When I look at our country and compare it to the nation of my childhood, it is shocking in many ways. I don’t remember our country or our Congress being divided. I certainly don’t remember people ...

"A person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behavior" -- the dictionary definition of "conscience." Whenever I make the common-sense argument that people need to ...

Our ambition should take a back seat to our conscience. The late pastor Eugene Peterson, in a letter to his son, also a pastor, wrote that the primary problem for the Christian leader is to take ...

BOSTON -- -- To begin with, I don't believe that anyone should be compelled to do work he or she regards as unethical. History is full of heroes who rebelliously followed their consciences. It's also ...

These conscience-based accounts are exceedingly popular among many people, academics and non-academics alike, perhaps owing to its intuitive appeal: it certainly feels like we don’t do certain things ...

THE old humanity,” writes an historian of Islam, “had been killed by the new religion.” This is what always happens. True morality, the adepts of each religion tell us, is dependent on their ...

As inspired as the Constitution is, the Founding Fathers repeatedly declared that it would only be effective in preserving freedom if the people it governs are a moral and religious people. But who ...

THE Church in any civil society has a dual reality. She conceives hersell to be in a kingdom not of this world, and she keeps her eyes on the heavenly Jerusalem. And yet, precisely because she insists ...