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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

We Want What We Want

27 Jun 2018

One evening in 1787 a young English M.P. pored over papers by candlelight in his home beside the Houses of Parliament. Wilberforce had been asked to propose the Abolition of the Slave Trade although almost all Englishmen thought the Trade necessary, if nasty, and that economic...

The Business of Bribery

16 May 2018

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood. And all the people shall say “Amen” (Deuteronomy 27:25). It is hard to imagine anyone objecting to the Old Testament forbidding bribery in the service of murder. One would think such a law would be axiomatic in...

Woven by God

07 May 2018

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the...

Rest in Peace Alfie Evans: Matters Sacred and Irreversible

30 Apr 2018

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

Most who read this will know that 2-year-old Alfie Evans, who suffered from a mysterious neuro-degenerative disease, died last week, the UK Supreme Court having ordered life support be removed and, despite the desires of Alfie’s parents, forbidding him to receive treatment...

Engaging a Broken World

26 Mar 2018

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

“How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (John 4:9) The following reflections are on John 4, which concerns a Samaritan woman who came to draw from a well at noon (which many have suggested meant that she was trying to avoid others who would...

The Vanishing Down Syndrome Children

19 Mar 2018

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

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 the presence...

What We Refuse to Know

07 Mar 2018

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

So they answered Jesus, “We do not know” (Mark 11:33). Sometimes we don’t know things because we don’t know them. Sometimes we don’t know things because we don’t want to know them. Sometimes we trifle with the things that we should take most seriously. The Pharisees ask...

Engaging an Abortion-Hardened World

26 Feb 2018

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

Nathan said to David, “You are the man!” (2 Samuel 12:7). I am always amazed that, having committed adultery with Bathsheba and killing Uriah (2 Samuel 11), the Lord had to send Nathan the prophet to convict David of his sin. If ever a sin was obvious, it was David’s....

Prayer and Perseverance

14 Feb 2018

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. So the law is paralyzed, and...

God Sees Her

17 Jan 2018

Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

“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 might call the issues of life, particularly abortion and euthanasia/assisted suicide. Speaking of our culture’s...

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Rev. W. Ross Blackburn

We Want What We Want

The Business of Bribery

Woven by God

Rest in Peace Alfie Evans: Matters Sacred and Irreversible

Engaging a Broken World

The Vanishing Down Syndrome Children

What We Refuse to Know

Engaging an Abortion-Hardened World

Prayer and Perseverance

God Sees Her

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