John Morgan

1 day ago | readingeagle.com | John Morgan

Good news is hard to come by some days, so let me try to offer a little hope, even if I cannot offer hard proof of the assertions. Let’s get the negative out of the way since it dominates the news. The Doomsday Clock, a composite warning signal formulated by many noted scientists, is now showing we are 89 seconds from midnight, the time representing how close we are as a species to extinction. The clock takes into account climate change, technology and wars, among other things.

1 day ago | dailylocal.com | John Morgan

Regardless of troubling signs in the world, people have power to make things better.

1 week ago | readingeagle.com | John Morgan

There are some basic rules for living with others we learn early in life, either in our family, school or religious community. Some of these early rules seem as self-evident commandments, usually negative ones — don’t play with your food or don’t pull the dog’s tail. We learn to obey these rules or suffer the consequences, usually being asked to go to our rooms and turn off our cellphones.. Sometimes breaking rules ends with both verbal and physical punishments.

1 week ago | thereporteronline.com | John Morgan

Everyday ethics: Basic rules for living with others Early lessons on the school playground can resonate through adulthood.

2 weeks ago | delcotimes.com | John Morgan

“How do you go about making ethical decisions?”This is the most frequent question I am asked, whether by readers of my columns or students in the classroom. This is a fair question, one that begins with an admission that when it comes to making big decisions I am dreadfully like other people, as 19th-century American essayist James Russell Lowell said of himself.