Kevin, who I’ve known since before there was really an Internet, sent along this article, which deals with what the present owes to the future. It’s an interesting article, and raises a lot of important questions for how we think morally about our present actions with respect to future generations, but this approach has some important limitations as well.
This was recorded early last week as our family was entering the throes of COVID1, and since then, the article discussed here has been taken up several places, including here and here—kudos to Kevin for being ahead of the curve!
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We’re all doing much better now: thanks to those who reached out! I would ask your prayers for my dear friend, Brandon, who is undergoing treatment for cancer. Brandon is one of the most true people I know, a man in whom there is no bull, and an engine of the just love of God. My favorite picture of Brandon comes from several years ago, when he appears in a clerical collar at a Black Lives Matter rally, protecting a man who was protesting the rallies. Brandon was there in support of the rally, and embodied the Good Samaritan unexpectedly. That picture, to me, sums up Brandon: strong, without fear, just, and direct. My second favorite picture is from the night when he, I, and two of our Religion PhD cohort friends won trivia night at the pub with our team, the TheoHuxtables. But that’s a different story.
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