Faithfulness in the ordinary

The approach here

Christian ethics is not a list of rules bolted onto a private faith. It grows out of who God is, what kind of creatures we are, and where history is going. So these essays reason from Scripture and the long tradition of Christian moral reflection, rather than from whichever position happens to be popular.

Three commitments shape the writing. First, charity: the strongest version of a view gets stated before it gets challenged. Second, honesty about difficulty — where faithful Christians have long disagreed, that is said plainly rather than smoothed over. Third, practicality, because ethics that never touches a calendar, a budget, or a conversation is not yet ethics.

Topics

• Work, vocation, and rest
• Money, generosity, and enough
• Truthfulness and speech, online and off
• Justice, mercy, and the vulnerable
• Power, politics, and the limits of both
• Life, the body, and technology