Abortion
Mercy at a Pregnancy Center by Melinda Gardner
Abortion is not a “Political Issue”: My Reflections on my trip to Washington by Brian Fisher
Reversing Chemical Abortions by Bradley Mattes
When Will Babies Killed in Abortion Get as Much Attention as Deflated Footballs? by Christina Martin
Abortion Activist: “Yes Babies in the Womb are Human Beings, But So What” by Sarah Zagorski
End-of-Life
Dutch euthanasia clinic has knuckles rapped over tinnitus death by Michael Cook
Erring on the Side of Life by Ken Connor
Family Living
Millions view time-lapse video of a mom’s entire nine-month pregnancy by Dave Andrusko
Developing Godly Qualities in Our Children by Randy Alcorn
When Your Children Stray from the Church by Chad Bird
Political
Rebecca Hamilton … A Tale of Two Citizens by Tony Lauinger
President Obama Flips on Government Funds Used for Abortion
Nancy Pelosi, Liberals Admit “Obamacare” Funds Abortion, Now That Republicans Voted to Strip Funding by Napp Nazworth
Worldview and Culture
God is Pro-Life by Professor Joseph Lau
Defining Human Dignity Down by Grace Olmstead
Russian Patriarch Says Halving Abortions Will Help Solve Population Crisis by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber
Methodist Head of “Human Rights” Mocks Pro-Life Marchers by Matthew Schmitz
This and That
Little Josie Sings “Old McDonald Had a Farm” – A cute, short video that was posted on Facebook.
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On Purpose, Creation & Life
by James M. Kushiner, executive director of The Fellowship of St. James (www.fsj.org)
I am a Creationist. I confess that God the Father Almighty is the Maker of Heaven and Earth and of all things visible and invisible.
I gave a workshop at the Eighth Symposium last Saturday: “Whatever Happened to Creation? How Scientism Stole the Show (and How to Get It Back).” In my prepared text I quoted from St. Basil’s Hexameron:
The philosophers of Greece have made much ado to explain nature, and not one of their systems has remained firm and unshaken, each being overturned by its successor. It is vain to refute them; they are sufficient in themselves to destroy one another. Those who were too ignorant to rise to a knowledge of a God, could not allow that an intelligent cause presided at the birth of the Universe; a primary error that involved them in sad consequences. Some had recourse to material principles and attributed the origin of the Universe to the elements of the world. Others imagined that atoms, and indivisible bodies, molecules and ducts, form, by their union, the nature of the visible world. … Deceived by their inherent atheism it appeared to them that nothing governed or ruled the universe, and that was all was given up to chance.
Chance creates? Not by itself. It could be called chance when a man and woman meet, say, on a train, such as in the film The Railway Man, and end up falling in love and getting married. The meeting may have been chance, but two agents with free wills take what chance presents and willingly participate in the unfolding of a relationship through a dance of longing, reticence, pursuit, openness, self-giving, wondering, anxiety, joy and commitment.
Leaving everything to chance, many materialists, atheists, and other practioners of Scientism insist, with Steven Weinberg, on the purposeless and meaninglessness of the cosmos. Yet none of them live without purpose or without resort to meaning. They write books to describe what reality is, and what it means or doesn’t mean. They have purpose when trying to dissuade a college freshman from religious belief.
If there is no purpose in the cosmos, where did these writers get theirs? Purpose and meaning exist between the two ears of each scientist and anyone who wonders at the mystery of the world.
In denying a Creator, men make themselves into gods, because they know in their bones they can decide, create, motivate, judge, seduce, destroy, and kill–and no God is watching them. Like the pagan gods. Such hubris can lead a society to commit genocide, war, pillage, or oppression. It leads to Roe v. Wade and 55 million deaths. (Big number: If every person attending any NFL football over the next three years were killed, you’d be close.) Isn’t human life sacred? Some is apparently more sacred than others.