"A Code of Ethics, Rules or Guidelines?"
Several years ago I was asked to present a report on "Professional Ethics for Pastors" to the task group on ethics of a nearby church...
"You will know them by their fruit"
How do you tell a righteous person from an unrighteous person? Jesus teaches in his "sermon on the mount" that we will know the righteous...
"Generation to Generation"
[A poem modified from one written in retrospect of a week-long gathering of three generational families] What do we learn this week...
Survivalist Ethics
Is there such a thing as "survivalist ethics?" News Friday of a possible terrorist attack being blunted by some passengers on a high...
"The Ethics of Being Human"
I always enjoyed having a "current events" segment in my classes on Christian ethics. During each class session individual students are...
"Family, Friends, and Community"
Often in ethics we emphasize the individual as the moral agent, but we lose the very important shaping role of community. Certainly an...
Grateful
Today I am grateful for the tiny and the small, For the many scribbled papers that dot my wall, For the hide-and-go seek with grandkids I...
What's It all About?
What is the goal of our Christian living? Certainly goal-oriented living, or teleological ethics, is very center to the heart of New...
Cultivating Character
One of the major approaches to ethics is character or virtue ethics. In this approach the most important person to work with is the...
A Self-differentiated person is more likely to be an ethical person
During the last six years I have been privileged to be part of the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center Clergy Clinic in Family Systems theory....
