation Runs Deeper Than Competition

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Worship That Makes Jesus Utterly Other Can Get in the Way of Walking the Path He Taught

Theology14 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Heaping Burning Coals on an Enemy’s Head Means Winning Them to Repentance Through Lavish, Unexpected Generosity

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

At His Secular University, Christian Professors’ Disproportionate Presence in Administration Reflects, He Believes, Christ’s Call to Servant Leadership

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Academic Fellowship Is More Than a Publishing Aid: Like Christ’s Body It Serves Love, and Should Celebrate Its Outcomes

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Personal Love Fixes on a Singular Person, Not a Type, and Only This Marriage Reveals What Marriage Holds

35 min read

University of Hong Kong

Practical Wisdom Guides Career Decisions When Institutional Pressures Conflict with a Scholar’s Commitment to Virtue

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Much of Economics Studies Unintended Consequences, Virtue Intentional Action, and Bringing Them Together Has Proven No Easy Task

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

The Party Deliberately Blurs Red and Grey Zones, Making Practical Wisdom a Matter of Survival for Lawyers

Law20 min read

The Australian National University

Corbett and Fikkert Call Poverty Relational, So Aid Must Help Restore Broken Relationships with God, Self, Others and Environment

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Our Grasp of the Created Moral Order Is Finite, Fallible and Sinful, So Criticism Must Be Constantly Sifted

20 min read

Fined for Lateness, Haifa Creche Parents Treated the Fine as a Price, and Their Lateness Outlasted the Fine

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Blood Meridian’s Judge Proclaims That War Is God, Emerging as an Icon of the Spirit That Drove American Western Expansion

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

Under “Thou Shall Not Kill”, a Self-Driving Car Might Swerve into Pedestrians Only as a Last Resort, If at All

Engineering18 min read

University of Edinburgh

Can Someone Possess One Virtue Fully Without Possessing Them All?

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

True Virtue Means Finding Pleasure in Acting Well and No Longer Being Able to Enjoy Acting Otherwise

38 min read

American Bar Foundation

Should Accounts of the Created Order, Crafted by Fallen and Historically Situated Thinkers, Admit the Humility Legal Reform Requires?

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucian and Biblical Orders, Though Radically Different, May Qualify and Strengthen Each Other Rather Than Merge or Reject One Another

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Embodied Goodness Is at the Heart of Christian Worship and Liturgy

Humanities18 min read

University of Oxford

We Can Discover Goods by Analysing What Motivates Our Behaviour

32 min read

Yale University

Duty to Care for Vulnerable and Displaced

30 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Justice Cannot Fully Heal: Forgiveness, Which Measurably Improves Mental Health, Is Needed for Health and Wholeness

Public HealthSocial Sciences19 min read

Environmental Justice Connects Ecological and Social Concerns

Social Sciences13 min read

Auckland University of Technology

At Pentecost Each Listener Heard Their Mother Tongue, a Gift That Affirmed Identity More Than It Served Communication

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

On No Separation Between Justice and Judgment

Law18 min read

The Australian National University

Informal Sector Workers Likely Face a Double Bind: No Credit for Themselves, and a State That Cannot Borrow

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

Poverty and Inequality Are Among Disaster’s Root Causes, Mountains That Faith in a Caring God Can Move

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

OT Biblical Literature, History and Narrative, as a Literature of Self-Critique over Injustice and Oppression

Social Sciences15 min read

Victoria University of Wellington

Carolyn Boyes-Watson Doubts Restorative Justice’s Future as a Managerial Add-On to Courts but Sees Hope in Activism Against Oppression

Social Sciences17 min read

University of Queensland

Second-Order Justice in Family Relations Is Not Always About Rights

Law12 min read

Harvard University

Silencing, Accusing and Killing, the Law Can Bring Knowledge of Sin but Never Justify the Sinner

Theology13 min read

Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)

Are We Judged Only by the Passing Court of History, or by a Transcendent Standard in God?

Theology11 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

In a Lawful Universe, Justice Means Keeping the Orders of the Cosmos and Injustice Means Missing the Mark

Theology15 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Matthew 25’s Goats Are Damned Not for Harming the Vulnerable but for Seeing Them and Doing Nothing

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Romans Is About God’s Justice, Not Righteousness: God Offers Justification Impartially to Jew and Greek

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Accountability Built on Blame and Fear May Undermine Love; It Should Be a Reason-Giving Relationship Between Authority and the Affected

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Eros Is Heightened Desire That Births Creativity and Scholarship, and Its Sin Is Ideology Closing Off Inquiry

Theology17 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

Love Without Full Agreement on the Good Can Help Public Health and Religious Institutions Partner Despite Clashes over Abortion

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Kagan’s ‘Tiny Stones Looking for a Place in a Cathedral’ Describe Too Many Natural Science Papers Too

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Like Paul’s “God Gave the Growth”, the Bhagavad Gita Teaches Service That Lets Go of Its Results

Theology14 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Ren’s Harmony with Heaven Widens Agapē to Embrace the Whole Creation, Because God So Loved the Cosmos

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Prized Above Rational Debate and Excellence, Academic Social Justice Activism Too Often Abandons Humility and Moderation

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Christian Scholars Cannot Honor Jesus’ Greatest Commandment in Private While Ignoring It in Their Scholarly Method

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

We Cannot Love Bach Apart from His Music

35 min read

University of Hong Kong

The Legal Conscience, Embedding Morality and Virtue, Must Guide Judges, Lawyers, Activists and Scholars Alike Toward Justice

Law11 min read

Yale Divinity School

Models That Cast All Action as Utility Maximization May Perversely Encourage Self-Interest by Legitimizing a Life of Maximizing Utility

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Practical Wisdom in Chinese Legal Rights Practice Involves Daily Decisions About Which Battles to Fight and Which to Defer

Law20 min read

The Australian National University

Modern Humanitarian Systems Focused on Funding and Expertise Miss Opportunities to Form Virtuous Character in Aid Recipients

