(Editor’s Note: This post is the first of a series of three reflections on the 10-Year Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Be sure to check out the posts on Saturday and Sunday by Lorraine Cuddeback and John […]
Author: John P. Slattery
John P. Slattery is the Director of the Carl G. Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law at Duquesne University. He is also a consultant for the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, DC. An ethicist, theologian, and historian of science, Slattery works at the intersection of technology, science, religion, and racism. He is the author of the 2019 Faith and Science at Notre Dame and the editor of the 2020 Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences. His essays have appeared in Commonweal Magazine, Science, Religion Dispatches, and Daily Theology.
Foster-Adoption: The Weight of the Gospel
As you may have remembered from my previous posts on the subject, my wife and I have been in the process of adopting a child from foster care for the past 18 months. A few weeks ago, this […]
What did we expect? #BlackLivesMatter
What did we expect? What did we expect when we did not react as we should, when #BlackLivesMatter came and went in the public sphere, when most people–especially most white people–went back to work as […]
Why I Blog: Staying Connected to the Daily Life of Faith #DTCTS
It is a strange thing to transition from military-focused computer science to theology. Eleven years ago I finished my undergraduate work in computer science–with a focus on computer security—set to enter the US Air Force […]
The Church is Not Yet Dead: An Interview with Dr. Shannen Dee Williams
Over the last month, I have had the privilege of interviewing, via email, Dr. Shannen Dee Williams, an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Williams is currently working on the manuscript for her first […]
Between Walter Scott & David Brooks: The Problem of the Privileged Subject
On April 4, 2015, a man named Walter Scott was shot and killed by a police officer. This act of murder was caught on video by a cell-phone wielding bystander. This video, and this video alone, caused the arrest […]
The Eucharist is an Act of Community
One of the central tenets of the Christian tradition is the community of believers. We are not single individuals, struggling along in a vast sea of humanity. We are a community–a collection of people, sharing […]
Remember Trayvon Martin
Remember Trayvon Martin, 17, unarmed, who died 3 years ago today at the hands of a neighborhood watch captain with a gun. Remember Tamir Rice, 12, unarmed, holding a toy pellet gun, who died last November […]
Thank you, Lance Armstrong (an ode to liberation theology)
In the summer of 2004, Lance Armstrong was God. The Tour de France raged from July 2 to July 25 that year, and I watched every minute. I had just graduated from Air Force ROTC […]
Waiting Together and Waiting Alone
For the last 15 months, my wife and I have been waiting. Waiting, specifically, to adopt a child from the foster system in the State of Indiana. It should not have taken this long, but […]
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