Ethics Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/ethics/ Mon, 25 May 2026 02:24:03 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/brianharrisauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-brianharrisauthor-favicon-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ethics Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/ethics/ 32 32 93416650 Making Virtue Virtuous Again… https://brianharrisauthor.com/making-virtue-virtuous-again/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/making-virtue-virtuous-again/#respond Sat, 23 May 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=6442 post-Christian, pre-Christian, post post-Christian, Good Samaritan, ethics, global ethics, virtue, common good, common grace, cheap grace, costly grace, moral ambition, solutions journalism, Prayer of St Francis, Make me an instrument of your peace,

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/making-virtue-virtuous-again/feed/ 0 6442 Purpose over Preference, and Noting the Difference… https://brianharrisauthor.com/purpose-over-preference-and-noting-the-difference/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/purpose-over-preference-and-noting-the-difference/#comments Sat, 24 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4997 Ever since the phenomenal success of Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life, conversations about the importance of purpose have abounded. Of course we are now a little less enthusiastic about being “driven” and are alert to the dangers of driven leaders and workplaces. Too often they birth burnout, and can subtly justify the abuse of […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/purpose-over-preference-and-noting-the-difference/feed/ 2 4997 Our Deepest Regrets: To the Judas within… https://brianharrisauthor.com/our-deepest-regrets-to-the-judas-within/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/our-deepest-regrets-to-the-judas-within/#comments Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4947 I get to preach on Judas Iscariot this week. Yup – I drew the short straw. Sure, someone has to do it, but how do you inspire a congregation with someone who is more infamous than Hitler? “With great difficulty”, I hear you reply – and fair enough. Jonathan Sacks has rightly noted that the […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/taking-steps-towards-radical-honesty/feed/ 10 4869 With a stake in the heart – learning from the past https://brianharrisauthor.com/with-a-stake-in-the-heart-learning-from-the-past/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/with-a-stake-in-the-heart-learning-from-the-past/#comments Sat, 13 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4625 I’m taking today’s blog in a somewhat different direction, and a bit of a warning is appropriate. I will be looking at some historic Christian responses to suicide, and what we can learn from them. While it is not meant to be, it could be triggering for some, and if that’s you, give this post […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/with-a-stake-in-the-heart-learning-from-the-past/feed/ 8 4625 Asking Questions Like Jesus… https://brianharrisauthor.com/asking-questions-like-jesus/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/asking-questions-like-jesus/#comments Sat, 02 Dec 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4581 Don’t know if you were ever caught up in the WWJD quest – that’s “what would Jesus do” if the initials don’t immediately speak to you. It’s a good question, and it’s only possible to answer it if we look seriously at the WDJD query – what did Jesus do? When it comes to what […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/asking-questions-like-jesus/feed/ 4 4581 When Church is Beautiful… https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-church-is-beautiful/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-church-is-beautiful/#comments Sat, 04 Nov 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4535 I don’t know if you have ever left a church service thinking, “Wow – that was beautiful – really beautiful.” Given the bad press the church often gets, I can imagine some of the cynical comments that could be forming, but why not put them on hold, and listen to the experience I’ve had the […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-church-is-beautiful/feed/ 5 4535 Then I remember, death comes before the rolling away of the stone https://brianharrisauthor.com/then-i-remember-death-comes-before-the-rolling-away-of-the-stone/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/then-i-remember-death-comes-before-the-rolling-away-of-the-stone/#comments Sat, 08 Jul 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4371 It was a throwaway line in a talk by a speaker whose name I have now forgotten: “We feel more moral, more right, more cheaply than ever before.” It was a comment on the shrill nature of much public discourse, and how easily we feel moral because we have expressed a noble sentiment, though expressing […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/then-i-remember-death-comes-before-the-rolling-away-of-the-stone/feed/ 8 4371 When Leaders Fall… https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-leaders-fall/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-leaders-fall/#comments Sat, 01 Jul 2023 23:43:58 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4359 To be clear, this post isn’t a reaction to some new scandal and I’m not making any veiled references to some unsavoury incident soon to shock and dismay the Christian community. It is true that there have been so many moral failures that we should be disturbed – but even if you immediately attach a […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-leaders-fall/feed/ 2 4359 Just because it’s Christmas (change the world) https://brianharrisauthor.com/just-because-its-christmas-change-the-world/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/just-because-its-christmas-change-the-world/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4072 Just because it’s Christmas a whole lot of things are going to happen. Many people will double (or treble) their calorie intake. A phenomenal number of gifts will be exchanged. Some will be greatly treasured, others will provoke a startled “Why would you think I would want that?”; several are likely to be in the […]

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