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Art of Ethics Training Resources

On November 16, 2023, Dr. Kate Ott, Director of the Stead Center on Ethics and Values and Elizabeth Emis, Art of Ethics Project Coordinator for […]

By Kate Ott

Liturgy and Art of Ethics

The Stead Center and the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary worship team, guided by the creative liturgical leadership of Dean Karen Mosby, worked together to prepare an Art of Ethics service for and with the seminary community.

By Kate Ott

Oppenheimer: Touching on Affective Textures and Violent Technologies

The release of Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer ignited extensive discussions online about war narratives, advanced technology, and the influence of emotions in storytelling through new media. While the term “affective textures” might not be familiar to everyone, it’s the reason why people spent over $500 million to watch a movie depicting the creation of the atomic bomb and its profound impact on the world in 1945.

By Joshua K. Smith, PhD

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Jesus paired these two—peacemakers and Children of God—because children have a way of reminding adults that moral formation is an active, creative process, not simply a list of unchanging rules. Peacemaking takes creativity, collaboration, and compromise; three things children are doing all the time. We explain it this way in the Art of Ethics project at the Stead Center.

By Kate Ott

A Place for Conversation

The Stead Center for Ethics and Values seeks to be a place for conversation on relevant, current, critical justice issues. This site is a platform […]

By Stead Center

Stead Center Names New Director

The following announcement was released from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in April 2022. Dr. Kate Ott has been named the next holder of the Jerre L. […]

By Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

Profiles in the Metaverse

Politics, and how to engage in it, is always in a state of flux and motion. Sometimes politics progresses and takes on a new evolution […]

By Shane R. Hinson

What’s the Dirt on Grit?

South Dakota Governor and former cattle rancher Kristi Noem has a beef with her fellow GOP governors: they aren’t gritty enough.  In her 2021 address […]

By Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon and Sara A. Williams

Fear and Anger

Extreme weather in Texas for about a week in February saw snow in places where the existence of the white stuff had hitherto been only […]

By Victor Lee Austin