Tag: sociology

  • Informed ethics

    Informed ethics

    A man saw the title of the book I was reading with my morning coffee. It was something religious-sounding, so he engaged me about faith. Eventually he asked what I did, and I said I teach at the nearby Christian university. I teach sociology. “Oh, sociology?” he said. “Then you can’t really be a Christian.”…

  • Yearning for Home

    “By embracing what they had most wanted to avoid they gained what their hearts yearned for” – Yearning for Home   The title captured my attention first. Wandering through the stacks of the library, getting distracted from my research focus by the section on peacebuilding with its fascinating topics and authors, Yearning for Home in…