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My Coronavirus Post

March 17, 2020 by Randal

At times of the pandemic, some people shelter in their homes in immobilizing fear, stockpile (and then price gouge) hand sanitizer, shake hands indiscriminately with the elderly, and/or buy an extra gun. But others reach out to fearful neighbors to see how they can help, they give an extra bottle of hand sanitizer to a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: coronavirus, ethics, virtue

There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to commit

December 2, 2017 by Randal

Eighteen years ago when I was doing my PhD in England I knew a Christian theologian who was pursuing a doctorate with a focus on Christian ethics. (Let’s call him Don.) One day when I was hanging out with Don, he showed me an ethics book he had stolen from a library in continental Europe. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: character formation, Escape from nihilism, ethics, motivated reasoning, virtue

Patience: A Sermon

July 27, 2015 by Randal

In this sermon (preached at Greenfield Community Church on July 26th), I explore the spiritual fruit of patience. It is a virtue with which I have little first hand acquaintance, so I had to do some research first. As with all my sermons, there are several additional points that I would like to have discussed, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, patience, sanctification, sermon, spiritual fruit, virtue

If There Is No God, Then Everything Is Permitted: A Reader’s Journey Through God or Godless (Part 5)

May 20, 2015 by Randal

In the third debate in God or Godless Loftus and I talk about moral value and moral accountability. The title is borrowed from Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov so that what it lacks in precision it makes up for in literary and historical significance. My opening statement recounts a serial killer entering retirement after a successful “career” […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, atheism, ethics, God or Godless, John Loftus, metaethics, morality, virtue

Could Jesus perform moral atrocities?

March 15, 2013 by Randal

In the essay “If it’s okay for God to do something, then is it okay for him to command it?” I provided a response to the following question from Vincent: “Would you agree or disagree with the proposition that if it’s morally OK for God to do something, then it’s OK for Him to command […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, God, Jesus, moral atrocities, morality, virtue

Is the non-practicing pedophile better than the rest of us?

April 17, 2011 by Randal

Three rock climbers are preparing for an ascent of El Capitain, that glorious three thousand foot rock face in Yosemite National Park. Climber 1 is able of body and mind. Climber 2 however has only one arm. And climber 3 has acrophobia, a fear of heights. When the three successfully complete their ascent, the accolades […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: goodnss, morality, virtue

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