Christian Ethics

Well, as this year’s Fair Trade Fortnight launches, I suppose ‘Are we there yet?’ isn’t a bad question to ask.

Has the choice to abort become too easy? And what is the church saying on the matter?

Ruth Dearnley, CEO of Stop the Traffik, continues the 200 year old protest against the buying and selling of people.

The debate over social welfare has once again been thrown into the spotlight, but are we asking the right questions?

Family violence offences in Christchurch jumped by over 50 per cent after the Canterbury earthquake on 4 September.

How should we relate to one another within church communities?

Sixty-five years ago—in two blinding, flesh-searing flashes of light—atomic bombs blasted the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Rev Wallis calls the Church to turn from a privatised narcissistic faith to better serve the poor and protect God’s creation.

Is the Army out of step in maintaining its total abstinence stance as a condition of church membership?

What if we were to employ the language and practices of the 'Twelve Step Programme of Alcoholics Anonymous' to reframe our economic recovery?

Meeting needs and standing up for injustice is in the Army’s DNA.

Despite our considerable economic problems, New Zealand is still a great place to live.

A review of the Army’s history can help us understand why such a counter-cultural position became so important and how it might be relevant in today’s world.

As New Zealanders count the high social, medical and personal cost of alcohol abuse, The Salvation Army prepares to take on the liquor industry.

New developments in technology not only raise new problems for consideration, they also raise new questions concerning the definition of life itself.

Experts in overseas aid and development argue that a sequence of events have occurred that has led to the growing food crisis.

The development of a child up to the age of seven will significantly impact the adult they become.

It is a fact that aging affects everyone from birth to death. It is also a reality that many perceive this natural progression with extreme negativity.

The challenges don’t lie with how we fund our retirement incomes or how we provide better health services to an aging society.

The credit-debt is casting a long shadow on the futures of nations, communities and individuals.

An excerpt from a Discussion Document exploring consumerism and what we feel is ‘rightly ours’.

The ‘sexualisation of life’ has made sex into something that it is not.

This Talk Sheet draws upon various sources to provide information for Salvationists on the topic of stem cells taken from embryos.