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 Amy K. Hall On Jan 23, 2021 12:36 AM

What are the ethics involved with the COVID-19 vaccines? Can a pro-life Christian receive one in good conscience? Ryan Anderson can help you think through the issues.

Web Content Article · By Tim Barnett On Feb 18, 2022 11:20 PM

Many pro-choice advocates think this hypothetical scenario is a good argument against human life beginning at conception. The problem is, it doesn’t work. Tim Barnett explains why.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Atheists have the mistaken idea that objective morality is simply obvious to everyone, but the truth is, it’s not. All one has to do is look back through history (and in other cultures today) to...

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM

Most pro-choicers know the fetal human being is scientifically alive. What they’re really objecting to is the idea of intrinsic human value—i.e., the idea that every member of the Homo sapiens...

Web Content Article · By Melinda Penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

Christianity Today reports: [Scientists] have learned how to reprogram adult cells so that they can do many things an embryonic cell can do.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

Paul McHugh (former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins) explains why Hopkins stopped doing sex-reassignment surgeries.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

The Supreme Court’s decision on whether or not corporations like Hobby Lobby are protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act came down today. Here’s a quick summary.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

Here’s some good news, some bad news, and a warning regarding the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

The test was positive. He had cancer. The tumor was only six centimeters, but because it was in his trachea (his windpipe), it had almost completely blocked his ability to breathe.

Web Content Article · By Melinda Penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

I’m very sorry to hear that Brittany Maynard ended her life Saturday. My sincere condolences to her husband, family, and friends.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

“Death with dignity” distorts the truth as if those who let nature take its course are not dying with dignity.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

This month, Alan asks, “Must we kill humans to save other humans?“ and Brett talks about the reaction we should expect from the world, even when we’re loving.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

This past November I wrote that embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) had not led to any successful human treatments. I was wrong.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM

Years ago, I debated a physician-assisted suicide initiative. I was against it for what they considered religious reasons. Therefore, they thought I was forcing my religious point of view on other...

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM

Could you make a pro-life case that doesn’t employ religious reasons? Scott Klusendorf explains how to communicate a secular pro-life argument in two minutes or less.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

If we can convince people our value comes not from the abilities we’re expressing at a particular moment in time but from the kind of being we are, then a case for universal intrinsic human value...

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM

In a recent article in a science magazine, David Barash argues for creating “humanzees” in order to make a theological point.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM

There are some important questions about future medical decisions that you need to think through now so that your care will reflect both your wishes and the truth of Christianity.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM

Most people, including Christians, have not thought through the issue of in vitro fertilization carefully enough, and the results have been tragic.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM

Given the brave new world we live in, we can’t presume that medical technologies are consistent with Christian ethics. We must do our due diligence and investigate.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM

The common, accepted practices employed in IVF are shaping the way we view human beings in an alarming way.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM

Alan came across an unexpected similarity between C.S. Lewis’s case for Christ’s divinity and an argument for the humanity of the unborn.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Oct 3, 2019 9:27 PM

Amy explains why all humans are also persons.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Dec 12, 2019 10:26 PM

Does the fact that unborn children don’t breathe air mean they aren’t yet live human beings? Does the Bible teach this in Genesis 2:7, as some claim?

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jan 10, 2020 9:20 PM

Is there a legitimate dividing line between human persons and human non-persons? Greg explains why we need to be sure about the answer to this question.

Web Content Article · By Brett Kunkle On Mar 3, 2020 8:40 PM

Infertility is a reality for many and can be unimaginably painful. We need God’s grace to help us walk through such pain, and we need God’s truth to help us navigate the possible road ahead.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Mar 3, 2020 8:46 PM

“I could have ended up with one of these being gone, and the one that is gone could have been one of these.”

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Mar 4, 2020 8:14 PM

We have to recognize and then fight the human tendency we have to deny the value of people who are different from us. We have to teach intrinsic human value.

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 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...