One of the things we have picked up on in our Home For Christmas series is the way that Mary makes a home for Jesus, initially in her heart, head and indeed in her very body as she carries him in her womb. This has striking implications for us. As well as the reminder that… Continue reading Making a home for a baby
Tag: abortion
What should be our next step in the abortion debate?
I recently explained, here, why I would not be signing a petition which calls for abortions to be banned once a heartbeat was detected. However, I thought it would be helpful to talk more about the kind of debate we should be engaging in and how we should seek to move it forward. I believe… Continue reading What should be our next step in the abortion debate?
Why I’m not signing the heartbeat (abortion) petition
I was recently sent a link asking me to sign a petition calling for abortion to be outlawed except in some fairly restricted circumstances once a heartbeat is detected. I won’t be signing the petition or encouraging others to and I thought that it might be helpful to flesh out why, not least because abortion… Continue reading Why I’m not signing the heartbeat (abortion) petition
How do we make the case against Assisted Dying to those who don’t share our Christian worldview
One of the things that comes up in my conversations with other Christians about beginning and end of life ethics is the difficulty of engaging with people who don’t share our worldview. We know that we are made in God’s image and so share equal dignity. We know that God is sovereign, is life and … Continue reading How do we make the case against Assisted Dying to those who don’t share our Christian worldview
Signals: Please don’t exclude us from the conversation about assisted dying
Whenever we speak, write or act, we are communicating far more than we may realise. When we speak, there is the content we communicate but there are also other signals we are sending out and they may be communicating far more. Sometimes those signals communicate things we would desire to say even if we are… Continue reading Signals: Please don’t exclude us from the conversation about assisted dying
Can we impose our values onto everyone else?
We may conclude that Christians should be against abortion and euthanasia based on what the Bible teaches us about God, ourselves, creation and new creation. However, does this mean that we can impose this value on the rest of society? If the democratic majority think that assisted dying is okay, or even if this is… Continue reading Can we impose our values onto everyone else?
The case for life part 2. Assisted Dying and what the Bible says about Creation and New Creation
In part 1, we looked at how what we believe about God and about us (humanity) shapes our ethics when it comes to abortion and euthanasia. There are four key questions that I encourage people to think about when making practical and ethical decisions. In this article we are going to look at the second… Continue reading The case for life part 2. Assisted Dying and what the Bible says about Creation and New Creation
The case for life (and against abortion & Euthanasia)
In the Uk we have seen two recent votes in the House of Commons touching on the beginning and end of life. First, an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill intending to decriminalise abortion for women in the case of their own pregnancy will have the affecting of enabling unregulated abortion up and to… Continue reading The case for life (and against abortion & Euthanasia)
Bad legislation makes for bad law
This is the first of a series of new videos responding to recent UK House of Commons debates and legislation on abortion and euthanasia.
Evil, absolute evil and abortion
I thought it might be helpful to revisit the discussion about “absolute evil” and abortion to think through more carefully about how we think about things. As a refresher, the debate was as to whether the recent amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill removing reference to a other aborting her own child should be… Continue reading Evil, absolute evil and abortion
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