The trillion-dollar question

News that the world has seen the arrival of its first trillionaire captures public attention because it triggers shock and envy, and pushes familiar questions about wealth into unfamiliar territory. Human societies have always contained rich and poor, merchants and labourers, rulers and subjects. Yet a personal fortune measured in trillions of dollars represents wealth …

What is Christian ethics?

Ethics is the disciplined study of how human beings ought to live. It asks enduring questions about right and wrong, justice and injustice, virtue and vice, duty and responsibility. More profoundly, ethics seeks to understand what constitutes a good life and what kind of persons and communities we should aspire to become. While every culture …

Religious perspectives on embryo donation

My co-authored paper, "Religious perspectives on embryo donation and research," has been published in Clinical Ethics, the journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Well done to the team and contributors in whatย turned out to be aย laborious process! Here's the abstract: The success of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) worldwide has led to an accumulation of …