Throughout the first 12 years of my time teaching moral theology at Benedictine College, students would occasionally ask whether or not they had to follow a law that they believed to be unjust. When ...

Imagine you are in a queue at an office. A staff member suddenly tells everyone to shift to a different line because ‘this ...

It has been said, “Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon will inevitably come to pass!" I think this sums up the attitude of obedience. When a ...

“Where there is no obedience, there is no virtue; where there is no virtue, there is no good; where there is no good there is no love; where there is no love, there is no God; and where there is no ...

One viewpoint: It is not morally OK to obey unjust and unethical laws. It is your moral obligation to defy these. An unjust law is not even considered a law — it is not legitimate. Resist, disobey, ...

I suspect many of us have a negative, uncomfortable feeling associated with the word. Maybe it reminds us how much we don’t want to be controlled or told what to do. We want to be our own persons, ...

II’S a basic virtue that comes to us like an instinct. It’s part of our natural endowments that at the beginning is ruled mainly by hormones. That’s why babies and children follow and obey their ...

Women will obey whomsoever they please — if they choose to obey anyone at all — and if that happens to be their husband, so be it. But they aren’t making any promises, which is why many women would ...

Why have the landmark psychology experiments of the post-war era proved so enduring? Designed as dramas about human behaviour, experimenters drew on theatrical techniques and tailored their results ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - The upcoming OBEY Conference is a free event designed to inspire, uplift, and empower individuals to walk hand in hand with their Creator and each other, according to ...