Posts by Jason Thacker

WeeklyTech #139

Free to Tweet? Content Moderation, Religious Freedom, and the Digital Public Square

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/May 9, 2022

“If religious freedom is advocated only for pragmatic reasons, it can and will be sacrificed to expediency.” Those words, spoken in 1983 by the late evangelical theologian and ethicist Carl F….

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Why should Christians study ethics?

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/May 1, 2022

One of the (many) ongoing debates within the Church today centers around the usefulness of worldview studies and how we are to think about the nature of the Christian life….

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 WeeklyTech #138

The Sexual Revolution, the modern self, and cultural engagement

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/April 25, 2022

This is a transcription of the Digital Public Square podcast interview with Dr. Carl Trueman. Subscribe in your favorite podcast app to get new episodes each Monday morning or listen online….

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 WeeklyTech #137

On the need for intellectual inquiry

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/April 18, 2022

A few weeks ago in the Supreme court nomination hearings, Senator Marsha Blackburn (TN-R) asked a question to then Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to define what the term woman means,…

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 WeeklyTech #136

How false notions of moral autonomy scrambled American parenting

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/April 12, 2022

Meta’s new safety tools for Instagram rolled out earlier this month, and they’ll become available in the Family Center for other apps, including Facebook, and the popular Oculus virtual reality headsets later this…

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Jason Thacker Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics

Jason serves as assistant professor of philosophy and ethics at Boyce College and a research fellow in Christian ethics at The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. He is the author or editor of several books, including "Following Jesus in a Digital Age" and "The Digital Public Square: Christian Ethics in a Technological Society."