In A Nutshell People judge “kind liars” who give overly positive feedback as more moral than brutally honest truth-tellers, ...

While most of us value honesty, we consider those who skew reality to avoid hurting others to be more moral. Despite that, we prefer to hear the harsh truth when the feedback concerns us, according to ...

There is a big difference between factual statements and statements that express strong emotions or demands (Messerly, 2016). When you claim that something is a fact (for example, "Trees get their ...

When teaching my senior seminar at Hope College, I gave the assignment of writing a paper selecting one of two titles: “I am a Seeker of Truth” or “I am a Child of God.” I explained that these are not ...

Hicks, of Salem, is a Quaker and a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University. Richard Carr's thoughtful commentary "A fundamentally different view on morality" (Jan. 9) ought to have been titled "A ...

As a secondary school theology teacher, I rarely find a work in moral theology that balances academic rigor with the pastoral and pedagogical needs of high school students. But Dietrich von Hildebrand ...

Not long ago, we lost a voice who spent his life insisting that it did. Alasdair MacIntyre, the Scottish philosopher who gave us "After Virtue," died May 21 at the age of 96. He spent decades ...