The contemporary Church suffers from the same strange malady that is afflicting all of contemporary society: the denial of objective moral truth. There is also an almost Promethean trust in the human ...

This is Part 2 of a series on moral relativism. The previous article can be found here. Lack of virtue. Moral relativism is based on individual preferences. Exactly who would do the nominating who for ...

The world is increasingly embracing diversity — religious, cultural, and political diversity, for example. Embracing diversity means being more tolerant to differences between individuals and groups, ...

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, soon to be elected Pope Benedict XVI, memorably warned of a looming "dictatorship of relativism" in 2005, he articulated what many conservative Catholics had long ...

Bart Ehrman has built a career challenging Christianity. A now-retired professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a prolific author on the New Testament and ...

Re “What We Bush Voters Share: In God We Trust,” Commentary, Nov. 8: David Klinghoffer is wrong in claiming that morality is “objective” because it comes from God. Every religious moral tradition ...

Consider two cases: Situation A, and Situation B. In both, someone decides to kill her hated enemy. She finds the weapon of choice. She tracks her target’s movements. She finds the perfect moment, ...

The world is increasingly embracing diversity—religious, cultural, and political diversity, for example. Embracing diversity means being more tolerant to differences between individuals and groups, ...

The winning program was devised by a Canadian, Anatole Rapoport, and was called Tit-for-Tat. It was dazzlingly simple: it began by cooperating, and then repeated the last move of its opponent. It ...