@lukegeraty
This is about as close to my current feelings as possible. A pro-lifer struggling with much of the methodology and current cultural challenges…
I have been pro-life my whole life
It drove our decision to adopt 3 children
We have donated to Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Until recently it has driven our voting
Yet I have not been able to celebrate
#RoeVsWadeOverturned—a former dream—like I thought I would.
Why?
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I think The Faith Once Delivered has maybe the best and most concise statement I've ever read linking the importance of Jesus' full humanity with His life in the womb. Super important as I see "Wesleyans" committing Christological heresies left and right. We aren't heretics. 1/4
Yeah… especially since I know a lot of people who have adopted children DUE to their faith…
Every Christian I know is committed to a full-orbed culture of life. They are pro-life from womb to tomb. The whole "Christians are only interested in babies until they are born" is a weak, tired, and intellectually dishonest trope.
There is theological significance here. It’s why I can respect Orthodoxy, which has a similar approach to Eucharist.
I serve at an old church. When the waters of the baptistery are drained, they flow through a pipe to be released out onto the church cemetary (visibly). There is something poetic about that.
Powerful reminder about our need to be careful with our words.
I wasn’t fearful of my abortions until I became a Xian in 1990. That’s when I heard it was the “unforgivable sin.” That’s when I heard ladies in Bible study say, “God will not bless those with babies who’ve once aborted. They won’t deserve them.” +
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