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

How Christian Academics Argue Matters as Much as, Perhaps More Than, What They Argue

20 min read

Reputation May Eventually Expose Cheats, but by Then They May Have Pocketed Enough Short-Term Gains Not to Care

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Echoing Nietzsche, McCarthy’s Judge Calls Moral Law an Invention Favoring the Weak over the Powerful, and the Novel Never Refutes Him

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

AI Should Mimic the Created Order’s Truth, Not Its Data’s Order, Which Likely Mirrors Sin as Well as Virtue

Engineering18 min read

University of Edinburgh

A Wisely Compassionate Statesman Who Neglects His Family May Still Be Virtuous, but Never with Only One Excellence

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

Virtues Differ from Personality Traits like Extroversion or Anxiety — Traits Are Temperamental, Virtues Are Cultivated Dispositions Toward the Good

38 min read

American Bar Foundation

Assessing Whether Laws Promote Flourishing Requires Empirical Evidence as Well as Ethical Reflection

LawSocial Sciences15 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Confucius Leaves Virtue’s Reward to Fate, Where Paul Speaks of a Loving God’s Predestination Without Predeterminism

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Unlike Doing Justice, Worship Turns from Our Everyday Tasks to Face God, in Awed, Reverent and Grateful Adoration

Humanities18 min read

University of Oxford

Due to the Way Sin Impairs Our Ability to Know What Is Good, We Need Special Revelation — the Bible and Subsequent Reflection on It

32 min read

Yale University

The Pursuit and Protection of Justice as a Central Function of Government

30 min read

Perhaps the Rich West Should Be Required to Invest Heavily in Carbon Capture for the CO2 Build-Up It Caused

Social Sciences13 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Sociolinguistic Duty to “Give Voice” and to Hear

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Coronation Oaths Bound Medieval Kings to Execute Justice and Mercy, After Roman Emperors Had Abandoned the Caesars’ Claim to Divinity

Law18 min read

The Australian National University

Getting IR Beyond a Reductionism That Excludes Justice and Individual Agency

Social Sciences12 min read

Kyoto University

Evangelical Relief Agencies Once Hesitated over Justice as a Liberal Cause; Holistic Ministry Now Weds It to Mercy

Architecture14 min read

University of Leicester

Biblical Memory Insists That Justice Be Pursued but Challenges Our Tendency to Count Ourselves Among the Righteous

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Queensland

Australia’s Family Relationship Centres Offer Free or Nearly Free Mediation as an Early Alternative to Lawyers and Courts After Separation

Law12 min read

Harvard University

For Paul as for Ezekiel, God Keeps His Own Standard of Justice Precisely Because He Is Merciful

Theology13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

How Can Architects Practise Neighbour-Love by Designing Buildings for Community Life and Hospitality to the Vulnerable?

Theology15 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Seminaries Often Blunt Their Service to Society by Siloing Themselves Off from the Other Academic Disciplines

Theology18 min read

Yale University

First-Order Justice Concerns Individuals and Institutions Acting Justly in Their Ordinary Affairs

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Failures of Care Are Often Diffuse, with No Violation or Wrongdoer, and Can Stay Invisible Unless Measurement Reveals the Pattern

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Proper Self-Love, Receiving Ourselves as God’s Good Creation and Willing Our Own Good, Makes Neighbor-Love Possible

Theology17 min read

Harvard University School of Public Health

In Christian Teaching, Love of God and God’s Love for Us Empower Love of Neighbour, Even of Enemies

Public Health24 min read

University of Queensland

Scientists in Neighbouring Fields Often Unknowingly Develop the Same Techniques Because Silos Keep Them from Communicating

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Ministries Named After Their Founders Leave Parris Feeling Something Has Gone Awry with Ego in Christian Service

Theology14 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Agapē Asks No Repayment While Ren Presumes Mutuality, So Christian-Chinese Ethics May Find Agapē Transcendent Yet at Times Distant

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

A Former American Sociological Association President Casting Sociology Against Capitalism Shows a Rush to Judgment That Alienates Dissenters

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

University of Technology Sydney

Christ’s Mission Cannot Be Copied, but His Just Suffering, Humble Service and Sacrificial Love Are There to Imitate

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Edinburgh

Nygren’s Stark Opposition of Agape and Eros Collapsed Love into Two Caricatures That Neither Plato nor Paul Would Recognize

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Analysing Behaviour Through Incentives Can Encourage Seeing Persons as Manipulable Targets of Social Engineering, Not Reflective Agents

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Was Gao Zhisheng’s Relentless Outspokenness Courage or an Excess of It That Risked Silencing Him Forever?

Law20 min read

The Australian National University

The Virtuous Aid Worker Measures Success Not Just by Wells Dug but by the Mutual Building Up of Equals

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Amid Aggressive Campus Controversy, Absorbing Some Abuse and Staying Doggedly Reasonable May Well Impress the Many Who Are Watching

20 min read

Bowles Finds Even Tiny Incentives Tend to Crowd Out Altruism Categorically, and Larger Ones More at the Margin

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Against O’Connor’s Fiction of Mystery, McCarthy’s Judge Insists the Only Mystery Is That There Is None

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

As God’s Image-Bearers, Humans Must Steward AI, and Any System Built to Control People Should Be Prohibited

Engineering18 min read

University of Edinburgh

Because Every Good Act Must Fit Its Situation, Thomas Gives Prudence a Distinct Place as the Virtue Always Needed

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

Virtues Differ from Skills Because a Skill Can Be Used for Good or Bad Ends, While Virtue Is Inherently Directed Toward the Good

38 min read

Yale University

Christian Worship Is Not Discourse About God’s Excellence but Awed, Reverential and Grateful Adoration of It

Humanities18 min read

University of Oxford

The Christian Tradition Recognized General Revelation Alongside Special Revelation

32 min read

Yale University

Evangelicals Who Make Liberty Government’s Main Task Forget That Liberty Without Justice Frees the Predators

30 min read

Climate Justice Demands More Than Halting Rainforest Destruction; Forests Must Be Replanted Wherever Feasible

Social Sciences13 min read

Auckland University of Technology

Listen and Give Voice to the Linguistically Marginalized

Social SciencesHumanities13 min read

The University of Queensland

Since the Fall, Justice-as-Judgment Must Set Wrongs Right, and Only Those with the Virtue of Justice Can Fully Enact It

Law18 min read

University of Leicester

Christian Memory Charts a Third Way, Refusing to Reduce the Past to Its Crimes or to Ignore Them

Social Sciences15 min read

University of Queensland

On Love and Peace-Making: Loving Instead of Suing Your Enemy, Relationships Sometimes Matter More Than Rights

Law12 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

How Can Loving Your Neighbour in Banking Overcome Poverty and Zero-Sum Games, Through Microloans or Zero-Interest Cooperatives?

