This past fall the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies hosted their 5th annual conference and the theme this year was: Baptists and War. Here is the plug for the conference: War, like poverty, seems to be a constant feature of human life. And in recent days, “wars and rumors of wars” seem to be [...]
Category: Christian Ethics
By Richard Weikart – [Editor’s Note: This is the third article in a series of three. Read part 1 and part 2.] One point that I explain in my book, From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany, aroused considerable controversy, and it flamed up even more after Ben Stein interviewed me [...]
Does the gospel impact how we think of people of other racial and ethnic groups? John Piper, in his recent book, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian, argues that it does. Andrew Wencl writes in his review, I was born in the 1980s. My generation has grown up in an increasingly diverse and integrated America [...]
By Richard Weikart – [Editor’s Note: This is the second of three articles by Richard Weikart. Read part 1: How Evolution Challenges Christian Ethics, by Richard Wikart.] Peter Singer, one of the most influential bioethicists in the world today, is famous for supporting abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia, especially for the disabled. He has written many [...]
