Human Heart and Brain Development

    From its inception when sperm and egg fuse to the pinnacle of adulthood, human life develops according to the intricate craftsmanship of a divine Creator. The unfolding of cells into diverse tissues and the orchestration of complex structures into their correct...
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A Just Man

    Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame,...
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NEWSworthy: What Right Do We Have to Take Our Own Lives?

    This article originally appeared on the Washington Examiner’s website on Dec. 6, 2024. You can read the original here. ___________________________________________________________________________________   Do we have a right to die? Support for assisted suicide...
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For Us and For Our Salvation

    A pastor who has been at it for a while knows that the main event every December is the Christmas Eve Service of Worship. In that service, Isaiah 9:2-7 is stirringly read; and Luke 2:1-20, on the birth of Jesus, joyfully declared. Then the Word is preached. And Holy...
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Personalism as the Fullest Response to the Flawed Anthropology of the Sexual Revolution and Identity Politics

    Two of the most pervasive cultural ills of our time, identity politics and the fallout from the sexual revolution, are best understood if we consider them deeply intertwined. Both of these problems flow from the same disordered font, a flawed anthropology that views...
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A Makeover in Human Understanding?

They got me, they got me—and dead to rights, I must acknowledge. I am identified by the management as a Human Life Review friend and contributor of goodness-knows-how-many-years’ standing: grateful to be standing anywhere at this stage of life, in which the competence of people...
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Euthanasia, the Looming Frontier

    The reports from Canada are particularly disturbing. “Medical Assistance in Dying” is the term used there—MAiD it is called—and in the few years since the Canadian supreme court found a fundamental right to demand medical assistance with one’s death, the numbers...
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Who Is Speaking Up for the Unborn?

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Nov. 14 that he had selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Given Kennedy’s history of supporting abortion, this nomination should concern pro-life advocates, argues Joe Carter, a...
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Witness to the Truth

    This year the last Sunday in November (in the Catholic calendar) is the last Sunday of the Christian year, the feast of Christ the King. Twenty-first century Christians believe in Jesus Christ as King though most do so with little understanding of the nature of real...
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Wyoming Judge Finds ‘Right’ to Abortion in State Constitution

    A Wyoming judge has once again found a reason to block the state’s lifesaving laws. Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens said the state constitution prohibits two laws in Wyoming, the Life Act and Medication Abortion Ban. Judge Owens read a “right” for a woman...
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