Lesallan | October 21, 2025 Devotional: Violence, Justice, and Conscience The biblical witness places me in a persistent moral tension between divine justice and Christlike mercy; Genesis declares the gravity of taking human life because every person bears God’s image (Genesis 9:6, New International Version). When I reflect on Jesus’ Read more
Lesallan | October 18, 2025 Personal Journal Entry: Euthanasia Human life is a sacred gift from God that deserves protection and compassionate care from conception to natural death. The Christian objection to euthanasia is based on the belief that all individuals are made in God’s image, granting them intrinsic worth Read more
Lesallan Ohio Christian University PHL2100 Ethics (ONL25F3A) Professor Mark Godbold October 17, 2025 The Imago Dei and Compassionate Limits: A Christian Ethical Analysis of Euthanasia Euthanasia provokes sustained moral concern across clinical, legal, and theological domains because it directly engages questions about suffering, human dignity, and the permissible limits of Read more
Lesallan | October 16, 2025 Call to Completeness Matthew 5:43–48 (NIV) frames a startling invitation: to love not only those who love us but also our enemies, to pray for those who persecute us, and to emulate the impartial generosity of our Father who sends sun and rain to all. Read more
Lesallan | October 16, 2025 Critical Thinking and Ethics Critical thinking and ethics are interrelated practices that inform our evaluation of information, assessment of actions, and responsible decision-making in complex situations. Drawing on principles from Weston (2011) and incorporating a contemporary understanding of the connection between critical thinking and moral Read more
Lesallan | October 15, 2025 Between Relief and Restraint: Ethical Choices at Life’s End I approached this ethical scenario from a personal perspective, guided primarily by the principles of principlism—respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice—while also integrating a virtue-ethical sensibility rooted in compassion, fidelity, and stewardship. These commitments influence Read more
Religion and ethics are distinct yet deeply intertwined ways humans make sense of right and wrong. Religion supplies a narrative framework—stories, scriptures, rituals, and a vision of ultimate reality—that shapes moral imagination, defines virtues, and names obligations. Ethics supplies methods for clarifying duties, weighing competing goods, and translating moral insight Read more
Lesallan | October 7, 2025 Faith, Ethics, and Moral Formation: A Personal Reflection by Lesallan Bostron My understanding is that religion and ethics are distinct but deeply interconnected domains. Religion provides a narrative, vocabulary, and normative commitments that shape moral imagination and offer a foundation for moral duties, virtues, and Read more
Lesallan | October 7, 2025 Faith, Ethics, and Moral Formation: A Personal Reflection by Lesallan Bostron My understanding is that religion and ethics are distinct but deeply interconnected domains. Religion provides a narrative, vocabulary, and normative commitments that shape moral imagination and offer a foundation for moral duties, virtues, and Read more
Lesallan Bostron Ohio Christian UniversityProfessor Mark GodboldOctober 2, 2025 A Theological Middle Way: Generalism Compared with Antinomianism and SituationalismLesallan BostronOhio Christian UniversityProfessor Mark GodboldOctober 2, 2025 A Theological Middle Way: Generalism Compared with Antinomianism and Situationalism This paper explains three nonabsolutist ethical systems—antinomianism, situationalism, and generalism—as presented in Geisler (2010) Read more