Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12002 Situational ethics is one of those frameworks that sounds reasonable on the surface but unravels when examined carefully. The basic claim is that moral decisions should be made entirely on the basis of the situation at hand, with love as the only absolute principle, and that rigid moral rules should give way when…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12027 The claim that gender is a social construct, independent of biology and existing on a spectrum, has moved from academic gender theory into mainstream cultural assumption with remarkable speed. It is now treated in many Western contexts as established fact, with those who question it labelled as bigoted or scientifically illiterate. But is…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 09079 Across Europe, North America, and the wider Western world, churches are emptying at a pace that would have been unimaginable two generations ago. Denominations that once shaped the cultural landscape are now struggling to fill pews, retain members, and find ministers for their pulpits. The decline is not imaginary, and it is not…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 12030 The transgender movement did not appear from nowhere. It has deep philosophical roots stretching back centuries, and understanding those roots is essential for any Christian who wants to engage the culture with both truth and compassion. Ideas have consequences, and the ideas behind the modern gender revolution can be traced through a surprisingly…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60017 This is a question that comes from two very different directions. Some Muslims argue that the Qur’an confirms the truth of the Bible and even points people toward it. Some Christians argue that the Qur’an, by its own claims about previous scriptures, inadvertently supports the reliability of the Bible. The question is worth…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60013 Hinduism is the world’s third-largest religion, with over one billion adherents, the vast majority in India and Nepal. It is also one of the oldest, with roots stretching back thousands of years. For many Western Christians, Hinduism is the most unfamiliar of the major world religions, because its assumptions about reality, the nature…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60016 The claim that Christians and Muslims worship the same God is one of the most commonly repeated statements in interfaith dialogue. It sounds generous, inclusive, and peaceable. It is also, on careful examination, theologically incoherent. The question is not whether Christians and Muslims both claim to worship one God. They do. The question…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60012 Islam is the world’s second-largest religion, with nearly two billion adherents. It is also the religion that most frequently presents itself as compatible with, or even the fulfilment of, biblical faith. For this reason, Christians need to understand what Islam actually teaches, where it genuinely overlaps with Christianity, and where it fundamentally diverges….
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60037 One of the strangest features of the contemporary West is the way relativism — the insistence that there are no absolute truths, especially in matters of morality — has produced not the tolerance it promised but a new and remarkably aggressive form of intolerance. The culture that declared “there is no absolute truth”…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60060 The question of extraterrestrial life has fascinated humanity for centuries, and the modern space age has intensified the search. Programmes like SETI, the discovery of exoplanets, and the exploration of Mars have all fed the expectation that we will eventually discover life beyond Earth. What does Scripture say about this? Is there life…