by joelabrown | Nov 16, 2017 | Enhancing Life, November-December 2017, Religious Ethics
Professor William Schweiker (U. of Chicago) kicks off a new extended issue of the Forum with his essay, “Enhancing Life and the Forms of Freedom.” The November-December issue features the Enhancing Life Project, which takes aim at addressing one of the...
by joelabrown | Oct 30, 2017 | October 2017, Race and Religion, Religion and Politics, Religious Ethics, Scholars' Roundtable, Theology
The third post in our October issue of the Forum comes from Brandy Daniels (University of Virginia), a religious leader and scholar who participated alongside other clergy and religious leaders in the Charlottesville counter-protests. In this essay, Daniels considers...
by joelabrown | Sep 19, 2017 | American religious history, Healthcare, Religion and Politics, Religious Ethics, Scholars' Roundtable, September 2017
Philippa Koch (PhD ’16) joins our scholars’ roundtable on healthcare and religion with her essay, “‘The seeds of compassion and duty’: An Early Americanist Take on Healthcare.” The September issue of the Forum explores the place of...
by joelabrown | Jun 7, 2017 | Featured Books, May 2017, Religious Ethics, Review, Uncategorized
For the final post in this month’s issue of the Forum, Richard B. Miller (University of Chicago) responds to the six scholars who commented throughout the month on different chapters of his book, Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and...
by joelabrown | Jun 4, 2017 | Featured Books, May 2017, Religious Ethics, Review
Luke Bretherton (Duke Divinity School) responds to Divinity School Professor Richard B. Miller’s tenth chapter, “Religion, Public Reason, and the Morality of Democratic Authority,” in Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and...
by joelabrown | Jun 1, 2017 | Featured Books, May 2017, Religious Ethics, Review, Uncategorized
David Gottlieb (University of Chicago) responds to Divinity School Professor Richard B. Miller’s ninth chapter, “The Moral and Political Burdens of Memory,” in Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture (Columbia University...