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What the Bible Says about the Afterlife
I’ve been a pastor for twenty years. If there’s one thing people have questions about, it’s the afterlife. If there’s one thing people...
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Pro-Life as Social Justice
I find it very strange that the pro-choice side of the abortion debate is often portrayed as advocating for social justice. I find it...

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The Reformers on Abortion
Here are a couple more quotes on abortion from Di Mauro’s A Love for Life. These are from some well-known church reformers. From his...

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The Church Fathers on Abortion
I’m presently reading Dennis Di Mauro’s A Love for Life: Christianity’s Consistent Protection of the Unborn (Wipf and Stock, 2008), in...

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Saturated but Illiterate
We live in a day in the United States when it is easier to gain access to a Bible than ever before in any place or time in history. We...

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Abortion Against the Handiwork of God
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made....

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Murder for Hire
Many people may not know that Planned Parenthood, a leading provider of abortions in the United States, is a for-profit organization. ...

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A Christian Vision of History and the Lordship of Christ in Education
I’ve been reading and thinking lately on what it means to have a Christian view of history. What is history and why should we study it as...

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Independence and the Christian Worldview
It has become popular, as of late, to publicly criticize Christianity as that which poisons everything. This claim has been made...

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It is a curious thing…
…that people wonder why so many children are drugged for acting like monkeys after having been taught that they descended from apes. If...

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Burger King, Western Culture, and the Lordship of Christ
I thought about calling this post “The importance of studying Greek mythology for Christian parenting and discipleship.” But that would...

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Christian Humanism: Getting a Handle on the Term
In chapter 1 of The Christian Criticism of Life, Hough lays out the uses and misuses of the term humanism. He concludes that the only...

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unChristian
1. Any program that suggests charting a course for Christianity based on the perceptions of outsiders ought to be approached with...

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From Death to Life
The interview below features former director for Planned Parenthood Abby Johnson, who became a strong pro-life advocate after assisting...

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Holy Abortion? by Gorman and Brooks
RCRC is self-described as “the interfaith movement for choice” whose primary work is in education and advocacy for the pro-choice...

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Part of the Problem
I got a call today from a salesman for a company called Bluefish TV. Among other things, they sell DVDs and video downloads of...

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Translation Matters
It’s always fascinating to me when theological questions usually reserved for the seminary classroom find their way into popular...

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Therapeutic Church Slogans
During my holiday travels in recent days I observed a number of signs in front of churches with slogans that publicized a characteristic...

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Abortion and the Apostolic Voice
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and...

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Jim Wallis, Abortion, and the Prophetic Voice
Christianity Today published an interview with Jim Wallis in May of this year discussing a number of his views on issues like abortion,...

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