"The way the term moral values was used in the election was too narrow for me," said the Rev. Andrew McDonald, senior pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church. Prohibiting same-sex marriage and ...

We’ve all grown up with a sense of what’s “right” and what’s “wrong.” Don’t lie. Don’t steal. Be kind. Respect your elders. But have you ever stopped and asked yourself—why do we believe these things?

People who do have actual morals almost always say certain phrases when they talk to you that convey their high standards and values. When you hear a person speaking this way, you can learn a good ...

Everyone has a set of morals that they live by, whether they realize it or not. Some people tune into those morals closely and let them guide them throughout their lives, while others view them as ...

This post is in response to How Moral Principles Make Us Dumb By Jeremy E. Sherman Ph.D. Two weeks ago I said, "I never met a moral principle I could trust." One reader responded: Generalizations and ...

Recently, I’ve been lucky enough to be around a lot of people who I would regard as moral heroes. They spend their lives fighting poverty, caring for the young or the sick, or single-mindedly ...

I spent the summer of 2011 as an undergraduate researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, in Colorado. My job was to collect burying beetles—necrophagous critters with wing cases the ...

In today’s society, are we doing our children a service by teaching them ethical and moral behaviors? There are so many people who don’t have a strong moral compass who do quite well in our society.

It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil and gas. He realized that a batch of letters he’d sent to landowners, ...

The mental health world has a term for psychological distress that happens when your values are violated. Credit...Vanessa Saba Supported by By Christina Caron When Jennifer S. Wortham was a teenager, ...