Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 09083 The question of whether churches should pay taxes touches on the intersection of the church’s spiritual mission and its existence as an institution within a civil society. Across most Western nations, churches and religious organisations have historically been exempt from certain forms of taxation. But is this appropriate? Is there a biblical principle…
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: 4 minutesQuestion 60028 This question moves from the theological framework of Q60027 to the practical: should individual Christians be actively involved in the political process? Should they vote, campaign, stand for office, lobby, and seek to influence public policy? The answer is yes, with significant qualifications that protect the integrity of the gospel and the witness…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60036 Expressive individualism is the dominant philosophy of the modern West, even though most people who live by it have never heard the term. It is the belief that the highest good is to look within yourself, discover your authentic identity, and then express that identity to the world — and that any external…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60032 Artificial intelligence has moved from science fiction into daily reality with a speed that has caught much of the world off guard. Language models that can write essays, generate code, compose music, and hold extended conversations; image generators that produce photorealistic pictures from text descriptions; autonomous systems that make decisions with real-world consequences;…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60033 The rapid integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life has raised a practical question for many Christians: is it right to use AI? Some believers are uneasy about it, sensing that there is something problematic about relying on machines for tasks that seem to require human thought, creativity, or even spiritual discernment. Others…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60031 Environmentalism has become one of the defining concerns of contemporary Western culture. Climate change, pollution, deforestation, species extinction, and the broader question of humanity’s relationship with the natural world now dominate political discourse, educational curricula, and public consciousness. For the Christian, the question is not whether the earth matters — it plainly does…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60034 The concept of “systemic racism” has become one of the most prominent and contested ideas in contemporary Western culture. It is the claim that racism is not primarily a matter of individual prejudice but is embedded in the structures, institutions, laws, and systems of society — operating independently of the intentions of the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60035 The term “social gospel” has a long history in Christian thought, originating in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a movement that sought to apply Christian ethics to social problems — poverty, inequality, labour exploitation, and public health. In its contemporary form, it manifests as a Christianity that prioritises social justice,…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60030 Racism is one of the most persistent and painful realities of human history. From ancient tribal hostilities to the transatlantic slave trade, from apartheid to ongoing ethnic tensions across the globe, the hatred of one group by another on the basis of ethnicity or skin colour has caused immeasurable suffering. The question for…