Ron Belgau

In his treatise  On Spiritual Friendship ,  Aelred of Rievaulx, a 12th-century Cistercian abbot, insists that we need to test our beliefs about friendship with Scripture. The treatise is a series of dialogues in which three monks join Aelred to examine their ideas about friendship in . . . . Continue Reading »

A while back, a student in my philosophy of religion class turned in a paper which stated that, in  The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values , Sam Harris argued that morality was based on scientific discoveries about the order God had put into the world at the Creation. I . . . . Continue Reading »

In a  recent post , Wesley Hill discusses the apparent tension between the Christian ideal of universal, unconditional love and the particularity of friendship, and cites Samuel Johnson’s worry that “All friendship is preferring the interest of a friend, to the neglect, or, . . . . Continue Reading »