“Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord” (Eph. 5:22). There are two major views about this injunction by Paul. Is this a universal principle or a cultural construct? Complementarianism The first is called complementarianism. It is the view that men and women have different but complementary roles and responsibilities in marriage, family,…
Category: Ethics
Ethics – What we do.
Responding to the Rise of Fascism
By Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie, reprinted by permission. If you’ve ever wondered how you might have responded to the rise of fascism in 1930s Germany, our times will provide your answer. Democracy is under attack in the United States, and so are human rights. To make matters worse, this attack is fueled in large part…
Homosexuality
“Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law” (Rom. 13:10 NIV). Love Love is not a feeling, it is the act of the will. It is aiming to choose the highest good of others equally with our own. Harm The purpose of the moral law is to eliminate…
Ordination of Women
“There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28). If there are neither male nor female in Christ Jesus, then why do we segregate women from the ministry? Apostle to the Apostles…
American Fascists for Christ
Political historian Robert Paxton defines fascism as: “a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cultures of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elitist, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with…