What is truth? In a special edition of The Moral Maze, we discuss perhaps the most significant question in all of human thought. It sits at the foundation of how we understand reality, and how we ...

There is a big difference between factual statements and statements that express strong emotions or demands (Messerly, 2016). When you claim that something is a fact (for example, "Trees get their ...

"Isn't all morality relative?" I often get this question from students, as there seems to be a fairly pervasive acceptance of moral relativism in much of our culture these days. However, the answer to ...

I was pleased that my Oct. 10 opinion piece was used by Lou Matz’s University of the Pacific philosophy class to generate discussion on the morality of abortion, a topic introduced in his Moral ...

Hicks, of Salem, is a Quaker and a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University. Richard Carr's thoughtful commentary "A fundamentally different view on morality" (Jan. 9) ought to have been titled "A ...

Mr. Brown (Abortion at a crossroads, Oct. 10), I remember being a sassy teenager in the 1970s insisting to my father that abortion was acceptable. Then I read a letter to the editor by a local pastor ...

When teaching my senior seminar at Hope College, I gave the assignment of writing a paper selecting one of two titles: “I am a Seeker of Truth” or “I am a Child of God.” I explained that these are not ...

I sometimes ask my students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have been abolitionists. They all ...

Not long ago, we lost a voice who spent his life insisting that it did. Alasdair MacIntyre, the Scottish philosopher who gave us "After Virtue," died May 21 at the age of 96. He spent decades ...