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Laurie Zoloth is an American ethicist, currently Margaret E. Burton Professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She was also dean of the Divinity School from 2017 to 2018, whereupon she stepped into an advisory administrative position. Wikipedia

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“In scriptural texts we think important, the point is made over and over again: Your moral activities can affect the rain, the harvest, and the health of everything you love. The link between moral choices and material outcomes is made continually, and it is received and studied toward normative action. The texts suggest the interruption of desire, of consumption, and of acquisition.”

"Interrupting Your Life: An Ethics for the Coming Storm" (2014)

“We dig up what is left of life crushed to carbon beneath us, and we burn it: to make important things, really—hospital intensive care units, synthetically derived insulin and steel beams for the new high school library. But we burn it for nothing, too, really, for vanity and emptiness.”

"Interrupting Your Life: An Ethics for the Coming Storm" (2014)

“For what are we interrupted? For the grandest dramas and the greatest joys, … for true loves, for desperate needs … If you are a moral being, you will have done well to be a being who has broken off, one who has stopped.”

"Interrupting Your Life: An Ethics for the Coming Storm" (2014)

“A theology of interruption demands we attend to the interruption as if the interruption were the real, and the other stuff of our lives a distraction.”

"Interrupting Your Life: An Ethics for the Coming Storm" (2014)

“The wealthiest have garnered the vast majority of wealth and burned the vast majority of carbon at the expense of the lives and the health of the poor.”

"Interrupting Your Life: An Ethics for the Coming Storm" (2014)

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