Remedy or Replication: AI Companions and Relational Trauma, Spring Lowell Lecture @ Boston University

A.I. companions increasingly replace human romantic, erotic, social, educational, therapeutic, and collegial relationships. Whether interpersonally or society-wide, we are ill-equipped to engage in moral discernment about the ethical implications of this shift. The turn to A.I. companions reveals fractured expectations, systemic pressures, and misaligned desires troubling human-to-human relationships misguided by Read more

The Parables Ethic: Practicing Just Futures with Young People

After presenting at the 2025 Society of Christian Ethics meeting, my paper was accepted and published in Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, August 28, 2025. To read the full article – https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase26?openform&fp=jsce&id=jsce_2025_0999_8_27_129 Dystopian predictions pervade popular culture as humanity tries to make meaning of climate catastrophe, novel pandemics, Read more