In this edition of the Reading Wheel Review, Dr. Jordan Ballor, executive director of First Liberty’s Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy, interviews Dr. Melissa Moschella, professor of the practice of philosophy at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. They discuss Dr. Moschella’s recent
As part of his polemic in setting Christianity over against its surrounding classical culture, the second-century Christian apologist Tertullian famously asked “what has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” We might very well in our own day ask an analogous question, setting Paris or Rome against Washington, London, or Glasgow as
Attending a conference some years ago, I passed by Towson, Maryland’s Barnes & Noble. Taped to the front door was a paper advertising an upcoming in-store performance by the band Sister Hazel. A child of the 1990s, I remembered when their hit song “All For You” had dominated the airwaves.
I remember my first official introduction to moral philosophy as a freshman at Harvard. I was taking Ethics and International Relations, cotaught by the eminent professors Stanley Hoffmann and J. Bryan Hehir. Early in the course we were taught various moral theories we would then use to analyze ethical issues
