Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60047 The question of whether a person can be both pro-choice and a faithful Christian arises with increasing frequency, particularly in cultures where reproductive rights have become a defining political issue. It is a question that deserves a direct and honest answer, because it touches on matters of life, death, and the character of…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5007 This question lies at the heart of some of the most contested ethical debates of our time, from abortion to embryonic stem cell research to in vitro fertilisation. Yet it is not merely a political question; it is a deeply theological one. How we answer it reflects our view of God, of human…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5008 Few issues provoke more heated debate than abortion. For many, it represents essential healthcare and women’s freedom; for others, it constitutes the taking of innocent human life. The question for us as believers is not what our culture says or what our political party says but what God says. While the Bible does…
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 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…