Contemporary Social Issues

Two hundred years since the abolition of the slave trade a new trade has taken its place: the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploita...

Is living an ethical life primarily about following rules or about the kind of people we are? The authors of this book argue that faithful Christi...

Stay True to Your Faith In today s secular culture, we face mass tactics deployed against us by shady players, greedy corporations, and wicked reli...

Man cannot live by bread alone says Jesus. When stated so simply and starkly this truth seems obvious; yet so much of late twentieth century life u...

This is the true story of an undercover investigator's experiences infiltrating the multi-billion-dollar global sex industry. It is a story of tri...

Our world is broken and cries out for reconciliation. But mere conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough. What makes real reconciliation ...

'Malcolm Duncan pleads with the Church to recognise that we cannot change the world on our own. And he challenges those who have dismissed the teac...

As debate over the manipulation of human genes rages in the public sphere, James Peterson offers an informed Christian defense of genetic intervent...

"This work will serve well as a textbook for college- and seminary-level ethics courses and as a trustworthy guide for pastors, lay leaders, and al...

Recent US and UN reports document the startling incidence of human trafficking in the world today. Yet the situation is hardly new. The fact that ...

Craig Detweiler's collection of up-to-the-minute essays on video games' theological themes (and yes, they do exist!) is an engaging and provocative...

Because the New Testament was written in a distant social, cultural and religious setting, interpreters often find themselves embroiled in heated c...

These sermons of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, edted by Dr. Michael Eaton - an expert on Lloyd- Jones theology, were preached at Westminster Chapel at a time...

Respected Bible scholar Ron Rhodes, author of The Coming Oil Storm, addresses another timely issue with integrity in this exploration of how over-d...

The ‘failed’ asylum seeker. Confused. Bewildered. Hungry. Cold. Scared… Or… Illegal. Criminal. Guilty. Cheating. Dangerous. Which is it? Dave Smith...

This book addresses the universal theological dimension of reconciliation in the context of the Israeli Messianic Jewish and Palestinian Christian ...

The complex and constantly evolving world of bioethics poses important questions for today's Christians. Since issues such as assisted dying and st...

'Until we begin to offer the lost souls of our consumer culture that abundant delight that is woven into the fabric of creation and is none other t...

This fascinating critique of the Church's varying response to the use of force over the centuries gives Christians a greater understanding of the c...

The failure of political institutions, including national governments and the United Nations, to mitigate climate change reflects the modern consti...

Globequake is a well-reasoned guide to navigating the spheres of our lives in a godly manner, even as those spheres wobble on their axes.

God invites us to judge and to help correct wrongs from a place of understanding. Sometimes we pre-judge a person based on our own biases and super...

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Jim Bakker offers insight into the importance of community among believers, showing how we need to help each other through the tough times ahead.

Does religion cause war? It is often claimed that religion is responsible for more wars, more global conflicts and more deaths than any other facto...

Christians believe in a God who is 'the eternal Spirit', in a Saviour who is 'the same yesterday, today and forever', and that 'the Word of the Lor...

John Day explores the psalms that appeal to God for curse or vengeance, and the relevant New Testament teaching, to offer a biblical defence of the...

This volume offers biblical perspectives on humanness, infertility, the quest for the perfect child, genetics, biotechnology and stem cells, aborti...

Our prevailing culture, with its absence of certainties, is a haven for a vast diversity of views and theories, opinions and life-style choices. Co...

A reasoned response to the contemporary moral debate about homosexuality, taking into account the latest medical and social scientific research, an...

The Bible is full of law. Yet too often, Christians either pick and choose verses out of context to bolster existing positions, or assume that any ...

The closing years of the last century saw a dramatic heightening of anxiety about the environment. Global warming and the depletion of the ozone la...