The Human Life Review Rev. W. Ross Blackburn Archives

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn, who lives with his family in Tennessee, has been a pastor in the Anglican Church in North America for 20 years. He has a PhD (Old Testament) from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and has written articles for the Human Life Review and Touchstone, as well as educational materials for Anglicans for Life. Rev. Blackburn and his wife Lauren, married for 31 years, have shared homeschooling responsibility for their five children.

bio updated April 2024

Makers of Men

03 Feb 2025

Jean Marshall, Paulette Harlow, St. Francis of Assisi, Trump pardon of pro-lifers, Will Goodman

You may have heard that President Trump recently pardoned several prolifers who were arrested and jailed for peacefully praying/protesting at abortion clinics. Kayleigh McEnany of Fox News interviewed three of them: Paulette Harlow (who was accompanied on set by her...

A Just Man

16 Dec 2024

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

adultery, Joseph the Carpenter

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,...

A Prayer for the Vulnerable

21 Oct 2024

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

prayer

Sometimes it is difficult to know how to pray, and we are helped by the words of others. The following is a prayer for the vulnerable, particularly the unborn, taken from Psalm 35. Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with the vulnerable—children who cannot contend for...

When Freedom Is Bondage

09 Sep 2024

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

choices, transgenderism

No one really believes in utterly free, unfettered choice. There are good choices and bad choices, and an enduring challenge in life is to know the difference. There are choices that we forbid ourselves and others to make. For instance, I have a legal right to drive my car...

The Slide to Abortion

21 Jul 2024

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

Forgiveness, King David, temptation

Perhaps you know this Old Testament story (2 Samuel 11). King David, on his roof after a nap, spied a married woman, Bathsheba, bathing on her own roof below. Admiring her beauty, he sent for her and lay with her. Shortly afterward, Bathsheba sent the king word that...

The Lame, the Blind . . . and the Pregnant?

03 Jun 2024

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together; a great company, they shall return here. (Jeremiah 31:8) In considering...

Burial of a Queen

24 Apr 2024

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

adotion, cerebral palsy, children with disabilities, inherent worth of children, large families

God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in...

Back to Go Forward

04 Mar 2024

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

perceptions of the unborn throughout history, The Story of Abortion in America book

C.S. Lewis, the Cambridge medievalist and philosopher, had a rule-of-thumb: Read two old books for every new one. By so doing, one can avoid “chronological snobbery,” by which he meant unreflectively assuming we know better than those who have gone before us. We are...

Martin Luther King—In His Own Words

15 Jan 2024

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

civil rights, Martin Luther King, Racism, segregation

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, I thought I’d offer some quotes from his “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” written from a prison cell to the clergy in 1963. Parts of the letter have become well known, such as King’s insistence that “Injustice...

Live Not by Lies

04 Dec 2023

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

pro-choice culture 2023

My son and I are reading through a biography of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, the Russian writer and dissident who exposed to the world the brutal and then hidden underbelly of Soviet brutality, and who pleaded with the world—East and West—to “live not by lies.” This...

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Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

Makers of Men

A Just Man

A Prayer for the Vulnerable

When Freedom Is Bondage

The Slide to Abortion

The Lame, the Blind . . . and the Pregnant?

Burial of a Queen

Back to Go Forward

Martin Luther King—In His Own Words

Live Not by Lies

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