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Enter the Exhibit, Uncategorized Posted onOctober 28, 2020October 28, 2020

Winning the Hunger Games: Navigating the Constraints of Adolescence with a Subversive Ethic of Care

Image by pasja1000 on Pixabay Over the past century, young adult fiction has gone through its phases and fads, but a major trope of the […] Read More

Enter the Exhibit, Uncategorized Posted onOctober 21, 2020October 22, 2020

Naked: Revealing and Redeeming Black Bodies Through the Exercise of Moral Agency Under Constraint

“Woman in White Dress Sitting on Rock” by KALZ of Kampala, Uganda Naked Black bodies are not new to American history or art. From images […] Read More

Enter the Exhibit Posted onOctober 14, 2020October 14, 2020

War is Hell: Moral Injury and Constrained Moral Agency

“War is Hell,” an original chalk painting by Daniel Averso. Used with express permission of the artist. Nothing ever prepares you for . . . […] Read More

Enter the Exhibit, Uncategorized Posted onOctober 8, 2020October 8, 2020

Paul Kalanithi’s Story: Identity Formation as Moral Agency

Photo by Martha Dominguez de Gouveia Kalanithi’s memoir When Breath Becomes Air, published posthumously in 2016, offers a compelling and eloquent portrait of a moral agent who chose […] Read More

Enter the Exhibit Posted onSeptember 28, 2020September 29, 2020

Moral Agency as Ritual: An Embodied Approach to the Question of Suffering

“All saints day” by Miroslav Petrasko (hdrshooter.com) is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Tradition, Experience, and Ritual: An Embodied Approach to the Question of Suffering […] Read More

Enter the Exhibit Posted onSeptember 21, 2020September 21, 2020

Trust, Racism, and Collaborative Agency

We have all heard that trust can be hard to earn and once lost is hard to regain. This is especially true if the trust […] Read More

Enter the Exhibit, Uncategorized Posted onSeptember 14, 2020September 16, 2020

Agency in Script of the Indigenous Gond Group in Central India

From Sunher Singh Taram Library, Kachargarh, Dhanegaon.  “That which is lost will be found/and the one that is found/ I do not want to lose,” […] Read More

Enter the Exhibit, Uncategorized Posted onSeptember 9, 2020September 9, 2020

Losing Control: Addiction Recovery as a Model of Moral Agency

Photo by Dmitry Ermakov on Unsplash What Do We Mean When We Say “Addiction”? Texts on addiction often begin with the caveat that there is little agreement within […] Read More

Enter the Exhibit, Uncategorized Posted onAugust 31, 2020August 31, 2020

GenerationFIVE and the Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse

Among contemporary social issues, child sexual abuse (CSA) is perhaps both the most and least contentious. While actors across the political spectrum denounce it in […] Read More

Neighborhood Church congregation on steps of sanctuary with rainbow flags
Enter the Exhibit Posted onAugust 24, 2020August 24, 2020

LGBTQ Inclusion in the United Methodist Church as Moral Agency

Neighborhood Church congregation on the steps of the church sanctuary. (Photo obtained with permission from Neighborhood Church.)   What Counts as Activism?: A Case Study […] Read More

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