Practical Christian Living

FAMILY: With Contemporary Issues on Marriage and Parenting concludes the three-volume series on marriage and sexuality published by the Biblical Research Institute. Some topics that are addressed in the book are: “Romantic/ Love Marriages and Arranged Marriages: Biblical and Sociocultural Perspe...

Does the Bible Support Same-Sex Marriage? 21 Conversations from a Historically Christian View Preston Sprinkle. Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook, 2023. 237 pp. USD 19.99. There are available on the market a fair number of books that address the issue of homosexuality from a biblical-Christian...

Conspiracy theories seem to be flowering these days and have become the focus of much public attention. While conspiracy theories have always thrived during times of crisis and upheaval, they now seem to be all-pervasive in large segments of society and even in some quarters of the Seventh-day ...

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners notes that in 2020 corruption (defined as bribery, extortion, illegal gratuities, and conflicts of interest) was the most common fraud scheme in every global region of the world. The median loss for these schemes was $200,000. Thus, to assume that the...

Have you ever wondered what is “legal,” “ethical,” and “moral,” and what the differences are between these concepts? We struggle with these questions every day as business people. Laws continually change, ethics tend to drift with the tide of society, and morality is subject to interpretation. An...

As Seventh-day pastors, teachers, scientists, and administrators, we engage in research, teaching, preaching, and passing on to others what we have learned and discovered. In doing so we attempt to speak “the truth in love” (Eph 4:15, NKJV). But within our ranks there is a strangely underdevelope...

Recently, while traveling to Europe, my wife found an interesting article in a magazine, describing the behavior of modern women. Fortunately, a lady wrote the article. She illustrated her point by describing the breaking apart of a marriage. A former gold medalist and world recorder holder, who ...

If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. But if he does not listen to you , take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to t...

Ellen G. White counsels, “Keep your voting to yourself. Do not feel it your duty to urge everyone to do as you do”. But Adventists today, like many Americans entering the ballot box on November 8, are very much engaged with the political process. Both sides have predicted great calamity if the o...

The Biblical Research Institute Ethics Committee and the Question of Surrogate Motherhood At its September 2016 meeting, the BRI Ethics Committee discussed a request for an opinion on surrogate motherhood that provides children to homosexual couples. The committee felt that before moving on to the question of whether Adventist women should provide children through surrogate motherhood to homosexual couples, something needed to be said about the issue of surrogacy. The following document and its two major parts reflect the opinion of the BRI Ethics Committee. Ekkehardt Mueller