Results tagged “abortion”
The Religious Hell Hole (08/05/09 - 103 Comments)
Several months ago I received an email from a person who had happened by this blog. As you will see in the excerpt of that email, she had been searching for information about original sin and its application to babies who die in infancy (or who die because of abortion). Google led her here. This is what she wrote: I volunteer at a pregnancy resource center here in Southern California. I teach a post abortion...
The Intentions of Providence (04/27/09 - 21 Comments)
"As [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' Jesus answered, 'It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him' (John 9:1-3)." And, of course, Jesus spits on the ground, creates mud, has the man wash away the mud and performs a miracle...
The Case for Life (04/14/09 - 23 Comments)
There was a time when my mother was actively involved in the pro-life movement here in the Toronto area. I have many memories of journeying downtown with her, taking the subway and bus with mom, so we could volunteer in some way in the fight against abortion. I have fond memories of it, mostly. At times, though, I am prone to despair as it seems that in the twenty or twenty-five years between then and...
Why Are We Striving To Make Abortion Unthinkable? (01/22/09 - 34 Comments)
This is a guest post from John Ensor. ***** Today I join hundreds of thousands in Washington, D.C., in the annual March for Life to publicly lament the death of 50 million preborn children and to pray for the day when abortion becomes unthinkable. In doing so, I acknowledge the resistance, even offense, taken by many by asserting that abortion is the moral issue of our day. I am familiar with the claim that asserts...
The Moral High Ground (10/22/08 - 43 Comments)
Yesterday I received an interesting email from a reader of this site. He had a question about abortion and, specifically, about abortion in the case of incest and rape. Here is an excerpt of his question: We're not living in a theocratic nation like the Old Testament Israel. Whether we like it or not, we're living in a democratic nation where people of varying beliefs, not God, make the laws. To what extent, then, can...
Heartbeat of Miami (07/21/07 - 12 Comments)
Around here we know John Ensor as the author of a couple of books I've reviewed: The Great Work of the Gospel and Doing Things Right in Matters of the Heart. But there's more to him than his books. Last year he took the position of Executive Director of the Urban Initiative Program of Heartbeat International. He is now leading an initiative in Miami, Florida called Heartbeat of Miami, working in an area that has...