The moralistic approach to filmmaking
Movies that are explicitly Christian are often moralistic and preachy, with characters that are stereotyped and idealized. As such, they often don’t display the gritty conflict between sin and grace...
View ArticleMoralism of the right & moralism of the left
United Methodists are considering whether or not to have an amicable split, so as to accommodate both sides of the moral debates that the denomination is struggling with. As I know from personal and...
View ArticleThe new moralism of the Supreme Court
Stanley Fish is a postmodernist scholar of the highest rank, but his conclusions are not always what his fellow academics expect. A professor both of literature and of law, Fish explains how, in...
View ArticleMoral relativism gives way to a new moralism
Moral relativism is over. Moral absolutes are back. The problem is, these are new moral absolutes, with little connection to traditional objective morality. And yet because the new moralism is...
View ArticleWhy Secularists Have Problems with Forgiveness
There is currently no real concept for forgiveness in the secular world, no mechanism for atonement or redemption.
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