Theology15 min read

Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia

Interdisciplinary Study Is No Niche for Fringe Theologians but a Way to Speak More Truly About God

Theology18 min read

Yale University

Rape Is a Profound Injustice Not Because Burdens Are Maldistributed but Because the Victim Is Treated with Indignity

43 min read

Pontificia Universidad Católica

Love Cannot Be Left to Good Individuals When the Structures They Work Within Stop Them from Acting on It

Public Policy13 min read

University of Oxford

Friendship, or Philia, Is Freely Chosen Between Equals, and O’Donovan Argues It Can Be More Precise Than Agape

Theology17 min read

University of Queensland

Condensed Matter Physics Chases Fashionable Discoveries Instead of Sustained Work on Old, Hard Problems, Driven by an Obsession with Novelty

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Would We Still Follow Christ out of Pure Love If Heaven Held No Reward and Hell No Threat?

Theology14 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Since Constantine, the Powerful Have Claimed Divine Entitlement, Raising Critical Questions About Agapē Privileged for Elites

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

American Higher Education Is Losing Public Confidence in Large Part Because Academics Presume to Prescribe Justice

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

University of Edinburgh

Plato’s Eros as Love of Beauty Was Better Than Nygren Gave It Credit for — It Drove Inquiry Upward from Particular Beauties to Beauty Itself

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Hay Cites Literature Suggesting Incentive-Centred Teaching Erodes Character, and as Bowles Says, Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Too Little Prudence Makes Lawyers Rash; Too Much Makes Them Timid, Letting Down Clients, Cause and the Faith Itself

Law20 min read

The Australian National University

A Focus on Individual Character Virtues Can Entrench Existing Power Imbalances If Not Anchored in the Vulnerable

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Legal Rights Take Effect Only Where Citizens Have the Virtue to Restrain Themselves and Respect Others’ Speech

20 min read

Monetary Incentives Can Crowd Out Moral Sentiments, Making People Less Virtuous Rather Than More Compliant

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Blood Meridian’s Near-Total Absence of Virtue Confronts Readers with Fallenness and a Visceral Longing for Redemption

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

University of Edinburgh

New Testament Virtue Lists Vary Across Epistles, Suggesting Focal Virtues Shift with Context Rather Than Forming a Fixed Hierarchy

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

Intellectual Virtues Are Better Called Skills, Since a Brilliant Scientist Can Wield Them Without Being Good

38 min read

Yale University

To Promote Order We Need Awe at God’s Goodness, and Horror at the Ways Evil Has Marred His Creation

Humanities18 min read

University of Oxford

Creational Goods Are Prior to Moral Commands

32 min read

Yale University

Justice Requires Worship, Giving God What Is Due God

30 min read

If Christians Have Failed as Stewards, Conservation and Restoration Belong to Every Disciple, Not a Committed Few

Social Sciences13 min read

University of Leicester

Past Generations Left Us Both Precious Heritage and Festering Crimes, So We Owe Them Respect and Critique

Social Sciences15 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Police Violence and Sentencing Are So Often Racialised: How Can Restorative Justice Transform the Incarcerated Beyond Punishment?

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Warrantless Government Snooping Wrongs You Without Distributing Anything, So Justice Cannot Be Only About Fair Distribution

43 min read

University of Queensland

The Obsession with Novelty Tempts Researchers to Abandon Occam’s Razor for Needlessly Complex Interpretations

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

Basil the Great’s Three Dispositions of Obedience

Theology14 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Jonah and the Prodigal’s Elder Brother Show How Humans Resent God’s Love for Those They Deem Undeserving

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Nature Cannot Be Fooled, and Experiment Gives Science an Arbiter of Truth the Humanities Rarely Have

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

University of Edinburgh

A Mathematician’s First Fascination Opens onto Wisdom’s Beauty, as a Beloved Opens a View of the Universe to the Lover

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

We Need Not Merely a Felt Obligation to Care but Actual Caring, Learned Where Its Beauty Can Be Seen

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Taking China’s Falun Gong Cases Risks a Lawyer’s License, Yet Christians Can See It as Charity amid Savage Injustice

Law20 min read

The Australian National University

Virtue Ethics Can Turn Aid into Consumption, Feeding a White Saviour Complex That Showcases the Giver’s Goodness

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

In the Bible, Chaos Is the Enemy of the Good

20 min read

Bowles Suggests an Incentive Can Signal That Self-Interest Is Appropriate, as in the Supermarket Rather Than the Family

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Literature Stirs the Desire to Be Virtuous, Perhaps Because Its Verbal Form Mirrors Our Own Moral Complexity

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

University of Edinburgh

Faith, Hope and Love, Especially Love, Must Accompany Every Other Virtue, Paul Says, Because They Last into Eternity

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

A Person Can Possess Intellectual Virtues Without Moral Virtues — but Genuine Wisdom Requires Both to Work Together

38 min read

University of Oxford

The Gift of Liberation Precedes the Giving of the Law (Exodus)

32 min read

Yale University

Justice Is Indispensable but Not the Whole of the Good Life, Only One of Countless Things Worth Valuing

