Ethics

Christian Realism and the Black Boxes of AI-Enabled Warfare

In Exodus, God spoke through the oracles of Urim and Thummim. Today, we risk treating AI as a similar black box: something from which information proceeds, but whose source cannot be known

From Where Do Human Rights Come?: Michael Perry and the Religious Question 

Without a theological foundation, the idea of intrinsic human rights is incoherent

Nuclear Weapons: A Game of Possession and Numbers 

How many nuclear weapons ought to exist? Zero? Dozens? Hundreds? Counter-intuitive as it is, the world is safer when the great powers of the world are held back by mutually assured destruction

Tolkien, Technology, and Geopolitics 

While gene-editing and all-seeing orbs belonged to the realm of fantasy in Tolkien’s own time, today these technologies have the capacity to fundamentally reshape societies and the global order of nations

Calvin, Theocracy, and Holy War 

Without a principled separation between spiritual and civil authority, as Calvin envisioned, we risk forsaking the restraint and representative justice that anchor a free and ordered society

Optimizing Children is Nothing New

The advent of technologies allowing parents to select embryos with superior genetics is just the latest step down the road to the total commodification of life

Putting Natural Law to Work: Review of Hopeful Realism

A trio of Protestant Christian political science professors argue that evangelicals should be more aware of and attuned to the natural law tradition

How Competing Hindu Theologies Drove India’s Nuclear Decision Making—In Opposite Directions 

Indian history shows that religious idealism can be just as influential a motivation for and against nuclear proliferation as realist calculations.

To the Contrary: John Brown Was Not a Christian Nationalist

John Brown was no Christian nationalist

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