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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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?
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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).
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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?
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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?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
Greg talks with Rosaria Butterfield about her conversion, sexual identity, and the Christian’s union with Christ.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM
Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about the pro-life answer when the life of the mother is at stake, and suicide.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about knowing truth and euthanasia.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about “death with dignity,” the Mosaic Law passing away, and Jesus as myth.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Alan Shlemon fills in for Greg today and answers questions about God commanding the death of unborn babies, ungodly spirituality in movies, and an aspect of humanity a materialist would have...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Responses to Jesus being a prophet, why the Bible doesn’t allow homosexuality, and IVF procedures.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg talks about end of life issues, referring to God as she, and science and a Designer.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Questions about the burning fertility clinic challenge to the pro-life view, God’s free will, reading your horoscope, and whether believers will accept “the mark of the beast” without...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Greg answers questions about “the sin that leads to death” in 1 John 5:16-17, whether one can be a Christian and be pro-choice, and what Jesus did for nine months in the womb.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Greg answers questions about whether the pro-life syllogism proves too much, whether the Bible says life begins when we take a breath, and why Cain didn’t receive capital punishment.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Greg answers questions about arguments for moral realism and the moral obligation to accept long-term medical interventions to prolong life.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 14, 2023 7:44 PM
Questions about why we can euthanize pets to end their suffering but we can’t do the same for people, how to talk to a six-year-old about biblical marriage when she’s been told same-sex marriage is...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 10, 2023 6:56 PM
Question about how Christians should view surrogacy.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Greg answers questions in 4 minutes or less on heresy, being on the “right side of history,” and the Planned Parenthood videos.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Alan responds to an article claiming that women’s equality can’t exist until the government doesn’t regulate a woman’s body, in the same way it doesn’t regulate a man’s body.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Alan describes the significant shift that is occurring in our society that affects how human beings are valued.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Alan discusses how he created the confidence in Christians to share their pro-life convictions with anyone.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that early embryos aren’t individual human beings because some of them can twin and then even recombine.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
What does the FDA and smoking have in common with the pro-life movement? Find out in this edition of “Thinking Out Loud”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that pro-life advocates are inconsistent if they favor the death penalty.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Alan discusses his monthly letter for October 2013.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan answers the question of whether killing an abortionist to protect the unborn is parallel to killing a person who attempts to murder a toddler.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Alan explains why embryonic stem cell research is not only morally problematic, but ineffective at treating disease and disability. Instead, he offers a scientific alternative.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Greg talks about if God can sin, how to respond to an atheist who says he just believes in one less God, why Greg uses straw men arguments against the young earth view, whether the Bible...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Alan interviews Steve Wagner, Executive Director of Justice for All, a pro-life organization that teaches people how to engage pro-choicers in persuasive conversation.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Alan speaks about pro-life persuasion, the Trinity, the Qur’an, and Beauty and the Beast.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Greg talks about helping children learn to navigate the new complexities of adolescence then answers questions about the audience for the Gospels and how to discuss fetal homicide laws in class.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Greg talks about how reality is never outdated, the trend to redefine pro-life away from the child, what the arguments are for God sustaining the universe, what a Christian’s view about...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
Greg talks about pro-life in the public square, spiritual warfare in the trials of life, if a church’s emphasis on “hearing from God” is a criterion to consider when choosing a church, and a...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Host: Greg Koukl Guest: Alan Shlemon on Students Engaging in Pro-life Dialogue
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