Lind, Christopher2019-09-252019-09-252009-06-2420079782825415160http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/173426In this paper I have been asked to respond to two papers presented at an earlier conference. Both deal with the ethics of leadership in families. The first paper, by Rachel Xiaohong Zhu from the People’s Republic of China, reviews the concept of family relationships and duties in the Confucian tradition and compares that with the changes going on in China today as a consequence of westernisation and modernisation and also as a consequence of China’s one child policy.1 The second paper is by Richard Ondji’i Toung from Cameroon. 2 He reviews the concept of the family, as is understood by the Fang people of southern Cameroon. He is particularly concerned with the breakdown of assumptions about how traditional leadership roles should be carried out and what resources Christianity may have to offer in this situation. Both papers pay very close attention to the questions that emerge from their geographic and cultural context and both take for granted that families are biological. I want to respond by paying close attention to my context and the questions that emerge there. I am a Canadian academic theologian with special expertise in Christian social ethics, specifically ethics and economics, born of English and American immigrant parents. I am a lay Anglican, who worked for almost 20 years for the United Church of Canada, a 20th century denomination formed from the Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian traditions.Pages: 10engWith permission of the license/copyright holderleadershipfamily ethicsChristian ethicsIntercultural ethicsCultural ethicsCultural/intercultural ethicsMethods of ethicsTheological ethicsCommunity ethicsLifestyle ethicsSocial ethicsFamily ethicsBook chapter