Religion | Ethics | Social Trust | Theology
Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2022
Social trust is the basic resource for our institutions and is notably maintained by leaders who have what I call a vulnerable style and a vigilant capacity to recognize ethical challenges on the horizon. The essay follows five steps: a meditation on social trust, an introduction to the notion of style, and a proposal for a vulnerable style so as to become collectively capacious for recognition. Then it turns to the two institutions under examination at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics (SCE): the church and the academy. The essay examines both the church on racial justice through exemplars of vulnerable style and the academy on needed recognition of the precarity of our community colleges. So as to advance an interest in diversifying our styles of communicating within the SCE, the essay provides a meditation, an academic account, an academic proposal, a narrative, and a case.
University Ethics in a Time of Threat to Democracy and in Need of Social Trust
Humanitas, 2024
The essay highlights that though universities teach every field of professional ethics (for physicians, nurses, business people, finance, journalism, etc.) the university does not teach any courses for administrators or
Subject: University Ethics, Adjunct Faculty, Ethics, Social Trust.
Restoring Social Trust
From Populism to Synodality
Theological Studies, 2023
Social trust has been compromised locally, nationally, and globally, and very recently more and more social scientists, ethicists, theologians, and civic leaders have highlighted its necessity for the function of social
Subject: Religion, Ethics, Social Trust, Theology.