30 min read

University of Leicester

Abolitionism Had Quaker, Anglican and Black Evangelical Roots, in an Enlightenment That Often Occurred Within the Churches

Social Sciences15 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

In a Moral Universe, Justice Is Health Owed to Persons and Creation, and Injustice Is Illness and Toxicity

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Institutions, Not Only Individuals, Act Justly and Unjustly — Which Is Why They Can Sue and Be Sued

43 min read

University of Queensland

Science Teaching That Ignores the History of Hard-Won Knowledge Serves Efficiency, Not a Love of Old Knowledge

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

University of Oxford

The Point of Christian Life Is Theosis, Being Transformed Ever More Deeply into God’s Own Life in Christ

Theology14 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Theology and Chinese Studies Can Collaborate in a Both-and Dialogue That Respects Each Discipline Without Imposing Uniformity

Theology21 min read

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Scientists Can Fool Themselves, So Love for Teammates and Critics Lubricates the Intellectual Engine of Science

Biological & Physical Sciences11 min read

University of Edinburgh

The Enlightenment Made Self-Love the Master Principle of Action, Reducing All Love to a Species of Desire — a Move Paul and Augustine Would Reject

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Digital Technologies Are Not Neutral with Respect to Virtue — They Can Cultivate or Corrode Character Depending on Design and Use

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Li Heping Stepped Back to Anti-Torture Work as Less Sensitive, but the Security Apparatus Still Deemed It a Threat

Law20 min read

The Australian National University

Ethical Humanitarianism Must Start with Those Who Suffer, Precious to God, Not with the Donor’s Virtue

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

In the Bible, Chaos Is the Enemy of God’s Will

20 min read

Liberal Societies Display Civic Virtues in Markets Partly Because of Historical Religious and Cultural Foundations

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

A Deeply Textured Understanding of Virtue Requires Engagement with Ambiguity, Not Retreat from It

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

University of Edinburgh

Jesus’ Dishonest Steward Misused His Prudence, Yet Showed the Shrewd Deliberation No Virtue Can Do Without

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

The Wicked May Gain Power or Wealth but Cannot Truly Flourish — Virtues Are Essential to Human Flourishing in Its Fullest Sense

38 min read

University of Oxford

Since the Moral Order Is Universal, It Is (at Least Partly) Accessible to All

32 min read

Yale University

Being Just Demands Humility Above All: Stepping out of the Center to Attend to the Other Person’s Dignity

30 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

How Can Ecology and Climate Research Envision Justice-Oriented Programmes That Restore the Health of Habitat and Outer Space?

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Whether Banks Treat People of Color Seeking Loans Justly Is a Matter of First-Order, Everyday Justice

43 min read

University of Queensland

Kagan Observed That Tenure Pressure Makes Young Faculty Feel Forced into Narrow Specialties and a Race to Publish

Biological & Physical Sciences13 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Could Love Inspire Business Leaders to Seek the Good of Employees and Clients Beyond Profit Margins?

Theology21 min read

University of Edinburgh

If Truth Is Love’s Criterion, Love Can Fail by Being False, Not Merely by Being Weak

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

AI May Discern Patterns in the Created Order, but Those Patterns Belong to a Fallen Creation

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Knowing How the Church Has Endured Persecution Through History Could Fortify China’s Christian Lawyers in Their Trials

Law20 min read

The Australian National University

Is Aid Charity Offered Because We Can Help, or Reparations Owed Because Wealthy Nations Caused the Harm?

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

There Is a Tension Between Rights and Virtues in Discussions of Political Participation

20 min read

Bowles Argues Markets Co-Evolved with Property and the Rule of Law, Which More Than Offset the Virtue Markets Erode

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale University

Against a Hermeneutics of Suspicion, Alan Jacobs’s Hermeneutics of Love Grants Authors the Courtesy We Are Called to Grant Persons

Fine & Performing Arts19 min read

University of Edinburgh

Intellectual Virtues Are More Than Skills — They Involve Moral Orientation, Not Just Cognitive Competence

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

Virtues Heal Our Inner Conflicts, Transforming Our Affections So Desires, Emotions and Judgments Work in Harmony

38 min read

University of Oxford

Confucian Thinkers Arrived at Several Just War Principles by an Entirely Separate Route, Without Ever Needing the Bible

32 min read

Yale University

The Relationship of Justice to Other Virtues

30 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

If Justice Is Health, How Can Medicine Rectify Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Access to Care and Stem-Cell Therapies?

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Justice Reaches Environmental Relations: There Is Justice and Injustice Between a Coal-Burning Plant and an Asthmatic Child Nearby

43 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Could Ren’s Unity of All Things Under Heaven Change How We Treat Pests, Predators and Poisonous Plants?

Theology21 min read

University of Edinburgh

How Can Specialists Love the One Corner of the World They Know While Loving God and Neighbour First?

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

One Can Endorse and Embed Principles like Benevolence While Lacking the Virtues of Love and Kindness Altogether

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Virtue Belongs to Communities Too, and China’s Christian Lawyers Staying Connected Is an Act of Corporate Courage

Law20 min read

The Australian National University

Faith, Hope and Love Offer Humanitarianism What Consequences-Based and Rule-Based Ethics Alone Cannot Provide

Social Sciences16 min read

University of Oxford

Christians Have a Prophetic Role in Modelling the Virtues That Let Incendiary Issues Be Discussed Rationally

20 min read

The Contested Link Between Protestantism and Market Economies Raises Whether Religious Virtue Is What Sustains Commercial Trust

Social Sciences21 min read

University of Edinburgh

Is Ignorance That a Child Should Be at a Parent’s Deathbed Merely Unfortunate, or Blameable Ignorance of Who We Are?

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

The Virtuous Act for the Sake of the Good Itself, Not for Their Own Pleasure or Perfection

38 min read

University of Oxford

A ‘Tense Consensus’ Is Possible Between Christian and Non-Christian Accounts of Morality

32 min read

Yale University

Sometimes Justice Is Not Merely Served by Listening to Another’s Story — Listening Is Itself the Just Act

30 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Do Scholars of Language Have a Duty to Overcome Bigotry, Bullying and Toxic Speech as Forms of Injustice?

