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

God Sees Her

14 Sep 2026

This piece was originally posted on Aug 21, 2023 ________________________________________________________________ “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me” (Genesis 16:13). Recently, I was speaking to a friend over lunch, a woman who has given herself to what we...

A Prayer for the Vulnerable

18 May 2026

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

prayer

This reflection was originally posted on October 21, 2024. ___________________________________________________ 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,...

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The Logic of Abortion

04 May 2026

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

abortion, Motherhood, self-sacrifice

Love must be learned. Which is why there is no better example of love in our world than that of mothers, who both love and learn to love by giving themselves to another—often at great cost. It is also why pro-choice culture is so deeply destructive. For a culture that is all...

The Cost of Independence: A Christmas Meditation

22 Dec 2025

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

Christmas and being alone, Death with Dignity, human connection

[This text has been slightly adapted from Rev. Blackburn’s Pastoral Reflections meditation published Dec. 22, 2017.] And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger (Luke 2:12). Why does the Church make so much of...

The Tongue of the Taught

17 Nov 2025

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

Prophet Isaiah, the art of listening

(This piece was originally posted on October 23, 2015.) __________________________________________________________________ The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he...

A Song for the Weary

20 Oct 2025

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

abortion-weary world, Forgiveness

Come to me, all who weary and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls (Matthew 11:28-29). If you would, take the time you would normally spend reading...

SYMPOSIUM: What’s God Got to Do with It?

13 Jun 2025

Alexandra DeSanctis, Anne Hendershott, Cecily Routman, Charles Camosy, David Mills, George McKenna, Gerard V. Bradley, Helen Alvaré, Jack Fowler, Joseph Bottum, Monica Snyder, Rev. W. Ross Blackburn, Victor Lee Austin, Wesley J. Smith

Abortion and belief in God, atheism, religion, secularism

The Human Life Review editors invited the participants on the following pages to contribute a reaction to the statement below: In the decades between Roe v. Wade and Dobbs, most prolifers believed that Americans were more or less opposed to legalized abortion on demand...

A Way of Escape

19 May 2025

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

abortion as temptation, reasons for choosing abortion

This post originally appeared on this website on Feb 3, 2017. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you...

Down Syndrome Day?

24 Mar 2025

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

Down syndrome Day

Have you ever wondered why we see so few children with Down syndrome today compared to past generations? The single biggest reason is that in the United States roughly 9 out of 10 babies are aborted if they are diagnosed with Down syndrome as a result of prenatal...

Makers of Men

03 Feb 2025

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

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...

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Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

God Sees Her

A Prayer for the Vulnerable

The Logic of Abortion

The Cost of Independence: A Christmas Meditation

The Tongue of the Taught

A Song for the Weary

SYMPOSIUM: What’s God Got to Do with It?

A Way of Escape

Down Syndrome Day?

Makers of Men

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