Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Mar 12, 2020 11:51 PM

Greg explains why a difference in size does not disqualify someone from being a person.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Mar 20, 2020 3:05 PM

Imagine you’re in a research lab when a fire breaks out, and you have to choose to save either a two-year-old or ten frozen embryos. Which do you choose?

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Mar 21, 2020 12:04 AM

The unhelpful term “human fetus” reverses our usual grammatical way of speaking about a stage of development and perpetuates fuzzy ideas about the identity of the unborn.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Apr 8, 2020 9:50 PM

People who create designer babies aren’t improving anyone or giving anyone a better “opportunity for a great life.” They’re creating many children and consigning all but one to death.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Apr 9, 2020 1:04 AM

If we are trying to discover our blind spots, we should be most suspicious of our culture ignoring arguments that human dignity is being violated in some way.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On May 20, 2020 8:45 PM

Amy shares why it makes sense to believe that a human has a soul at the moment of conception.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM

The argument that an acorn isn’t an oak but a potential oak isn’t true. How does this apply to humans?

Web Content Article · By Guest Author On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM

Here are some basic ethical distinctions by way of background. I won’t cover all the bases in the active/passive debate (active—taking lives, passive—letting die).

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

If alleviating suffering is the goal that has intrinsic value, and not the person itself, why could we not experiment on it so we can increase our scientific knowledge in a way that might alleviate...

Web Content Article · By Melinda Penner On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

That’s the challenge I’ve heard a number of times from advocates of starving Terri Schiavo to death. It usually comes in the conversation when what they’ve offered so far in the way of...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM

Why are human beings valuable? What is a human being? You have to answer those questions before you can say that this child isn’t a human being without value.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM

You believe that euthanasia should be allowed because it eases the psychological or physical suffering of a person. Is that correct?

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM

Think carefully about how you justify some moral actions because it could turn on you in another moral situation.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM

I was a new nurse on a new job. The night shift nurses were hard on the newcomers, and I was particularly easy to intimidate.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

What do Nancy Reagan, Michael J. Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, and Christopher Reeve all have in common? They have all aggressively promoted embryonic stem cell research (ESCR).

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for March 2009 There’s one fact about you I’m sure of: even though you’ll live forever, someday your earthly body will die.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM

It seems that sometimes, when it serves the story, the fact that life begins at conception is perfectly clear to both scientists and the media.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM

Wesley J. Smith called Princeton to account for hiring Peter Singer with his horrendous views on infanticide.

Web Content Article · By Melinda Penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM

Scientists have discovered in a recent study that it isn’t the mother’s body directing embryonic activity; the embryo determines that itself.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM

Normal people are capable of great evil. That’s all I could think as I watched this latest video exposing Planned Parenthood.

Web Content Article · By Guest Author On Oct 11, 2024 7:02 PM

In this clip from our Reality Student Apologetics Conference, Megan Almon uses a Polaroid photograph to illustrate how human life, though initially unseen, is valuable and fully present from the...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 25, 2019 5:44 PM

As Christians, should we be concerned with what happens to our bodies after we die?

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:47 PM

Alan responds to the question: If going to Heaven is so great, why do Christians want to prolong unhappy life on Earth?

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM

A fire breaks out in a fertility clinic. You have the choice of saving one two-year-old or 1,000 embryos. Which do you save, and what does that prove?

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM

Do pro-lifers really believe the unborn has equal value to the born if they’re willing to sacrifice the unborn when the mother’s life is in danger?

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM

If only our society would once again define compassion not as offering to help people kill themselves, but as offering to walk with them through a difficult time.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Dec 15, 2022 2:53 AM

A mélange is a mixture, a medley, an array of miscellany combined together for a common purpose. That is what you’ll find here—a potpourri of thoughts and reflections addressing issues that will be...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM

You may hear someone say, “I am a Christian. I believe that Jesus is my savior. He is the only way for me. But I can’t say He is the way for others.” Here’s why this confused confession fails.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM

Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about the age of accountability, knowing what Bible passages refer to us, and children trusting Jesus.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

One justification for the atheists’ claim to high moral ground is what seems to them to be the patently immoral conduct of the God of the Old Testament.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jul 25, 2020 6:08 PM

Questions about a zygote twinning, marrying when you don’t plan to have children, an apparent contradiction in Acts 21, and whether one ought to say something when a family member is making an...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Dec 22, 2020 7:25 PM

Questions about why it isn’t merciful to euthanize human beings as we euthanize animals and what “good” came from a specific evil that could outweigh that evil (and how God can be good if he let it...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jul 25, 2021 6:05 PM

Questions about what parents should do if their adult child threatens to cut off all contact with them if they don’t use his preferred pronouns and an appropriate response to the claim that “God...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Oct 30, 2021 7:31 PM

Questions about pulling the plug on life support, when it’s appropriate for Christians to stay and fight vs. leave, and whether vows of silence, poverty, and celibacy taken by Christian monks are...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Nov 27, 2021 10:08 PM

Questions about whether killing skin cells (which have human DNA) is murder, how to know when to stop engaging someone who is antagonistic, how to graciously decline to engage in a discussion with...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jan 15, 2022 12:15 AM

Questions about whether Hell is unjust because it doesn’t seek people’s rehabilitation and how to respond to someone who says we’re morally obligated as a society to have fewer children in order to...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Feb 19, 2022 9:42 PM

Questions about whether saying a woman should stay pregnant is a body violation equal to rape and how someone whose emotional doubt causes him to struggle with trusting God can turn his distrust...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Aug 28, 2022 2:39 AM

Questions about why it’s okay to have plastic surgery to alter your appearance but wrong to have surgery to alter your sex, whether a tactical, winsome approach is still viable in a non-civil...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Sep 1, 2022 5:54 PM

Questions about what approach to take with a professing Christian who is radically pro-choice and has rejected pro-life arguments, considering it all to be a matter of opinion.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Oct 9, 2022 5:21 PM

Questions about how we ought to respond to the indefinite storage or death of human embryos after IVF, whether pregnant women should be able to use carpool lanes, and whether it follows that we...