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Justice Binds Nations Too: An Affluent European Country Can Treat a Syrian Refugee Justly or Unjustly

43 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Could Uniting Ren and Agapē in Medical Ethics Deepen Empathy and Help Us Understand Healing as a Form of Salvation?

Theology21 min read

University of Edinburgh

Scholars Receive Their Specialised Attention to One Aspect of the World as a Vocation — Summoned by the Creator Who Loves the Whole

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Rules Always Meet Ambiguous Cases, So Should Wise Judgment Ever Be Offloaded to Unaccountable AI Black Boxes?

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Communities of Virtue Sustain Individual Courage; Isolation from Community Is the Surest Path to Moral Collapse

Law20 min read

University of Oxford

In the UK, Christians Have Often Led the Defence of Free Speech, Becoming Champions of Liberality

20 min read

Hirsch Argues Contract Law Cannot Sustain Honest Markets Without Social Consent, and Lawyering Every Deal Would Undermine Their Advantage

Social Sciences21 min read

University of Edinburgh

Virtues Are Necessary but Not Sufficient — Only Grace Allows Our Dispositions and Powers to Come Together to Serve God

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

The Virtuous Will Not Lie or Cheat for Social Welfare, Since Welfare Won That Way Is Not Flourishing

38 min read

University of Oxford

Christian Spiritual Practices Such as Confession, Prayer, and Worship Make Us Better at Promoting the Good

32 min read

Yale University

Rights-Talk Is Abused by Possessive Individualism but Should Not Be Abandoned

30 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

In a Holy and Beautiful Universe, Justice Gives Each Their Due: Honour to All, Love to Friends, Reverence to God

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Restorative Justice — Apology, Forgiveness, Restitution — Is One of Many Just Responses to Wrongdoing Alongside Punishment

43 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

In the Age of AI, Are We Lonelier Than Ever Even as Digital Companionship Offers New Forms of Connection?

Theology21 min read

University of Edinburgh

Specialist Fields Are Tempted into Walled Communities of Exclusive Mutual Esteem, Sometimes Bristling with Defensive Fortifications

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Discretionary Powers in Law Mean Virtues Will Always Be Required — Rules Alone Cannot Replace the Judgment of Virtuous Practitioners

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

By Lying Low and Avoiding Public Attacks on Xi Jinping, the Lawyers’ Community Exercises a Collective Prudence

Law20 min read

University of Oxford

Does a Dialogue That Sweeps Rational Objection Aside Have Any Rules, and Is It Really a Dialogue at All?

20 min read

In Hirsch’s Account, Without an Ethic That Treats Paying Taxes as a Social Duty, Tax Avoidance Becomes the Norm

Social Sciences21 min read

University of Edinburgh

We Pray to Be Led Not into Temptation Because No Acquired Virtue Can Fully Prepare Us for It

Theology18 min read

Yale Divinity School

There Is No Exhaustive List of Virtues: Each Distinct Challenge to Acting Well Calls for Its Own

38 min read

University of Oxford

Christians Adapt Classical Virtues Through a Theological Lens Shaped by Awareness of Sin

32 min read

Yale University

“Love Your Neighbor as Yourself” Legitimizes Well-Ordered Self-Love, and with It Claiming One’s Own Rights

30 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

How Can Astronomy and Physics Attract Scientists of Colour and Minorities, and by So Doing Advance Their Fields?

Theology15 min read

Yale University

Second-Order Justice Concerns the Laws, Sanctions and Systems That Secure First-Order Justice

43 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Can Disciplinary Language Name What Obstructs Love — Sin, the Fall, Systemic Disorder — and Offer Hope Against It?

Theology21 min read

University of Edinburgh

Treating Knowledge as Property That Confers Power Forgets That All We Know Is Received, Not Owned

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Law Can Form Ethics amid Broad Consensus, but Without It Legislating High Ideals Can Backfire and Elicit Disrespect

33 min read

American Bar Foundation

Christian Rights Lawyers Depict the Communist Party as a Community of Vice, Addicted to Power and Accepting Any Cruelty

Law20 min read

University of Oxford

Postmodernists Who Condemn Unjust Power Are Themselves Appealing to an Objective, Transcendent Moral Order

20 min read

Bowles Lumps Protestantism with Clan Traditions, Missing That It Treated Outsiders Too as Bearers of God’s Image

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale Divinity School

Constancy Has Been Called a Distinctively Modern Virtue, Needed to Navigate the Fragmented Social Spheres of Contemporary Life

38 min read

University of Oxford

Aristotle: Community Is Basic to Human Life

32 min read

Yale University

Believing Oneself to Have No Rights Is a Deep Moral Defect: A Failure to Recognize One’s Own Dignity and Worth

30 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Is It an Injustice When Academic Elitism Leaves Scholarship Inaccessible to the Public and to Sister Disciplines?

Theology15 min read

Yale University

On the Relationship Between Virtues and Justice: Just Action Requires the Exercise of Other Virtues

43 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

The Chinese Communist Party Invokes Ren and Harmony While Its Wolf Warrior Diplomacy Betrays Confucian Virtue

Theology21 min read

University of Edinburgh

When the University Becomes a Multiversity Marketing Rival Studies, It Mirrors Society Instead of Correcting It

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Following Aquinas, Human Law Should Lead People to Virtue Gradually, Not Burden the Imperfect with Perfection

33 min read

University of Oxford

The Postmodern Critique of Power Is Itself a Bid for Power, and ‘Woke’ Academics Often Abuse It

20 min read

Regulating Bad Market Behaviour Risks Becoming Costly, and Rules Can Simply Give the Regulated an Incentive to Evade Them

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale Divinity School

Christ’s Perfect Virtue Means Not Owning Every Item on a List but Responding Perfectly in Every Situation

38 min read

University of Oxford

Trinitarian Monotheism Entails a Created Order That Is Dynamic and Creative, Not Barren or Sterile

32 min read

Yale University

Prima Facie Rights Can Conflict, but All-Things-Considered Rights Do Not

30 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Relational Justice Raises a Question for Researchers: How Do We Care for Loved Ones, Assistants and Colleagues Beyond Productivity?

