Dear First Lady Michelle Obama, So much discussion about abortion is in the news today in anticipation of a Supreme Court decision that is expected to return legislation on abortion to the states.  In this regard, I note with regret your comment, "State lawmakers will have the power to strip womxn [xic] of the right to make decisions about their bodies and their healthcare."  Might I briefly clarify four matters of biology? First, a child in the womb has a different, though related, DNA from the mother.  Therefore, a choice to abort the child is not a choice about the mother's body so much as about her son's or daughter's body.  The child inherits one chromosome from each parent, making a separate individual.  Any decision to take the life of the unborn child is a decision about the child's life.  Stripping a woman from the so-called 'right' to make decisions about terminating someone else's life is hardly a decision about her own body.  Inciden

  We seem, at long last, to have reached the end phase of Evangelicals leaving mainline denominations. The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia voted on 10 May, 2022 on their understanding of marriage.   A Biblical and historical Christian understanding of marriage between a man and a woman was rejected—not by the laity or the clergy but by the bishops in a vote 12-10.   The response of the orthodox Christian bishop and chair of GAFCON Australia, Richard Condie, and the text of the defeated statement on marriage, may be found here . Various issues arise around this failure of the Anglican bishops, but one is the ongoing fellowship of orthodox Christians with false ‘brothers’—a problem Paul dealt with clearly and decisively in 1 Corinthians 5.   This false partnership has followed every mainline denomination over the past half a century at least, and the result is always the same in the end: after a great loss of membership, the denomination eventually splits.   The purpo

As Christians, our witness to the culture involves speaking and living out our faith in the public square even when the cultural context is opposed to us.  This involves our view about life itself being a gift from God, even before birth.  We have, therefore, remained consistently opposed to abortion through the centuries and distinguished from many cultures on this issue.  (Only in recent times have the post-Christian, mainline denominations (and rebellious individuals like Joe Biden or Nancy Pelosi) approved of abortion and other ethical views that are nothing more than an adoption of the present-day culture and a rejection of Scripture, historic Christianity, the Church, and God Himself.) Various cultures find ways to make killing the innocent morally right, even a moral duty.    The conclusion is what is important; the reasoning is irrelevant--only some path chosen to get there.    Abortion is not merely permitted; it is made into a moral good.    It is justified by the culture, th