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Category Archives: Ethics
The De-Condensation of Humanity
The Ribbonfarm blog has always been one of my preferred locations for imaginative societal analysis online. What Ribbonfarm offers, perhaps more than any other blog out there, is close attention to calibrating the lenses through which we can analyse the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Sex and Sexuality, Society
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A Crisis of Discourse—Part 2: A Problem of Gender
An Elephant in the Room In my previous post (which I have renamed so that this flows more clearly from it), I observed a growing crisis for progressivism, as people across the political spectrum are rejecting its form of discourse. … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Sex and Sexuality, Society
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Can Social Justice Be Distinguished From Social Justice Ideology?
In response to my recent posts, a couple of commentators were concerned that the exact target of my criticisms was unclear, and that some readers might be left with the impression that I was challenging the cause of social justice … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Ethics, Politics, Society, Theological
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Podcast: Richard Hooker
For some time I’ve wanted to discuss Richard Hooker on the podcast, not least because we seldom speak about the continuing importance of figures from church history on Mere Fidelity. This week, while the other crew members were away, I … Continue reading
Posted in Church History, Controversies, Culture, Ethics, Podcasts, Politics, Scripture, Society, The Church, Theological
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In Which A Man Explains Things
The following is a comment I posted on an online friend’s blog. I posted a comment pushing back against the idea that Trump supporters were largely driven by misogyny and racism, suggesting that a more charitable and optimistic construction of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Politics, Society
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Further Thoughts: How Social Justice Ideology Fuels Racism and Sexism
The video above comes with a huge NSFW warning. However, it is a very important window into the deeply unsettling and unpleasant phenomenon of anti-social justice shamelessness, which has primarily arisen as an anarchic response to social justice’s overreach. The … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Politics, Society
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How Social Justice Ideology Gave Us Donald Trump
I didn’t sleep at all last night. As the election results came in, I had a familiar feeling of growing concern, the same feeling I had experienced watching the results of Brexit. However, this time around, I was more than … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Economics, Ethics, Politics, Society, Theological
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Ten Questions Post over on the Huffington Post
A new version of my ten questions post from yesterday has just been published over on the Huffington Post (see the original post here).
Posted in Ethics, Guest Post, Politics
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The Social Crisis of Distrust and Untruth in America and Evangelicalism
In the second of the Republican presidential debates, the issue of vaccines was raised. Donald Trump presented an anecdotal case for an association between vaccines and autism, brashly dismissing the general medical consensus on the matter. Repeating claims he had … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Ethics, Politics, Sex and Sexuality, Society, The Church, Theological
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Ten Questions to Ask Before Voting for Donald Trump Tomorrow
If you are considering casting your vote for Donald Trump tomorrow, you have almost certainly had quite enough of listening to his critics, with their many wild claims and accusations. Fear not, within this post I am not asking you … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Ethics, Politics, Society
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Alastair's Adversaria 