Theology15 min read

Yale University

First-Order Justice Renders to Others Their Rights and Dues Grounded in the Excellence of the Rights-Bearer

43 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Amid Surveillance That Treats Citizens as Chives to Be Harvested, Chinese Christians’ Pursuit of Love Appears Counter-Political to the Party-State

Theology21 min read

University of Edinburgh

Love of Knowledge Must Hold Established Understanding and New Discovery in Tension, Never Finalising What Is Provisional

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Epistemic Virtues Assist in Arriving at Truth; Epistemic Vices like Arrogance and Closed-Mindedness Corrupt Inquiry

33 min read

University of Oxford

Theologians Must Communicate with Non-Specialists to Address Contemporary Social Challenges

20 min read

Hoping Secular Moral Codes Can Replace Religious Ones in Forming Good Citizens Seems a Triumph of Optimism over Realism

Social Sciences21 min read

Yale Divinity School

Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Courage Address the Four Fundamental Challenges of Human Agency Identified by Aristotle and Christianized by Aquinas

38 min read

University of Oxford

Order Does Not Obviate Freedom; Physical Laws Permit Quantum Randomness

32 min read

Yale University

How the Nature of Rights Relates to Duties

30 min read

Yale University

The Fashionable Theory Grounding Non-Conferred Rights in Autonomy Fails, Since No Theorist Has Explained What That Right Amounts To

43 min read

Garrett-Evangelical Seminary

Love of Enemies and Steadfast Ren Refuse Revenge, Turning Sites of State Terror into Spaces of Self-Giving Love

Theology21 min read

University of Edinburgh

A Teacher Grading Scripts May Need to Take Love’s Costly Detour Beyond Professional Rules to Notice Hidden Achievement

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Miranda Fricker Analyses How Epistemic Injustice Discounts People as Knowers for Their Group, and Proposes Virtues of Epistemic Justice

33 min read

University of Oxford

A Moral Theologian Cannot Apply Principles to Medicine, War or Politics Without First Learning the Matter Itself

20 min read

Yale Divinity School

Practical Wisdom Straddles Intellect and Morality, Reasoning Rightly About Means Only When the Ends Are Truly Good

38 min read

University of Oxford

Moral Laws Need to Be Applied Wisely and Creatively to Different Situations; They Cannot Be Followed Mindlessly

32 min read

Yale University

Like Kant’s Imperfect Duties, Some Rights Bind No One in Particular — the Right to Health Care Among Them

30 min read

Yale University

Torturing Prisoners Wrongs Them Not by Curbing an Autonomy Their Imprisonment Already Curbs, but by Violating Their Dignity

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

Love of Knowledge Must Reaffirm the Centrality of Education — Giving Our Knowledge to the Service of Others Rather Than Hoarding It

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Distrust and Polarization Feed Each Other, and Rebuilding Trust Likely Requires Face-to-Face Engagement in Activities Not Politically Freighted

33 min read

University of Oxford

Reconciliation Is Most at Home Among Family and Friends, Not Between a Stasi Informer and the Neighbour He Informed On

20 min read

Yale Divinity School

The Crucified Jesus and His Martyred Followers Replaced Heroic Warriors as the Foremost Exemplars of Virtue in Christian Thought

38 min read

University of Oxford

Applying International Law Most Justly May Depend on the Social or Political Context

32 min read

Yale University

Wolterstorff Suspects Ulpian’s Formula Lies Behind Grounding Justice in Rights, Not Duties, and Admits He Cannot Picture the Alternative

30 min read

Yale University

To Violate Someone’s Rights Is to Treat Them in a Way That Demeans Their Worth and Dignity

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

Educating for Life Means Educating in Ethics, So Students See the World as Neither Putty nor Granite Wall

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Christian Communities Tempted Toward Epistemic Insulation Should Follow Jesus Before Pilate into Disruptive Engagement

33 min read

University of Oxford

How Reconciliation Should or Should Not Be Sought After Political Conflict

20 min read

Yale Divinity School

Faith, Hope and Love Let Us Act Well Toward a God Beyond Earthly Goods, and Love Our Enemies

38 min read

University of Oxford

The Bible’s Egalitarian Refrain Is Real, Yet It Gives No Warrant for Rejecting Every Hierarchy as Oppression

32 min read

Yale University

Witte on the Deep History of the Idea of Natural Rights

30 min read

Yale University

Human Rights Are a Subset of Natural Rights: Those Held Simply by Being Human, Not by Special Gifts

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

Virtue Is a Hellenistic Term That Christian Ethics Adopted to Name the Shapes Love Takes When It Meets Specific Situations

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

A Simplistic Focus on Virtue Risks Moralism — Reducing Complex Situations to Easy Moral Judgments That Miss the Actual Human Stakes

33 min read

University of Oxford

A Rwandan Photograph Shows That After Genocide, Mere Coexistence Between Killer and Bereaved Is No Mean Achievement

20 min read

Yale Divinity School

From Augustine to Aquinas to the Reformers, Christian Traditions of Virtue Hold Divine Law and Virtue Together

38 min read

University of Oxford

Any Complex Society Needs a Hierarchical Division of Labour, as Paul’s Image of the Body Shows

32 min read

Yale University

A Christian Voice on Justice Should Be a Key Issue for the University

30 min read

Yale University

Bearing the Image of God Is a Natural Excellence That Grounds Rights No Law or Person Confers

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

Virtues Are Patterns We Admire in Others, Not Principles That Tell Us What to Decide

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Literature, Slow and Imaginative, Can Instil Moral Urgency and Grasp Ambiguity Without Becoming Moralistic

