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  • June 20, 2017
    On moral purity: "If the sins that concern you most are sins you know you will never commit..."

    This article considers the concerns and dilemmas involved in taking ethical positions, engaging politically, and being theologically responsible and responsive.

  • June 1, 2013
    From privatized morality to ethical living

    In the Daily Telegraph today (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/10092592/Same-sex-marriage.html) 'religious' leaders have seemingly united to protest this government's equal marriage legislation.

  • April 14, 2012
    Discussing morality fruitfully

    This morning (14 April 2012) I will be appearing on BBC Radio Scotland's Saturday AM news programme at around 8.50am to discuss the origins and shape of morality with secular humanist scientist Profes

  • February 2, 2012
    Welfare politics: A 'morally disabled' government

    Disabled actor, writer and comedian Francesca Martinez, who has been outspoken in support of those challenging the impact on vulnerable people of the Welfare Reform Bill (WRB), put the matter powerfully and poignantly on the This Week TV politics show: the government, she said, is "morally disabled" in its approach to these issues and to the human effect of its policies.

  • October 18, 2010
    A theological iconoclast on 'Start the Week'

    BBC Radio 4's stimulating 'Start the Week' programme, hosted by Andrew Marr, ran a special edition this morning (18 October 2010) discussing morality, religion and politics. It featured irascible and creative US theologian Stanley Hauerwas.

  • February 20, 2010
    Citizen ethics in a time of crisis

    Ethics. Ah yes, a county just outside London, the old joke goes. But seriously, ethical discussion in Britain is remarkably thin at the moment. That's why a new initiative to stimulate proper debate, launched today, has the potential to be so refreshing.

  • June 28, 2009
    Cultivating tough gratitude

    Public life demands ‘tough’ corporate attributes rather than what it labels ‘soft’ personal ones – like love and gratitude. Simon Barrow argues that the communal cultivation of loving relation is needed to help redirect the official anonymity of the social order.

  • April 29, 2009
    Beyond cultural timidity and moral confusion

    Conformity and concern about image are the enemies of truth, says Jill Segger. Yet they are everywhere in our testosterone-driven culture. Purity of heart enables us to respond to the unconventional or unexpected with integrity, as well as feeding clear-sighted conscience.

  • April 14, 2009
    Darwin and Philosophy

    Speakers: Dr Tim Lewens, Professor David Papineau
    Chair: Dr Simon Glendinning

  • June 26, 2008
    Moral practice and non-belief

    Atheists are often criticising the ethics of religious belief, says Giles Fraser. But do they base their own moral practice too much on what they are against?