An American child is dying at home. The parents are members of a Christian sect that does not believe in modern medicine. They pray fervently but the child grows worse and dies. "It was God's will," ...

“Vertical morality in Christianity is the idea that our ethics and behaviors have a duty to please God alone. We get our ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. How did our society get the notion that church-goers or religious people that do bizarre wrong ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether a reader has obligations to homophobic family members. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I grew up in Idaho in a tight-knit family following the firebrand tenets of ...