Christian ethics and moral decision-making—applying biblical principles to complex issues.
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12050 Climate change has become one of the most contentious issues of our time, generating passionate responses across the political spectrum. Christians find themselves caught between competing claims, uncertain how to think biblically about environmental concerns. What framework does Scripture provide for navigating this complex topic? The Dominion Mandate Our starting point must be…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12049 The question of whether smoking is sinful troubles many believers. Scripture never mentions tobacco—unsurprising given that it was unknown in the biblical world—so we must apply broader biblical principles to reach a faithful conclusion. This requires careful thought rather than mere proof-texting. The Body as God’s Temple The most frequently cited passage in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12062 Abortion is among the most contested moral questions in contemporary Western society, and it is one on which Scripture speaks with more clarity than is often acknowledged. The Bible does not use the word abortion, but it addresses the foundations on which any Christian answer must be built, and those foundations lead in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12063 The question of euthanasia — the deliberate ending of a person’s life to relieve suffering — is one that medicine, law, and culture are increasingly willing to normalise. For Christians, it raises questions that Scripture addresses at the level of principle, even where it does not speak to every contemporary medical specific. The…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60092 Few questions are asked with more rhetorical intent than this one, and yet it deserves a thorough biblical answer rather than an apologetic retreat. The charge is typically that the Bible not only permits slavery but endorses it, and that the transatlantic slave trade of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries was therefore consistent…
Reading Time: 13 minutesQuestion 12045 Baptists hold a remarkable and often underappreciated distinction in the history of Western civilisation: they were among the earliest voices in the English-speaking world to call for universal religious freedom. Not mere toleration for their own group, but genuine liberty of conscience for all people, including those whose beliefs they considered deeply wrong….
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5002 The Bible does not approach human sexuality and gender as peripheral matters of private preference or cultural convention. From the opening chapters of Genesis they are woven into the fabric of creation itself, part of what it means to be made in God’s image and to live as the creatures He designed. Understanding…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 5004 The question of masculinity has become genuinely contested in contemporary Western culture. From one direction comes the insistence that traditional masculine virtues are inherently problematic, expressions of privilege and domination that require deconstruction. From another, a reactive form of masculinity has emerged that confuses aggression, emotional closure, and domination with genuine strength. Neither…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 5005 To speak of biblical femininity in the current cultural moment is to invite immediate suspicion that what follows will be a list of restrictions, a theological justification of reduced expectations, or a religious endorsement of what critics would call patriarchy. None of that would be accurate. The biblical portrait of womanhood is one…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1117 Among the psalms of praise, thanksgiving, and quiet trust, we encounter prayers that shock us with their intensity. These are the imprecatory psalms, prayers calling down curses on enemies, invoking divine vengeance in the most graphic terms. “Break the teeth in their mouths, O God!” (Psalm 58:6). “Let their children be fatherless and…