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More on assisted migration
Here’s a Wired article from last year on assisted migration (or colonization) for species endangered by climate change, as discussed in the previous post. Apparently this is something that at le… more →
A Thinking Reed
More on assisted migration
Lee wrote 1 week ago: Here’s a Wired article from last year on assisted migration (or colonization) for species enda … more →
Noah, climate change, and "assisted migration"
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Lee wrote 2 weeks ago: In Celia Deane-Drummond and David Clough’s Creaturely Theology, Christopher Southgate expands … more →
Health care reform and Catholic social teaching
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Lee wrote 3 weeks ago: Commonweal has an interesting article on Catholic critics of health care reform. The principle of su … more →
Building a better farm animal?
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Lee wrote 3 weeks ago: Thanks to mizm of the fine blog Left at the Altar for alerting me to this paper by Adam Shriver that … more →
Vegetarianism without foundations
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Lee wrote 1 month ago: Freddie at the group blog the League of Ordinary Gentleman probes the philosophical underpinnings of … more →
Yes, Virginia, the pope believes in global warming
Lee wrote 1 month ago: Apparently some right-wing Catholics have interpreted the fact that the words “global warming … more →
The need for cranks
Lee wrote 1 month ago: I meant to flag this interesting article from the New Republic last week: “The Usefulness of C … more →
Creaturely theology
Lee wrote 2 months ago: Following on the heels of his Why Animal Suffering Matters, Andrew Linzey’s Creatures of the S … more →
Against threat inflation
Lee wrote 3 months ago: Stephen Walt and Matthew Yglesias both have smart posts on looking at climate change through a natio … more →
Health care info you can use
Lee wrote 3 months ago: Given the ratio of noise to light in the current health care debate (“death panels”!), i … more →
In defense of the ELCA sexuality proposals
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Lee wrote 3 months ago: Though the Episcopalians always get more press, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s b … more →
WASM 6: Concluding thoughts
Lee wrote 3 months ago: (See previous posts: 1|2|3|4|5) So, what has Linzey accomplished here? What I think his argument doe … more →
Market theodicy
Lee wrote 4 months ago: Economics as a religion: When critics of free markets point to instances of severe poverty, market s … more →
On killing innocents
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Lee wrote 4 months ago: Two links: Michael Jackson’s Death Means Little to Me McNamara’s Evil As I’ve poin … more →
Kinship and cultivation, Francis and Benedict
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Lee wrote 5 months ago: Catholic theologian Denis Edwards’ Ecology at the Heart of Faith provides a good model of enga … more →
Cognitive ethology, the Left, faith, and dominion
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Lee wrote 5 months ago: A long but worthwhile essay that to some extent recapitulates the argument made by John Gray in Stra … more →
Violence and social change
Lee wrote 5 months ago: I didn’t think I had anything to say on the murder of Dr. George Tiller, but one issue that ha … more →
Obama, Niebuhr, and progressive realism
Lee wrote 6 months ago: A good essay by theologian-historian Gary Dorrien at “The Immanent Frame”: today Niebuhr … more →
Religious liberty and SSM
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Lee wrote 6 months ago: Not sure I agree with all the conclusions, but this article from The Christian Century provides a lu … more →
