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#STRask: October 23, 2017

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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#STRask: November 2, 2017

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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#STRask: December 7, 2017

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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#STRask: June 11, 2018

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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#STRask: June 23, 2016

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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#STRask: February 13, 2017

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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#STRask: January 14, 2019

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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#STRask: January 28, 2019

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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#STRask: February 14, 2019

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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#STRask: April 11, 2019

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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#STRask - July 27, 2020

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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#STRask - January 4, 2021

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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#STRask - July 26, 2021

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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#STRask: Is It Ever Okay to Pull the Plug on Life Support?

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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#STRask: Since Skin Cells Have Human DNA, Would Killing Them Be Murder?

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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#STRask: Are We Morally Obligated to Have Fewer Children?

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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#STRask: Is Saying a Woman Should Stay Pregnant a Body Violation Equal to Rape?

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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#STRask: Why Is It Wrong to Have Surgery to Alter Your Sex?

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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#STRask: What Would You Say to a Professing Christian Who Is Radically Pro-Choice?

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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#STRask: Should We Object to People Storing Embryos Indefinitely after IVF?

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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#STRask: Why Can We Euthanize Pets but Not People?

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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#STRask: What Is the Christian View of Surrogacy?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 10, 2023 6:56 PM

Question about how Christians should view surrogacy.

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#STRask: August 24, 2015

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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#STRask: Is an Embryo a Baby?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 25, 2024 2:52 PM

Questions about whether the fact that you can freeze an embryo but not a baby proves an embryo isn’t a baby and whether it would be wrong to use IVF with genetic testing to avoid carrying a baby...

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Do Pro-Lifers Want the Government to Regulate a Woman’s Body?

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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Upholding the Value of Disabled People

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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The Pro-life Mission

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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Are early human embryos individuals if they can twin?

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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The Power of Graphic Images

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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Pro-Life and Pro-Death Penalty?

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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Leverage That’s Global

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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Pro-life Killing: An Oxymoron?

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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Must we kill humans to save other humans?

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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Interview: Steve Wagner, Justice for All

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.