Should a mother consent to having her child immunized with a vaccine that was developed many years ago from aborted fetal tissue? Should a student use an anatomy atlas that includes drawings that likely used hundreds of dissected cadavers from the Nazi death camps as models? Should a woman who is imminently dying of intractable heart failure consent to a heart transplant if she knows the new heart has been retrieved from a young man who was murdered a few hours ago? The common thread in these scenarios is the question of moral complicity. Does scripture or Christian tradition teach us anything about moral complicity?
When the mother of a disabled man says he’s perfect, she’s saying that the Lord, in His wisdom and mercy, has made ...
When the Crying Stops – Abortion: The Pain and the Healing
Written by Kathleen Winkler with meditations by the Rev. Dr. Harold L. Senkbeil, this book includes stories of 19 post-abortive women who recall their abortion experiences. The stories contain remembering, remorse, and regret. The author tells stories of how repentance happened, forgiveness was found, and the crying stopped.
The Intrusion of Psychology Into Christian Theology
Modern psychology is not an innocent helping-discipline to carelessly borrow from the left-hand kingdom and merge ...
The Appeal of Ethical Relativism
This article gives replies to someone who rejects the idea of morality and is based on reason rather than ...
Pro-Life Penalty
The state acts as God’s agent when it kills those who have killed.
Pro-Life Penalty
Human Ethics and Animal Rights
It seems incongruous that even as we freely kill unborn humans made in the image of God in demonstration of “a ...
Could You Be Addicted?
Whether some addictions may be more dangerous or less dangerous to our well-being, every kind of addiction ...
Can War Be Just?
Current discussions of an unprovoked “first strike” against another country challenge the historic just-war ...
Addressing Issues of Moral Complicity
Should a mother consent to having her child immunized with a vaccine that was developed many years ago from ...
That They May Live
Assisted-suicide and euthanasia present the church, society, families, and individuals with one of the most ...
From Healing to Relief of Suffering
The Christian response to medical ethics today is to speak the Word of truth to empty lives that believe lies that ...
What Is a Stem Cell?
Are we to consider the human body divorced from what it means to be a human being? Is the human body merely the ...
