Category: ethics

Just a game?

The latest scandal to hit the General Election campaign has been allegations that senior Conservatives including some candidates along with police officers with access to number 10 successfully placed bets on the date of the election.  As with other sleaze scandals, other parties have their problems too with one Labour candidate placing a bet against… Continue reading Just a game?

The election and immigration

Immigration was always going to be one of the big issues in this General Election Campaign.  Rishi Sunak made that so when he made “stopping the boats” one of his key objectives and pushed ahead with the Rwanda policy.  His opponents were going to be happy with this given that the Tories had been promising… Continue reading The election and immigration

Pensions, social care and an honest election conversation about the future

In 2017, Theresa May in effect blew up her own election campaign by attempting to tackle the question of social care.  The taxing question was about how we meet the rising cost of supporting an increasingly elderly population.  Her focus was on the bill for providing residential care for those who needed support in day… Continue reading Pensions, social care and an honest election conversation about the future

Good for the economy?

D day draws closer for voters as we approach the 4th July General Election.  Previously, I’ve argued that: I said that I’d return to look in a little more detail at some of the big questions facing us.  At a General Election, these tend to involve: There are also the big ethical issues such as… Continue reading Good for the economy?

Marriage, mutual submission and headship: what does it look like in practice?

In Ephesians 5:22-32 Paul instructs: Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord … Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” In a previous article, I argued that this was a fleshing out of 5:21 and the instruction to “submit to one another.” … Continue reading Marriage, mutual submission and headship: what does it look like in practice?

Is marriage the State’s business?

My friend Steve Kneale has written here about marriage arguing that churches should not be conducting marriage ceremonies, but if they do, they should only do so for church members.  Well, personally I sit loosely on whether or not you should have a church wedding and whether or not churches should perform them. I don’t… Continue reading Is marriage the State’s business?

Useful Idiots? Social Justice, critical theory and the evangelical church

In a podcast for Evangelical Times, Sharon James discusses Critical Theory with Mike Judge,  The blurb suggests that: Dr Sharon James says Critical Theory and the ideas of the Social Justice movement are the single biggest moral threat to our society. She says church leaders should not act as “useful idiots” by embracing its language… Continue reading Useful Idiots? Social Justice, critical theory and the evangelical church