33 min read

University of Oxford

Discerning What Is Good Requires Dialogue Between the Disciplines

20 min read

Yale Divinity School

No Single Virtue Can Be Perfected in the Absence of the Others — Courage Without Justice Is Recklessness

38 min read

University of Oxford

The Biblical Tradition Affirms Both Equality and Hierarchy

32 min read

Yale University

Freedom Rights to Worship and Speak Are Rights to Be Permitted, Grounded in Capacities We Naturally Have

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

Virtues Are Dispositions Specially Determined by Situations — Courage by Danger, Humility by Achievements, Patience by Long Undertakings

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

One Concern About Late Modern Societies: They Resent Others’ Moral Judgments Yet Pronounce Their Own Inside Echo Chambers

33 min read

University of Oxford

Confucian Virtue-Talk Exposes the West’s Overreliance on Rights and Might Remind Christians of Their Own Virtue Tradition

20 min read

Yale Divinity School

Like Paul’s Spiritual Gifts, Virtues Are Variously Distributed: Some Excel in Kindness, Others in Courage

38 min read

University of Oxford

Those at the Top of a Hierarchy Must Treat Those Below Them Fraternally

32 min read

Yale University

Rights-Talk Is Not the Disease of Possessive Individualism; Its Selfish Use Is an Abuse to Be Corrected

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

Justice May Be Spoken of as a Virtue, Yet from Its Earliest Philosophical Reflection It Has Claimed Supremacy over All Other Virtues

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Whether Called Virtues or Character Strengths, Psychiatry’s Language Must Empower Patients’ Agency, Not Foster Passivity

33 min read

Yale Divinity School

Church Life Supplies Exemplars of Virtue, from Scripture and Saints in Stained Glass to Potluck Dinners

38 min read

University of Oxford

Hobbes: There Is No Moral Law Except for Human Contracts; the Human Condition Is Fundamentally Amoral

32 min read

Yale University

Brian Tierney Showed 12th-Century Canon Lawyers Already Using Natural Rights, Long Before the Enlightenment’s Secular Individualists

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

In the New Testament, Righteousness Belongs First to God and Means Being Judged Favourably, Not Having Good Intentions

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Aid Recipients Risk Passivity, and Alana Moore Insists They Must Have the Chance to Grasp the Good for Themselves

33 min read

Yale Divinity School

Are Only the Theological Virtues Infused by Grace, or Do Christians Receive Infused Moral Virtues Too?

38 min read

University of Oxford

Positive Law Is Accountable to Natural Morality; Unjust Laws May Be Justly Transgressed

32 min read

Yale University

We Are Called to Be Agents of Justice, Not Only Claimants, Honoring Others’ Rights as We Press Ours

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

Moral Virtues May Be Exercised in Secret, but Justice Demands Full Public Recognition of the Neighbour as Oneself

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Empirical Evidence Links Moral Character to Flourishing, but Reducing Virtue to a Therapeutic Tool for Wellbeing Misses Its Intrinsic Worth

33 min read

Yale Divinity School

Grasping Virtues as Gifts Heals Our Tendency to Treat Them as Works-Righteousness

38 min read

University of Oxford

Laws Do Not Overlap with Natural Morality Perfectly; Otherwise, States Would Have to Police in Highly Intrusive Ways

32 min read

Yale University

An Intrinsic Connection Between Rights and Duties/Obligations

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

The Justice We Want Is Always More Than the Justice We Can Achieve — Law Must Remain Open to the Claims of Love That Exceed Its Provisions

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

The Virtues Never Detract from Flourishing, Even in Prison: They Let People Flourish as Fully as Circumstances Allow

33 min read

Yale Divinity School

Spiritual Disciplines like Repentance and Prayer Help Cultivate Grace-Given Virtues, Since Divine and Human Agency Do Not Compete

38 min read

University of Oxford

In a Failed State Natural Moral Law Still Binds Consciences, but Without Courts the Innocent Are Poorly Protected

32 min read

Yale University

Why the Recognition of Rights Is Important

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

No Human Judgment Can Adequately Account for or Repair Colonial Slavery, and Hasty Judgment Risks Adding New Wrongs

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Against the Stoic, the Sage on the Rack Is Not Simply Happy but as Happy as Those Circumstances Permit

33 min read

Yale Divinity School

Augustine Considered Pagan Virtues Splendid Vices, but the Reformed Doctrine of Common Grace Offers a More Generous Reading

38 min read

University of Oxford

Christian Appeal to Created Order Provides a Higher Moral Authority by Which Unjust Regimes Can Be Critiqued or Rebelled Against

32 min read

Yale University

Women’s, Labor and Civil Rights Movements Needed Rights Language to Name How the Oppressed Were Being Wronged

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

Contemporary International Law Owes Many of Its Categories to Christians Who Held Even Sovereign Governments Subject to God’s Law

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Grace and the Virtues Lead Ultimately to Friendship with God, Which Orders All Other Virtues Toward Their Proper End

33 min read

Yale Divinity School

Christian Virtues Remain Imperfect This Side of Eternity — Augustine Emphasized Virtue Is a Struggle, Not a Settled Achievement

38 min read

University of Oxford

Rebellion Against Unjust States Can Be Justified in Some Circumstances

32 min read

Yale University

A Right Trumps Any Good That Violating It Might Bring About, Because Nothing Overrides an Obligation

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

Christian Hope Has Sought to Make Punishment a Witness to Forgiveness, Curbing Pointless Cruelty and the Death Penalty

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Virtue Is Insufficient on Its Own: Both the Greek Fathers and Aquinas Insist It Depends on Grace

33 min read

Yale Divinity School

Volunteer Mountain Rescue Teams Show How an Institution Can Model and Cultivate Courage, Discipline and Compassion

38 min read

University of Oxford

With No Global Government, the Authority of International Law Rests on States’ Willingness to Respect It

32 min read

Yale University

Without Rights Language, We Cannot Brake Regimes like Hitler’s and Stalin’s That Trample People for a Claimed Greater Good

