We take a preliminary look at ethics Strange as it may seem, the original Greek word “ethos,” from which our word ethics is derived, is related to the barnyard. The word “ethos” can be traced back to the meaning of “stable” or the “stall” of barnyard animals, so that “ethics in the human area” does for us “what the stall […]

At a seminar for pastors one of the speakers, a psychologist, noted that the Reformation movement sparked by Martin Luther assumed that people had a sense of guilt and a deep desire for atonement. He argued that today this is clearly not the case. As he put it, “In our modern culture most individuals are […]