Ethics & Morality

Question 11088 Discerning sin is one of the ordinary tasks of the Christian life, and it is a good deal ...

Question 11009. Most Christians spend the largest waking portion of their lives in daily work, and a good many of ...

Question 12031 Christians and gambling is a question that cannot be settled by looking up a verse, because there is ...

Question 12057. Is sex before marriage wrong? Yes, and I am aware that saying so plainly puts me at odds ...

Question 12056. Physical discipline is the part of this question that gets argued about, though behind it sits a whole ...

Question 12054. Family planning is one of the few subjects where Christians hold strong private convictions and say almost nothing ...

Question 11103 Gender dysphoria is a subject on which the church has managed to be both too loud and too ...

Question 12026 Preferred pronouns have turned an ordinary part of speech into a test of allegiance, and believers are being ...

Question 12024 Sexual purity has become an embarrassing phrase in some circles, partly because it has been handled badly. A ...

Question 12023 The sin of pornography is the one I am asked about most often in private and preached about ...

Question 12002 Situational ethics is the view that no act is right or wrong in itself, and that the loving ...

Question 11060. Marrying an unbeliever is a question I have been asked in tears more often than almost any other, ...

Question 12015 Birth control is one of those subjects on which Christians have grown noticeably quieter, and I think that ...

Question 12016 IVF treatment is a subject I approach carefully, because behind almost every question about it is a couple ...

Question 12017 Homosexual practice is the subject on which the church in the West is most frequently accused of cruelty, ...

Question 12019 Transgender identity is not really a question about pronouns, bathrooms or sport, though those are where the arguments ...

Question 12013 Cremation and burial is one of those questions that arrives at the worst possible moment. A family is ...

Question 12004 Christians and tattoos is a subject that produces a good deal of confident assertion and rather little careful ...

Question 12036. Every discussion about Christian entertainment eventually arrives at the same awkward moment, when someone asks whether a particular ...

Question 12003 Few subjects generate more heat and less light among British believers than Christians and alcohol. Some congregations treat ...

Question 12059. Should Christians attend gay weddings? This is one of the hardest practical questions I am asked, and it ...

Question 12058. Cohabiting before marriage is now the ordinary route into marriage in Britain, which means that when a couple ...

Question 12064. The phrase love the sinner and hate the sin has become one of those sayings that everybody quotes ...

Question 12010 Biblical marriage is not a religious variation on a general human institution. It is the institution, given by ...

Question 12009 White lies are so woven into ordinary life that most of us have never stopped to examine them ...

Question 12008 The sin of lying looks like the easiest ethical question in the Bible. God says do not lie, ...

Question 12007 Biblical self-defence stops being an abstract question the moment you hear glass breaking downstairs at two in the ...

Question 12006 Just war thinking has been the settled position of most Christians for something like sixteen centuries, and yet ...

Question 12005 Capital punishment is one of those questions where sincere believers land in different places, and I want to ...

Question 12001 Most moral decisions a Christian faces are not the dramatic ones. They are whether to say something about ...

Question 12000 Christian ethics is the study of how followers of Jesus ought to live, and that sounds dull until ...

Question 11061. Dating unbelievers is a question the Bible never addresses directly, for the simple reason that dating as we ...

Question 12055. A Christian immigration ethic has to do something the newspapers never manage, which is to hold together a ...

Question 12030 Transgender ideology did not begin in a clinic or on a university campus in the 1990s. It is ...

Question 60033. Whether a Christian should be using AI is now a live question in ordinary church life rather than ...

Question 60047. Can you be a pro-choice Christian? I want to answer the pro-choice Christian question carefully, because it is ...

Question 08101 Whether horror films can invite demonic activity is a question I get asked more often around the end ...

Question 12029 The transgender movement seemed to arrive suddenly, and that impression is part of why it has been so ...

Question 12060. Borrowing money is not always wrong, and the short answer to this question is no, though borrowing money ...

Question 12061. Scripture does not endorse any of the economic systems human beings have devised, and I think that disappoints ...

Question 12011 Charging interest has a long and awkward history in Christian ethics. For centuries the church treated it as ...

Question 12012 Christian landlords are asked to justify themselves far more often than they used to be. In a country ...

Question 12027 Whether sex is a biological reality or a social construct has moved from academic seminars to primary schools ...

Question 11059. Psychology and Scripture is a subject that produces more heat than light in most Christian conversations, and I ...

Question 6032. The sin of lust is one of the areas where believers most often feel defeated, and part of ...

Question 6071. Scripture defines sexual sin with considerable care, and masturbation is never named among the things it defines. That ...

Question 6072. Lust and attraction are not the same thing, and a great many sincere Christians have been tormented by ...

Question 5002.The Bible treats human sexuality as one of God's good gifts, given before sin ever entered the world, and ...

Question 5003.The question of gender identity has moved from academic journals to school classrooms in a single generation, and Christians ...

Question 5007. Ask me when human life begins and I will not reach first for a laboratory or a law ...

Question 5008 Few issues provoke more heated debate than abortion. For many, it represents essential healthcare and women's freedom; for ...

Question 12046. Is Christian nationalism biblical? My short answer is no, though the question deserves a great deal more care ...

Question 12047. Christian pacifism is one of those positions I find myself respecting far more than I agree with. The ...

Question 12048. Every time border control comes up in conversation at church, somebody quotes the good Samaritan and somebody else ...

Question 12050. Ask a room of British evangelicals about climate change and you will get two confident answers and a ...

Question 12049. Is smoking a sin? I get asked this more often than you might expect, usually by someone who ...

Question 12062 Abortion is among the most contested moral questions in contemporary Western society, and it is one on which ...

Question 12063. Assisted dying is no longer a theoretical question in Britain. Parliament has debated it repeatedly, opinion has shifted, ...

Question 60092. Slavery in Scripture is raised more often as an accusation than as a question, and I understand why ...

Question 12045. Defending religious liberty while believing that idolatry is a sin against God feels, to a lot of people, ...

Question 5004.Ask ten people to define biblical masculinity and you will get a dozen answers, most of them borrowed from ...

Question 5005.Biblical femininity is one of those subjects where the caricatures arrive before the Bible does. One stereotype paints the ...

Question 1117. The imprecatory psalms are the prayers that stop most Bible readers in their tracks, the ones where the ...

Question 1100. Social justice is a phrase that can mean almost anything depending on who is using it, and I ...