I’ve had the Supertramp song “Give a Little Bit” running through my head this morning, and for good reason. After all, it is Giving Tuesday. So, here’s the pitch: if you have benefited from my blog, tweets, YouTube videos, and/or books, I am asking you to consider giving. But I’m not asking you to give […]
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Effective Altruism and the Christian: A Conversation with Joshua Parikh
Last week I posted a review of Peter Singer’s 2015 book The Most Good You Can Do in which Singer discusses the concept of effective altruism. This article was the catalyst for several conversations including, the following exchange with Christian philosopher Joshua Parikh. Josh is a student at Oxford who just completed an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, […]
What Christians (and everyone else) can learn from Peter Singer: A Review of The Most Good You Can Do
Peter Singer. The Most Good You Can Do. Yale University Press, 2015. When I was a kid I once endured the indignity of traipsing door-to-door selling raffle tickets for my school. Most neighbors obligingly purchased a ticket for a prize they didn’t really want (an old donated car). But after listening to my sales pitch, one […]
