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Tag Archive: "lying"

Bonhoeffer on Telling the Truth

  POSTED: December 15, 2019
  AUTHOR: Jim Spiegel
  TOPIC(S): Books • Ethics • Theology
 TAG(S): Dietrich Bonhoeffer • Ethics • lying • truth

In the final years of his life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer worked on a book on ethics and was never completed, though he made substantial progress on it. It was eventually published posthumously. In his Ethics, Bonhoeffer discusses the question, what is … Continued

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On Lying to Children about Santa Claus

  POSTED: December 24, 2015
  AUTHOR: Jim Spiegel
  TOPIC(S): Cultural Observations • Ethics
 TAG(S): children • Christmas • Jesus Christ • lying • parents • Santa Claus

Have you seen this story about a ten-year-old girl, Belle Adams, whose belief in Santa Claus was dashed by her mother?  My wife texted me little Belle’s letter with the comment that the story “confirms one of our parenting decisions.”  … Continued

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