Category: Ethics in Public Life
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Hong Kong Lectures: Exploring Moral, Religious, and Medical Exemplarism
April 2025 took me to Hong Kong, where I had the incredible opportunity to deliver two lectures that sparked thought-provoking discussions and deepened my own understanding of exemplarist ethics. These talks, one for my friend Professor Carl Hildebrand’s Common Core course and the other at the HKU Medical School, offered unique insights into the way…
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Justice in Action, with Voice of Islam UK
This past Tuesday, I had the pleasure to appearing on the Breakfast Show, a live radio programme of the Voice of Islam. An initiative of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim community, the Breakfast Show “provides unique and fresh perspectives around current affairs and contemporary topics through the lens of Islam, evoking discussion from diverse viewpoints combined…
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Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and God
8 January 2024. This Christmas, I wrote an essay entitled “Creativity, artificial intelligence, and God” for a forthcoming edited volume on technology, religion, and the law. The volume has a working title of Emerging Technologies, Converging Theologies and will be part of Springer’s Law and Religion in Global Context book series. I must confess that…
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A bold interpretation: Should we admire the shrewd steward (Luke 16.1–9)?
10 May 2023. The latest issue of Theology features two articles — one by yours truly — that interrogate the parable of the shrewd steward. Professor Robin Gill, the journal editor, provides an overview: A newcomer to Theology, Dr Edward David, offers an account of the parable of the unjust steward in terms of moral exemplarism;…
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Should We Admire the Shrewd Steward (Luke 16:1-9)?
Moral exemplarism and Christian ethics The following paper was given at the 2022 annual conference of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics. You can download the full text of the paper through the button below. The paper will be published in the journal Theology in Spring/Summer 2023. Positive role models, or moral exemplars,…
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Updates: Journal of Church and State, and Developing a Christian Mind
Two exciting updates. My friend and co-author (Prof. Mark Lee) and I have a forthcoming article in OUP’s Journal of Church and State. “Religious Deviance and Asylum Medicine in the Second Great Awakening” explores the life and writings of Elizabeth T. Stone (b. 1811), a New England evangelical who was incarcerated by her family and…
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Article: Truth and Christian Ethics
Studies in Christian Ethics, the journal of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics, has just published a short article I wrote in response to Professor Mark Wynn’s essay, entitled ‘Truth and Christian Ethics: a Narratival Perspective’. Professor Wynn and I delivered these papers at the Society’s 2021 annual conference. Below, I have copied…
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Lecture: Should education be transformative? An Aristotelian critique
Last week, I gave a short paper on transformative learning theory at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. The event was part of an informal lecture series that brings together the Hall’s faculty, fellows, and students for evenings of discussion and conviviality. My paper was an edited version of a talk that I delivered in August for a…
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Essay: On wisdom and women
My conference paper on moral reasoning and the Old Testament Wisdom Literature is now available online. The essay was delivered, first, to the Oxford Scriptural Reasoning Group and, most recently, to the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University. The paper discusses four dimensions of biblical wisdom: its practical moral focus, its embeddedness within a…
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Radio: Fasting with the Voice of Islam UK
In this radio interview with the Voice of Islam UK, a London-based initiative of the global Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, I discuss the Christian practice of fasting. Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Matthew 4:4 I interpret Matthew 4, which…
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