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The Child As a Gift of God

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What Child Is This?

What Child Is This?

This is an edited and adapted version of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Commission on Theology and Church Relations report on “Marriage, Family and Human Cloning.” It speaks not only of cloning but also briefly touches on artificial insemination, surrogacy, and in vitro fertilization.
What Can We Say That Is Lutheran in Bioethics?

What Can We Say That Is Lutheran in Bioethics?

A Lutheran response to issues in bioethics is always one of Law and Gospel. Law is necessary to constrain the weak ...
Transhumanism: Humans Without Bodies

Transhumanism: Humans Without Bodies

Transhumanism puts faith in technology and holds onto the hope that humans can conquer death and become immortal ...
Stem Cell Research: Theology

Stem Cell Research: Theology

Christians are neighbors to the unborn embryo. Because we are forgiven by His grace through faith, the ...
Smuggling Theology Into Discussions of Ethics

Smuggling Theology Into Discussions of Ethics

 Ethical relativism in issues of bioethics betrays a serious fault. It does not make allowances for the ...
New Technologies, Old Questions: How to Stay Human in the Post-Christian Church

New Technologies, Old Questions: How to Stay Human in the Post-Christian Church

Developments in emerging technologies will lead to vast changes in the way we live. How do we ensure that ...
Informed Consent

Informed Consent

Christians who give informed consent have an opportunity for faith in God’s care through their time of weakness. ...
Genetic Engineering

Genetic Engineering

Respecting the integrity of genetic research and its outcome, as Christians we recognize the limitations God ...
Can or Should?

Can or Should?

When questions are raised of abortion, contraception, euthanasia, stem-cell research, in vitro fertilization, we ...
Bios and Biology

Bios and Biology

In one sense, bioethics is something quite new, a development of the last half-century or so. The term itself is ...
Bioethics! What Is It?

Bioethics! What Is It?

Bioethics is ethics applied to moral concerns arising out of the technology that involves decision-making about ...
An Approach to Bioethics

An Approach to Bioethics

In our culture, ethical or moral determinations are often based on the sentiments of who makes the decision. In ...

More Family Resources

Tossing the Last Taboo

Tossing the Last Taboo

Christians dare not opt out of the culture wars, especially while influential culture makers are trying to normalize sex with children. If Christians let the world go its merry way into the black hole of depravity, we will be putting their children in genuine danger.
Homosexuality in Christian Perspective

Homosexuality in Christian Perspective

We dare not permit the church’s public teaching on the matter of homosexuality to be taken over and determined by a desire to “affirm” every person in whatever state he or she may be. That is not the gospel.
God and the Gay Lifestyle

God and the Gay Lifestyle

Homosexual behavior, like any sin, can be forgiven. That’s quite a different thing, of course, than to say that such behavior is OK.
A Step Too Far, For Now

A Step Too Far, For Now

When the American Psychological Association’s journal of record published an article saying that sex between children and adults might be OK, not too many people noticed. But such is the furor that has since arisen at the prospect of America’s psychologists possibly normalizing pedophilia — as they already have homosexuality — that the organization is backtracking. Sort of.
Called to Our Work

Called to Our Work

We don’t choose our vocations; God chooses us for them. The Christian can understand the ordinary labors of life to be charged with meaning. Through our labor, no matter how humble, God is at work.
Called to Be Citizens

Called to Be Citizens

Christians are called to be citizens: to obey laws, pay their taxes, and honor and pray for their governing officials. Patriotic feelings and acts of civic-mindedness are fitting responses to the blessings God has given this country and the citizenship to which He has called us.
Called by the Gospel

Called by the Gospel

All Christians have a calling in the church. We all have been called into faith, and we all are called to a local congregation, where we each have a part to play in the community of faith.