Portrait of an Intellectually Honest Atheist
Dinesh D’Souza, author of What’s So Great About Christianity, has written an interesting article in Christianity Today about bioethicist Peter Singer and particularly Singer’s honest embrace of the...
View ArticleThe Illiberality of Abortion
Laws permitting abortion on demand are often deemed to be liberal. Political liberals are frequently ardent defenders of such laws. My contention is that support for abortion on the grounds of...
View Article"Christian Fundamentalist Terrorism" and the Logic of Murder
Few public health issues are as deeply divisive as the issue of abortion. Even for Christians, the debate can often be considered too contentious or morally complex to be worth the entanglement. But...
View ArticleApologetics and effective dialogue
This last semester, a group of Auckland university friends and myself attended a rally on campus to help launch a student pro-life group. Whenever students seek to form a club under the umbrella of the...
View ArticleIs Exodus 21:22 pro-life or pro-abortion?
Exodus is a book in the Bible that describes the laws God issued to the nation of Israel as a part of his covenant with them. It was intended to regulate the lives of a people living in a distinctive...
View ArticleTen Reasons for Pro-Life Optimism
Trevin Wax offers ten reasons why those of us who believe unborn children deserve human rights can be encouraged: 10. Recent Polls 9. Abortion’s Treatment on Television and in Movies 8. The Revulsion...
View ArticleKlusendorf and Strossen Debate Abortion
[vsw id="26031452" source="vimeo" width="500" height="275" autoplay="no"] Scott Klusendorf is the President of Life Training Institute and author of the excellent book, The Case for Life. Nadine...
View ArticleAre there good reasons for abortion?
If you haven’t heard it already, this week’s episode of the UK radio show Unbelievable features a good debate between Madeleine Flannagan and Wendy Savage on the topic of abortion. Listen to the...
View Article180: The Good and the Not-So-Good
[pk_youtube_player width="560" height="315" align="center" autoplay="false" cover="" video_id="7y2KsU_dhwI"] Produced by Living Waters, 180 is a documentary showing Ray Comfort talking to people about...
View ArticleAre Christians hypocritical to support the death penalty?
In a previous post on abortion on my own blog, a reader named Matthew Lee raised the issue of how many pro-abortion advocates bring up the death penalty. By doing so, they hope to show that Christians...
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