A random thought to ponder over your lunch . . . Integrity is when what you say and what you do and what you think and what you believe are all in agreement with each other. Pass It On! Tweet Email More Print Share on Tumblr WhatsApp #integrity #morality #thoughts

Random thoughts to ponder during your lunch break . . . There are many worse things than death. Pass It On! Tweet Email More Print Share on Tumblr WhatsApp #morality #randomthoughts #thoughts

So, I started telling y’all about an interesting article on what research can tell us about raising moral kids. Today’s take-away from that article has to do with the role of positive re-enforcement in creating moral children. But first, a quick word about positive re-enforcement. Back when I was in college, in the very first education class I took, the very first lesson we got on classroom management was this: punishment is the least effective tool in your disciplinary toolb

I thought this was a great article in the NYT about what researchers have to say about raising moral kids. A lot of it is stuff we all know is true (but hope we can find a way around). So it’s interesting to learn that some of our old parenting gems aren’t just theoretically true, but that they’ve been proven true as well. Which is particularly comforting for some of us who went against the grain, did these things and discovered that raising a good person doesn’t automaticall

So . . . heard any good exegesis lately? What’s an exegesis, you ask? (Or maybe you don’t ask. Too bad. I’m going to tell you anyways.) Exegesis is simply the practice of explaining a section of text from the bible. So, a lot of sermons include exegesis because they start with the text and then offer an explanation as to their meaning. A good exegesis is a thing to make the heart sing. My favorite are the ones that show you something in the text you never noticed or understoo

There are several problems with situational ethics.  First of all, how do we know what the right thing to do is?  What are the standards?  Do we value justice higher than mercy?  Personal autonomy higher than the good of the community?  Situational ethics also struggles with the fact that sometimes the same actions are morally different.  So at my son’s school, it is considered sexual harassment to ask someone for a hug.  Why?  Because there are times when it may be sexual ha

story in the Chicago Tribune about scientists who have figured out how to get a computer to “read” brain scans to figure out which picture out of several choices a person has viewed.  This is considered one of the first steps towards eventually figuring out how the brain works, which I suppose if good.  However, it could also the be the first step towards creating machines able to mind read, which I think is creepy. What I find both worrying and fascinating about these sort o