Entries Categorized as 'Ethics'

How We Can Help Those in Japan

Date March 13, 2011Posted by Roger Overton

By now we’ve all seen the images, the videos, the interviews and reports. We know that the devastation in Northern Japan is vast and brutal. Thousands have died, tens of thousands are injured, and hundreds of thousands have been displaced. As Christians especially, it’s important for us to reflect not only on supporting the victims, [...]

Living the Gospel Through Adoption

Date March 25, 2010Posted by Roger Overton

This is one of the many reasons I love my church. Jason and Melody Lietzau are leaving to pick up and adopt their special needs daughter with a heart condition today from China.  In this video, shot this past Sunday, the couple details how they decided to adopt after a miscarriage and how Melody’s pacemaker [...]

The Virtue of Pride

Date August 31, 2009Posted by Roger Overton

Many of us have been led to believe that pride is the root of all sin, and we can find this notion in Christian literature at least as far back as St. Augustine. In essence, every sin can be reduced to some form of pride; an attempt to say to God, “I know better than [...]

Ownership and Virtue

Date June 14, 2009Posted by Aaron Snell

My family and I have been on vacation this week doing the cross-country road trip thing.  My two boys, ages 3 and 5, are really great travelers, which makes these trips surprisingly fun.  One of the things that a trip like this does, however, is bring out the occasional sibling tensions.  We try to eliminate [...]

Why It’s Wrong to Kill an Abortion Doctor

Date June 2, 2009Posted by Amy Hall

If abortion is the killing of an innocent human being as pro-lifers say, is it right to kill an abortion doctor–a guilty human being who has been and will be involved in these killings?  I think most pro-lifers intuitively have a strong, negative reaction to this question, even if they can’t articulate precisely why such [...]

The Virtuous Case for Christ & C.S. Lewis

Date February 22, 2009Posted by Roger Overton

A couple of years ago I wrote a paper called “The Virtuous Case for Christ: How C.S. Lewis’s Theological Virtues Should Aid Christians Living in a Postmodern Culture.” I presented it first at the “C.S. Lewis: The Man and His Works” conference at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC October 27, 2007. I [...]

T4G 08 Video Online At Ligonier.org

Date January 25, 2009Posted by David N

The videos of all speaker addresses and panel discussions from this year's T4G conference are available online for free at Ligonier.org (for a limited time).  These conferences are amazing, encouraging (and often humorous) and it would be well worth your time to watch the videos (if you don't have a lot of time, just watch [...]

Our New President And Abortion

Date November 19, 2008Posted by David N

Thanks to Aaron Gleason for passing this link along to me. I sure am glad that we Evangelicals have moved on to caring about more important social issues. Because if we still cared about protecting the unborn, we'd be in rough shape right now. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/viewarticle.php?selectedarticle=2008.10.14_George_Robert%20P._Obama's%20Abortion%20Extremism_.xml Like I said…please pray for Barack Obama. 

Clarifying Proposition 4 (Parental Notification) Arguments

Date November 3, 2008Posted by Roger Overton

Californians have been subject to a variety of ads for and against Proposition 4 over the last few weeks. Since most of the ads I’ve seen are misleading, I thought it might be helpful to shed some light on the arguments that have been made from both sides. A summary of Prop 4: Prop 4, [...]

Playing Politics With Same-Sex Marriage And Undermining A Free Society

Date October 25, 2008Posted by David N

S. T. Karnick has written a piece for Salvo Magazine that is worth reading.  It may be the most reasonable appeal to the Same-Sex Marriage camp I've ever read.  The issue, it’s important to remember, is not whether society will allow homosexuals to “marry.” They may already do so, in any church or other sanctioning [...]