JSCE coeditor MT Dávila has a piece in America magazine this week: www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

How Catholics can resist Trump’s deportation campaign against Haitians

The concepts of “rootedness” and “the right to stay, migrate and return,” embedded in Catholic social teaching, offer a lens for framing solidarity with migrants today.

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Congratulations to former SCE president Bryan Massingale for receiving the CTSA's John Courtney Murray Award!

Fr Bryan Massingale receives lifetime achievement award from Catholic Theological Society of America

The noted Black Catholic theologian, an advocate on racial justice and LGBTQ+ issues, is the second Black person to receive the prestigious honor.

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Congratulations to SCE members Agnes Brazal and Christine Pae on their contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of Asian Christian Theologies! See "Asian Feminist Theologies: Shifts and Directions" (Prof. Brazal) and "Asian Diaspora Theologians: Jung Young Lee and Kwok Pui-Lan" (Prof. Pae).

The Oxford Handbook of Asian Christian Theologies

Abstract. This Oxford Handbook of Asian Christian Theologies proudly joins its predecessor, The Oxford Handbook of Christianity in Asia, in the prestigious

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The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, has a tenure-track opening in theological ethics:

Tenure Track, Assistant Professor of Theology in St. Paul, Minnesota | Careers at St. Paul

The Theology Department in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Theological Ethics at the rank of assistant…

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Yesterday's JSTOR Daily featured SCE member Jeremy Posadas's 2020 article in JSCE (= his paper at the 2019 annual meeting in Louisville). Check it out! daily.jstor.org/why-care-mat...

Why Care Matters More Than Work - JSTOR Daily

Reproductive justice offers a new way to think about human flourishing beyond the job market.

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Congratulations to SCE member Ray Roberts on the publication of "A Democratic and Republican Faith" with Wipf & Stock, featuring a foreword by former SCE president David Gushee! wipfandstock.com/979838525142...

SCE member @lukebretherton.bsky.social has published "Usury, Debt, and the Ethics of Mutuality: Toward a Theological Reordering of Economic Life" in Studies in Christian Ethics (the journal of SSCE, our sister society in the UK): journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to SCE member @profligategrace.bsky.social on the publication of "Erecting the Pulpit" with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social! www.bloomsbury.com/us/erecting-...

Congratulations to SCE member Sunder John Boopalan on the publication of his coedited volume Disciplinary Tensions in World Christianity with @fortresspress.bsky.social! www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

Congratulations to SCE members @luzarragar.bsky.social and @tumnusethic.bsky.social on the publication of their coedited volume for the College Theology Society with @orbisbooks.bsky.social! With contributions from members @zahaney.bsky.social and Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, SJ. buff.ly/d4uEc3z

SCE member Amy Laura Hall (@profligategrace.bsky.social) is featured on the latest episode of the "And Also With You" podcast, entitled “Who is St. Julian of Norwich? PART 01.” (And part 2 will be out soon as well!) andalsowithyoupod.com

SCE member Nicholas Hayes-Mota was quoted extensively in a recent NYT piece on Pope Leo XIV: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/w...

Congratulations to SCE member Stephanie Edwards on the publication of "Witnessing the Wounds" with @orbisbooks.bsky.social! orbisbooks.com/products/wit...

The Celebration of Life for Rev. Dr. Darryl Trimiew will be held on Sat., May 2, at First Christian Church of Atlanta, 4532 Lavista Rd., Tucker, GA. Gather with the family from 10AM-11AM. The service will begin at 11AM. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the American Heart Association.

Our condolences to the family, friends, students, and colleagues of Darryl M. Trimiew, a respected member of the SCE who served as president in 2008. Prof. Trimiew faithfully attended every annual meeting along with his wife, Dolores, and his presence will be deeply missed.

Emilie M. Townes on why we need more ethicists: “More often than not, when someone finds out I am a college professor and asks what I teach, and I reply ‘ethics,’ there is a roll of the eyes and a somewhat hopeful sigh. They then say, ‘Oh, we need you today!’ Exactly.”
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Boston University School of Theology has launched a new collaborative resource entitled "For Such a Time as This: Theology & the Crises of Democracy," with SCE board member Jimmy McCarty among its initial contributors: www.forsuchtimes.com

Theology & the Crises of Democracy | Engage, Reflect, Act Now

Explore how theology and religious thought can address the democratic crises in the USA through essays, reflections, and community discussions led by Boston University School of Theology faculty.

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Check out SCE member Justin R. Hawkins's piece in Christianity Today: www.christianitytoday.com/2026/04/thre...

Threatening Profound Evil Trivializes That Evil - Christianity Today

President Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth speak often of Christianity—but they seem to have no interest in its vision for just warfare.

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Congratulations to SCE member @thekateward.bsky.social on the publication of "Making a Life" with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social! www.bloomsbury.com/us/making-a-...

St. Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth, is seeking a Lecturer in Moral Theology. Application due date: 10 April. spcm.bamboohr.com/careers/40

St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth is seeking a Lecturer in Moral Theology - Two-year Tenure Track with a view to a Permanent Position

St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth is seeking a Lecturer in Moral Theology - Two-year Tenure Track with a view to a Permanent Position St Patrick’s Pontifical University (SPPU) is…

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Check out SCE student member Isaac Villegas's piece in this month's issue of the Christian Century: www.christiancentury.org/features/ame...

American hell

In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr.’s confidence in the politics of progressivism dimmed. Judgment became his...

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New in Paperback! Congratulations to SCE member Jonathan M. Cahill on the paperback release of "Emotions, Moral Formation, and Christian Politics" in the T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics series! www.bloomsbury.com/us/emotions-...

SCE member Amy Laura Hall has an essay at ARC for Holy Week: arcmag.org/home-movies-...

Home Movies for Holy Week | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera

During the Western Christian Holy Week of 2026, how might churchgoers repent of Christian Nationalism? How to reckon with menacing forms of Christian-ish Americana, from sea to shining sea? I have…

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SCE member Tobias Winright has a letter to the editor in yesterday's New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

Matthew Lee Anderson's 2022 article in the Journal for the Society of Christian Ethics was featured as the JSTOR Daily this week: daily.jstor.org/a-christian-... #JSCEthics

A Christian Case for Gossip - JSTOR Daily

When silence allows harm to continue, warning others may become a difficult but necessary moral choice.

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CfP alert: The window for paper proposals to the Princeton-St. Andrews Scripture & Theology conference closes Tuesday, March 31: ptsem.edu/event/pauls-...

Paul's letter to the Romans Conference

Continuing the tradition of the St Andrews Scripture and Theology conferences, Princeton Theological Seminary, in partnership with St Andrews, announces a conference on Paul’s Letter to the Romans…

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Last call for the conference hall! Pardon the bad rhyme, but Friday is the last day to submit your proposal for our 2026 Summer Meeting AND the 2027 Annual Meeting. Details at www.scethics.org/2027-call-fo...

Congratulations to SCE member @jaredstacy.bsky.social on the publication of "Reality in Ruins" with @harpercollins.bsky.social! www.harpercollins.com/products/rea...

Check out former SCE president Jennifer Herdt's new article in the Journal of Moral Education: "‘The battle to take the land’: Higher education and the classical Christian education movement": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to SCE member Daniel Scheid in his new role at Boston College! www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...

Ethicist joins CSTM faculty

Daniel Scheid's research and teaching focus on interreligious ecological ethics

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