Sacredness of Life | David P Gushee

Ethicists Without Borders Issues Statement on Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine

Christianity and Politics, Peacemaking, Sacredness of Life / By David Gushee

Ethicists without Borders is a Facebook group spearheaded by the distinguished Christian ethicist Tobias Winright of St. Louis University. This group has just released the statement below. I am a signatory. Note the following elements: This statement calls what is going on by its right name — not vague worries about “the conflict in Ukraine,” …

Ethicists Without Borders Issues Statement on Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine

Health Care Crises Reveal Our Nation’s Character Flaws

Christianity and Politics, Justice, Sacredness of Life, Suffering / By David Gushee

This is a column about crises and injustices in the health care system in America. I interpret these crises and injustices as an indictment on the character and the governance of this country. What follows is inspired by hard personal experience but relevant to all who have ears to hear. I make the following five claims: …

Health Care Crises Reveal Our Nation’s Character Flaws

Ancient painting of Jesus and the nativity

Christ Came to Make Us Truly Human: Social Ethics and the Image of Christ

Christian Ethics, Jesus, Justice, Sacredness of Life / By David Gushee

Dietrich Bonhoeffer always brings me up short when he emphasizes the indicative rather than imperative voice in Paul’s thought and in Christian ethics more broadly. For example, in terms of Bonhoeffer’s work on image Christology, he emphasizes that the work of Christ in restoring the image of God in humanity is an accomplished fact, a reality …

Christ Came to Make Us Truly Human: Social Ethics and the Image of Christ

Christ Came to Make Us Truly Human: Human Sinfulness and the Image of God

Christian Ethics, Jesus, Sacredness of Life / By David Gushee

Advent is upon us, and in my house, at least, we are already awash in Christmas decorations, music and movies. The peppermint bark candy is already on hand. The Christmas plates, cups and glasses are out. Our tree was up by Nov. 29! My wife, Jeanie, does Christmas right. At Catholic Mass on the first Sunday of …

Christ Came to Make Us Truly Human: Human Sinfulness and the Image of God

Ethics at the end of life: Which moral vision shall govern at the end of life?

Sacredness of Life / By David Gushee

This is the final in a four-part series on ethics at the end of life. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had this to say about the end of life: Why, aside from the demands of religion, (is it) more praiseworthy for…
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Ethics at the end of life: The ultimate ethical issue is whether we wait for death

Sacredness of Life / By David Gushee

This is the third in a four-part series on ethics at the end of life. The ultimate ethical issue at the end of life is whether we wait for death or instead hasten it. A massive and sometimes confusing vocabulary…
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Ethics at the end of life: The first ethical issue is not who decides but who accompanies

Sacredness of Life / By David Gushee

This is the second in a four-part series. Secular Western medical ethics tends to be principlist and procedural. Two crucial core principles in medical ethics are autonomy and informed consent. The affected persons (often shorthanded as “patients,” alt…

Ethics at the end of life: How medicine and technology have changed the context of dying

Sacredness of Life / By David Gushee

As the school year ends and I try to process the many agonies of the annus horribilus COVID year of 2020-21, I will remember many deaths, but most especially the death of my father in late December 2020. These posts,…
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