Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05007 Few questions in ethics carry more weight than this one. When does a human life begin? It is the question underlying every discussion of abortion, every debate about embryo research, and every conversation about what we owe to the most vulnerable. Scripture addresses it, and its answer is consistent: the life in the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 05021 Psalm 139 is one of the most intimate passages in all of Scripture. From beginning to end, David is meditating on what it means to be completely and personally known by God. By verse 13 he moves from the general truth of God’s omniscience to its application to his own individual life, and…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05023 Personhood is one of the most consequential questions in ethics, because the answer determines who is protected, who is excluded, and on what basis. It is also a question where the biblical account and the dominant contemporary accounts diverge in ways that have immediate practical consequences. The disagreement is not merely about timing…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05022 Human dignity is one of those phrases that appears constantly in public debate, appealed to by people across very different ethical traditions, and meaning rather different things depending on who is using it. For that reason it is worth being precise about what the phrase means in a biblical framework, and why it…