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"Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk" by Tosi and Warmke. A Review

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  Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780190900151; July 2020; $19.95   It’s melting the internet and burning up several news outlets. It makes informed dialogue among people nearly impossible, cracking up the sense of and desire for the common good. It looks and feels like chest-thumping and cock-strutting, and is turning up, with greater intensity, in the Whitehouse, the publishing house, and at the alehouse. Recently, a well-documented 248-page hardback has arrived on the scene diagnosing this “more-heat-than-light” predicament, “Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk”. The authors, Justin Tosi - Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University, and Brandon Warmke - Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, want to foster moral talk, but find huge obstacles. “People need to be able to talk about justice, freedom, equality, and the right thing to do. But we

"Father, Who Upholds..." - 16 August 2020

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  Father, who by your almighty and everywhere present power, upholds – as it were by your hand – heaven, earth, and all creatures, and so governs them that herbs and grass, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, food and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, come not by chance but by your fatherly hand: in grateful solace and solicitous gratitude, may we be patient when things go against us, thankful when things go well, and for the future have good confidence in you, our faithful God and Father, that nothing in creation will separate us from your love; for we are convinced that all creatures are so completely in your hand that without your will they can neither move nor be moved (Heidelberg Catechism 27-28). Lord of all power and might, author and giver of all good things; graft into our hearts a rich, deep love for you and your renown; increase in us true religion, that true religion that bridles tongues, visits and cares for orphans and widows, and keeps itself uns