Flushing the Pill: The Dangers and the Decision to Refuse Them

I providentially came across this brother’s blog (a fellow Southern Seminarian) tonight and was very encouraged by what I read. Indeed, the Lord is changing hearts…
“One of the most dramatic flip-flops of the past year has been my view on birth control pills. Previously, I had no problem with such a friendly form of contraception. [...]

The Value of Children and the Global Fame of Jesus Christ

I had the awesome opportunity to run into Mr. Brent Nelson from the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood last week as I stopped by their office in Louisville, KY. I had no appointment, and really had little more than a half-brain-stormed idea that I brought with me to discuss, but Mr. Nelson was extremely [...]

Ignoring the Obvious in the Great Commission: Who’s going, and who are they going to?

“And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And [...]

From the Doctor’s Desk: Abortion in the 19th Century

The most popular home medical reference book in the early nineteenth century was William Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, reprinted 28 times in America from 1770-1850.
In the section, “On Rules of Conduct during Pregnancy”, Buchan wrote:
“The dread of public shame or private scorn, though no excuse for murder, may urge the victim of seduction to commit a [...]

One Thing Abortion Advocates Have Right

“It’s difficult to imagine abortions ever becoming rare, especially in the absence of comprehensive sex education and widely accessible contraception, but we should perhaps expect abortions to become unsafe and illegal, while still common.” - Wendy Kaminer, abortion advocate, Op-Ed, June/July 2006 Free Inquiry magazine
One thing nearly all abortion advocates have right is the link [...]

The Lie in the Abortion Numbers

“THURSDAY, Jan. 17 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. abortion rate has reached its lowest level in three decades, according to a new report released Thursday.
“We don’t know why,” said study author Rachel Jones, senior research associate at the Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit group that focuses on reproductive issues.”
(HT: Between Two Worlds)
Apart from my own research [...]

Birth Control in light of Redemptive Theology

Where so many Protestants go wrong in deliberating the morality of contraception is their failure to distinguish between creation and nature. As Brent Waters comments in his work, Reproductive Technology:Towards a Theology of Procreative Stewardship, “Although creation is good because of the imprint it bears of its creator, and its created order has been vindicated [...]

The Democracy of the Dead: In Response to the Arrogant Oligarchy of the Living

What do they know? Calvin, Luther, Wesley, and centuries of other great theologians of the Church — they never had access to RU486 (the abortion pill), so how could they really be against abortion? They never had the birth-control pill, so whatever birth-control they preached against was short-sighted, and out of touch with modernity, right? [...]

Stop Lying in Worship: Justice is More than a Good Line in a Gospel Song…

On this blog, it’s not an uncommon occurrence for me to address the failings of “contemporary evangelicalism” as a whole, painting with broad strokes and illustrative generalizations, the bleak picture that the American church has found itself in. However, today I’m bringing it home; to my own front door. Conservative Reformed Protestantism, lend me your [...]

Luther and Natural Law? What hath the Reformer to do with Aquinas?

In his recent book, Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things, J. Daryl Charles notes:
“It should be emphasized that Luther is perfectly content to allow the natural law and righteousness that comes by faith to stand side by side. The Protestant Reformers as a whole did not perceive general revelation to be [...]