Sanctity of Life
From the instant of conception to the end life, God loves each and every one of us. Created in the Image of God, we recognize the incalculable value of human lives. No matter the stage of life, we confess that every human being has a right to life, deserving dignity and love.
Below you’ll find essays, apologetics, and heartfelt letters all in support of God’s gift of life.
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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 sum total of its ...
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?
A Lutheran response to issues in bioethics is always one of Law and Gospel. Law is necessary to constrain the weak from outward sin, ...
Transhumanism: Humans Without Bodies
Transhumanism puts faith in technology and holds onto the hope that humans can conquer death and become immortal without ...
Stem Cell Research: Theology
Christians are neighbors to the unborn embryo. Because we are forgiven by His grace through faith, the relationship that God has with ...
Smuggling Theology Into Discussions of Ethics
Ethical relativism in issues of bioethics betrays a serious fault. It does not make allowances for the Judeo-Christian vision of the ...
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 technology enables us to be ...
Informed Consent
Christians who give informed consent have an opportunity for faith in God’s care through their time of weakness. Being under God’s ...
Genetic Engineering
Respecting the integrity of genetic research and its outcome, as Christians we recognize the limitations God places on us as His ...
Can or Should?
When questions are raised of abortion, contraception, euthanasia, stem-cell research, in vitro fertilization, we look to the ...
Bios and Biology
In one sense, bioethics is something quite new, a development of the last half-century or so. The term itself is of recent coinage, ...
Bioethics! What Is It?
Bioethics is ethics applied to moral concerns arising out of the technology that involves decision-making about our ...