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

To Know Truly Is to Know in Love, Which Is Knowledge’s End and Not Merely Its Motive

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Professional Sports Can Corrupt Character as the Pursuit of Money and Fame Swamps the Goods of Competition

38 min read

University of Oxford

If Enough Powerful States Discard International Law, It Becomes a Dead Letter and Armed Conflict Grows Likelier

32 min read

Yale University

Benevolence That Humiliates Its Recipients Violates Their Dignity, and We Need Rights to Put a Brake on It

43 min read

University of Edinburgh

Love of Knowledge Must Honour the Ordering of Goods That God Has Given — No Branch of Knowledge Is Self-Sufficient

35 min read

Yale Divinity School

Social Practices, Institutions, and Communities Can Be Conducive or Destructive to the Cultivation of Virtue

38 min read

University of Oxford

Peremptory Norms Recognise Moral Duty May Override International Law; Most Lawyers Deemed NATO’s Kosovo Intervention Illegal Yet Morally Necessary

32 min read

Yale University

For Animals’ and Plants’ Rights, the Open Question Seems to Be What Respect Their Intrinsic Goodness Is Due

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

Intellectual Humility Pairs Fitting Confidence in One’s Beliefs with Real Openness to Evidence That Might Overturn Them

38 min read

University of Oxford

Christian Academics Should Cultivate Humility, Docility, Patience, Justice, Charity and Courage in the Pursuit of Truth

32 min read

Yale University

Justice Runs Through the Academy Twice: In How It Deals with People and in What Its Disciplines Study

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

The Scholarly Life Requires Moral Virtues Alongside Intellectual Ones — Integrity, Humility, and Generosity Are as Essential as Rigor

38 min read

University of Oxford

In Universities That Neglect Virtue, a Christian Academic’s Humble Pursuit of Truth Becomes a Prophetic Witness

32 min read

Yale University

Justice in the Academy as an Institution

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

Universities Cultivate Particular Vices: Careerism, Intellectual Vanity, Exploitation of Students, and the Equation of Prestige with Worth

38 min read

Yale University

Academic Life Must Be Judged by Justice, Not Just Success, down to the Fine Texture of Daily Interactions

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

University Incentives Can Turn Lovers of Truth into Careerists Who Care More for Recognition Than for Discovery

38 min read

Yale University

Teachers Who Set Unfair Tests or Humiliate Students They Dislike Are Wronging Them, Not Just Teaching Badly

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

Each of Us Can Likely Recall a Brilliant but Callous Colleague Who Shuns Departmental Life and Sows Paralyzing Self-Doubt

38 min read

Yale University

Senior Scholars Who Blackmail Young Rivals They See as Competitors Commit a Real Injustice That Must Be Halted

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

Universities Can Develop Policies That Weave Fairness, Transparency, and Care into Daily Life to Support Virtue

38 min read

Yale University

Research Funding and Agenda-Setting Are Questions of Justice — Skewed Priorities, a Respondent Warns, Decide Whose Needs Get Studied

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

Competition Is Healthy in a University Only Where People Feel Safe Enough to Fail Without Risking Their Worth

38 min read

Yale University

A Respondent Notes That Global Health Inequality Extends to Knowledge Itself: Poorer Countries’ Conditions Draw Less Clinical Research

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

A University Pledged to Improving the World Must Begin at Home, Aligning Its Inner Workings with Its Mission

38 min read

Yale University

Justice on the Scholarly Frontiers of the Academy

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

Scholars Can Attend to How Their Disciplines and Agendas Form and Deform Character in Students, Colleagues, and Society

38 min read

Yale University

Public Health Must Ask What Justice Demands for “the Little Ones,” Not Merely What Is Cost-Efficient

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

Search Algorithms Can Be Built to Foster Reflection on Complexity and Ambiguity Rather Than Reinforcing Stereotypes

38 min read

Yale University

Economists Should Ask Not Only How Large a Nation’s GNP Is but Whether It Is Justly Distributed

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

Profit Is Not an Ultimate Human Good: A More Humane Economy Serves Genuine Human Needs and a Sustainable World

38 min read

Yale University

Education Scholars Should Ask Whether Access to Quality Schooling Is Justly Distributed Across Districts and States

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

Christians Can Join Those of Every Faith and None in Remaking Academic Institutions That Form and Deform Character

38 min read

Yale University

Political Theorists Have a Duty to Ask What a Just Refugee and Immigration Policy Would Look Like

43 min read

Yale Divinity School

Publication Incentives May Tempt Scholars to Cut Corners and Pad CVs, While Unrecognized Teaching Gets Neglected

38 min read

Yale University

Historians Answering the Call to Justice Abandon Great Men Hagiography and Tell the Lives of Ordinary People

43 min read

Yale University

Architecture Is Shot Through with Justice: Who Designs, for Whom, Where — and Whose Lives the Buildings Shape

43 min read

Yale University

Red-Lining, Zoning and Gentrification Are Among the Many Building Practices That Raise Profound Issues of Justice

43 min read

Yale University

How Literature Portrays Characters and Society Raises Issues of Gender, Racial and Class Justice That Traditional Aesthetics Ignores

43 min read

Yale University

Is It Just That Only the Well-to-Do Can Afford the Symphony, the Opera and the Choral Society?

43 min read

Yale University

Does Injustice Lie Behind a Western Classical Canon with So Few Women and People of Color?

43 min read

Yale University

Physics and Mathematics Are Not About Justice, but How They Are Developed, Funded, Taught and Applied Is

43 min read

Yale University

Martin Luther King’s Call to Speak Up When Something Is Not Right Binds Scholars as Much as Citizens

43 min read

Yale University

Questions on the Pursuit of Justice in Research and Scholarship

43 min read

Yale University

Do Our Citations, Authorship and Mentoring Give Colleagues Their Due, Affirming and Cultivating Their Excellence?

43 min read

Yale University

Questions on the Pursuit of Justice in Academic Institutions

43 min read