ethics

Christian cultural commentator David French published an article yesterday in which he wrote: “The longer I live the more convinced I am that our Christian political ethic is upside down." Dr. Tim Keller agrees.

The widespread cultural breakdown we see around us cannot be explained by a mere loosening of morals, or the wrong political party being in power, a pandemic, or our response to it.  What we are seeing is the catastrophic emptiness when life is built on the wrong foundation.

A prominent theologian and a well-known bioethicist say they see no ethical problems with the world’s first successful pig-to-human heart transplant – and they both believe the field holds much promise for the future of medical science.

Financial expert Dave Ramsey says Christians who own property as landlords should not feel guilty about raising rental prices – provided they aren't overcharging, and they work with tenants in difficult situations.

Earlier this week, The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) urged President Joe Biden to allow faith leaders to provide input on the ethicality of artificial intelligence (AI) development.

The fashion industry continues to struggle with wage gaps and sustainability, according to a report from an Australian Christian watchdog group. The Baptist World Aid Australia’s 2021 Ethical Fashion Report scorecard rated roughly 100 fashion companies, which averaged a score of 33.6 out of 100 compared with all industries the group tracks.

The Vatican is currently debating whether it is ethical for people in wealthy countries to receive COVID-19 booster shots while people in poorer countries have yet to receive even one shot against the virus.

There is no such thing as “ethical porn use.” Porn is premised on the notion that human beings can be abstracted from their personhood and consumed as collections of body parts. Porn assumes and trains consumers to believe that people are products to be bought and sold, and then discarded with the click of a mouse or the flick of a finger.

The Holy Spirit will guide us and give us an answer if we ask for wisdom. Wisdom is knowledge applied. When we know the situation of a company’s beliefs, we then apply that knowledge if we should support the business or not.

In this week’s What Would You Say? video, my colleague Brooke McIntire walked us through ways Christians can think about gene editing, and here’s what she had to say: