Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60032. Artificial intelligence has moved from the pages of science fiction into daily life at a speed that has caught most institutions unprepared, the church very much included. Systems that write, summarise, translate, generate pictures and hold a conversation are now in the hands of anyone with a phone, and the question of whether…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60030. Racism is one of the oldest and most persistent evils in human history, and Scripture gives us the tools to name it for what it is. Before we get to any modern argument about terminology or policy, there is a straightforward biblical account of why treating people as lesser on the basis of…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5029. God’s image is the single most important truth about you that you did not choose, earn, or vote on. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). Everything the Bible says about human worth, human sin, and…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5023. Human personhood is the question beneath nearly every moral battle of our age, though it rarely gets named. Abortion, euthanasia, embryo research, artificial intelligence, the treatment of the profoundly disabled: scratch any of them and you find the same buried issue. Who counts as a person? Who is a “someone” rather than a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5022. Human dignity is the worth that belongs to every human being simply because God made us in His own image, and that single sentence carries more weight than whole libraries of philosophy. Everyone talks about dignity. Politicians invoke it, charters enshrine it, campaigners march for it. But ask the modern world where human…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5021. To be wonderfully made is not a compliment David pays himself in Psalm 139; it is worship he pays to his Maker. “I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14) is a sentence about God before it is a sentence about David, and that ordering matters more than almost…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5020. Humans and angels are the Bible’s two great orders of rational creatures, and comparing them is one of the most clarifying exercises in theology. Popular culture muddles them endlessly: films where the dead earn wings, sympathy cards assuring us that heaven has gained another angel. It sounds comforting, but it is not what…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5010. How the church treats people with disabilities reveals what it really believes about the image of God. Not what it prints in its statement of faith, but what it believes in practice, in the car park, the pew, and the membership roll. Scripture speaks to this with surprising directness, and its verdict is…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5006. God created us male and female, and Genesis announces it not as biology trivia but as theology of the highest order. The statement sits inside the Bible’s very first chapter, in the verse that tells us we bear the image of God. Whatever else that pairing means, it means this: sexual difference is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5000. Biblical anthropology sounds like an intimidating phrase, but it names one of the most practical questions theology ever asks: what, exactly, is a human being? The word comes from the Greek anthropos, man, and logos, word or study; the study of man. Universities have anthropology departments that examine cultures, bones, and languages, and…