Posted in Culture of Death on July 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It is now commonplace for people on both sides of the abortion debate to give lip service to the idea of working together to reduce the number of abortions performed. More and more in discussions of this issue, even people who claim to be pro-life will say the continued emphasis on criminalizing abortion is misguided [...]
Posted in Culture of Death on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Donny Pauling and I have been having a conversation about the role abortion ought to play in deciding how to vote in November. See his original post, then my first reply.
I’m posting Donny’s response to my open letter to him first. My second contribution to the discussion follows.
First Donny:
Dean,
I would challenge you to think outside [...]
Posted in Culture of Death, Religion on June 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Donny Pauling is a former porn producer who gave his life to Christ in recent years and ever since has been doing good work with the guys from XXXChurch. It’s been great to follow Donny’s journey on his blog where he details his struggles and the process of re-forming a life.
His post yesterday, unfortunately, [...]
Posted in Culture of Death on June 23, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Anyone who has paid even slight attention to the abortion debate has heard countless times the pro-abort claim that the fetus is not a person. If it is not a person, we are free to kill it if we decide we no longer want it, they say.
Every marker pro-aborts have put forward to signal the [...]
Posted in Culture, Culture of Death, Religion on June 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Whenever a presidential election rolls around, we begin to hear tales of that most reviled of political creatures, the single issue voter. These people, we are told, elevate a “single issue” out of its reasonable place and cease to think about the larger political picture. They focus on their pet issue to the exclusion of [...]
Posted in Culture of Death on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the abortion lobby’s most nefarious rhetorical moves has been to hinge the abortion debate on the question of whether the fetus is a person. By putting this question at the center of the discussion, they have guaranteed that little can ever be done to stanch the tide of blood their actions have loosed.
The [...]
Posted in Culture of Death on May 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Certain errors are easy to make for those of us passionately committed to the pro-life cause. Those of us who know what abortion really is, who feel the weight of living in a culture that has murdered 50 million of its own children, can begin to let the horror cloud the precision of our thinking.
One [...]
Posted in Culture of Death on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
As I continued to ponder Tim Roemer’s endorsment of Obama, I was struck by the significance of this quote:
Roemer told MSNBC that :
Despite his opposition to abortion, … he has come to believe that the all-or-nothing approach that both parties have advocated over the years has created gridlock across the policy spectrum, from health care [...]
Posted in Culture of Death on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
The battle for Indiana’s Democrat delegates has forced some of her “pro-life” democrats to show where their true loyalties lie. Not surprisingly, they don’t lie with protecting the lives of the unborn.
Growing up in Indiana teaches a young man not to pay much attention to presidential primaries. As a kid interested in ideas and [...]
Posted in Culture of Death, Religion on September 20, 2007 | 5 Comments »
My previous post about worship in the context of a culture of death generated quite a few responses. Unfortunately, a number of them seemed to miss the point to varying degrees. So, I wanted to toss up this post to help clarify.
Some people seemed to get caught up in the examples, rather than focusing on [...]
