Growing up in a small town is useful because people can disagree politically, and it doesn’t matter all that much. When you spend your childhood with the same couple of people and play touch football together and Nintendo 64 and have all these hours of friendship and teasing each other and calling names and fist-fighting, […]
Arguing Religion In a College Course (Plus a Response to Dr. Jerry Walls’s Strongest Argument Against Catholicism)
I recently had the opportunity to present my conversion to Catholicism in a college course called Faith and Doubt, while engaging Dr. Jerry Walls on what he calls his Strongest Argument Against Catholicism. The presentation, however, was asymmetric; predominantly, I discussed what caused me to move from being non-religious to eventually Catholic – first to […]
Gaven Kerr on Human Dignity and Contemporary Life Issues
Dr. Gaven Kerr returns to the Pat Flynn show to discuss how he’s been engaging as a public intellectual in Ireland on contemporary life issues, especially and most recently euthanasia. The conversation begins by exploring how human dignity is grounded and what implications follow from that account regarding abortion and euthanasia. We then discuss arguments […]
Most of My Interviews From This Past Year (or So)
For anybody who (oddly enough) wants to hear even more of my annoying voice, here’s a roundup of some of the TV/radio/podcast interviews I’ve conducted this past year or so, on topics ranging form philosophy to theology, fitness, business, and more. Note: I haven’t included all recent interviews, so if I forgot to mention one […]
When Moral Intuitions Clash || Can You Kill a Dying Person Being Tortured?
Somebody wrote to my wife Christine (she runs a podcast which I occasionally appear on) asking me why it wouldn’t be morally permissible to kill somebody (say, slip them a poison pill) if they are 1) dying of cancer and 2) simultaneously being tortured by a Chinese prison guard. They mentioned how they thought it […]