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• FOREF Releases Statement on Hungary’s Religion Law

  By H. David Baer on September 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Forum for Religious Freedom Europe (FOREF), an organization with which I am affiliated, has released a statement on Hungary’s religion law. The statement will be delivered at an OSCE (Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe) conference held in Warsaw,… Read More ›

• Here’s an Essay I Wrote on How to Think About Ethics

  By H. David Baer on September 21, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  If you are a student in one of my ethics courses, especially students in my course Moral Problems in Theological Perspectives, you may be interested (or have an interest) in reading this essay on Different Ways to Think About Moral… Read More ›

• A MESSAGE TO ETHICS BOWLERS: THE CASES ARE OUT!

  By H. David Baer on September 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Attention all Ethics Bowlers! This year’s cases are out and can be downloaded here. The Texas Regional Ethics Bowl will take place every year on the campus of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio.  This year the Ethics Bowl will… Read More ›

• ALERT TO STUDENTS IN MY PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS COURSE: YOU HAVE HOMEWORK!

  By H. David Baer on August 24, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Back in the days when I was a student, I disliked those super-enthusiastic professors who assigned homework BEFORE the first day of class.  It was like, “Gimme a break, Professor, you must think you’re the center of the universe.”  I… Read More ›

• Even Baloney’s Better in Italy

  By H. David Baer on July 6, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Every time the family takes a trip to Italy, we look forward to eating mortedella.  Mortedella is an Italian cold cut, pork sausage with small cubs of pork fat, that has a gentle, bologna taste.  It’s often flavored with olives… Read More ›

• Are Drone Strikes Ever Justified?

  By H. David Baer on July 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  I have a friend in the human rights community who likes to point out that “Barack Obama has launched more drone strikes than any other winner of Nobel Peace Prize!”  To be sure, the use of drones is problematic, but… Read More ›

• Hungary’s Animal Farm

  By H. David Baer on July 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In November 2013 I delivered a paper at a conference of the Universal Peace Federation held in the Parliament building of the United Kingdom.  The title of my paper was “All Animals Are Equal, But Some Animals Are More Equal… Read More ›

• A Very Scary Catacomb

  By H. David Baer on July 3, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The city of Palermo, located on the northwest coast of Sicily, has a long and fascinating history.  Originally an ancient Phoenician colony, it was later ruled by the city of Carthage before it became part of the Roman Empire.  In… Read More ›

• Putin’s Designs on Europe

  By H. David Baer on July 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Here’s what I think about the situation in Ukraine.  From a recent issue of The Cresset.

• My Book on Hungary’s Religion Law

  By H. David Baer on July 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  A vallásszabadság védelmében / Essays in Defense of Religious Freedom. Budapest: Wesley János kiadó, 2014. This is the title of a new book I’ve published in English and Hungarian about a Hungary’s law on “religious freedom and the legal status… Read More ›