When it comes to a moral dilemma, any moral dilemma, we always face three steps. The first is the most important: We must recognize it as moral issue, not just an investment decision, or a clinical issue, or a political choice. The second step is to find an answer to the question: What should I do? Then comes the third, and probably hardest step: to summon the courage to do it. A well-cultivated imagination can inform all these steps. It helps us recognize the moral issues wrapped in all kinds of choices. It helps clarify what the right choice is, and it motivates us to take the action that choice calls for. But how do we acquire and nurture such an imagination?
— Harvey Cox, When Jesus Came to Harvard