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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 Need Men

17 May 2019

Boys say when. Girls say why. Boys get mad. Girls they cry. I quote the chorus of an old song by The Producers, a band I listened to in high school. Although too young to understand what the words meant, I did wonder about them. Now, having lived longer and seen more,...

What We Need

29 Apr 2019

W. Ross Blackburn

climate change

Last month, Utah Senator Mike Lee gave a bold and, for many, wildly counterintuitive speech about the Green New Deal in which he concluded that The solution to climate change is not this unserious resolution, but the serious business of human flourishing—the solution to so many...

The Vision of the Good

02 Apr 2019

W. Ross Blackburn

abortion

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live” (Exodus 1:22). A nation does not have to feel hatred toward children in order to kill them. It is enough simply for them to...

Lessons From Virginia

27 Feb 2019

W. Ross Blackburn

Letter of the Law v. Spirit of the law, Morality

Amidst all of the press concerning the proposed abortion bill in Virginia, there were two matters that grabbed my attention, each saying something important about our country. The first was the call by many prominent Democrats for Governor Ralph Northam’s resignation after a...

The Power of Pro-Life Witness

14 Feb 2019

W. Ross Blackburn

March for Life, Pro-Life Movement, Women's March

Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these...

The Psychology of Evil

31 Jan 2019

W. Ross Blackburn

pro-choice

He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net. The helpless are...

When the Church is silent, we display our true loves (When the Church is Silent, #10 of 10)

31 Dec 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

church

You shall not covet (Exod 20:17). Defending the vulnerable—the fatherless and the widow—is costly. It is costly because people who profit by oppression will not stand by idly and allow their darkness to be exposed, but will fight back when their interests are threatened....

When the Church is silent, we support the killing of the vulnerable (When the Church is Silent, #9 of 10)

14 Dec 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

church

You shall not bear false witness (Exod 20:16). “Verbicide must precede homocide.” The sentence is from Paul Greenberg, an American journalist. What he means is that, in order to do the unthinkable, we must convince ourselves that the unthinkable is acceptable. We do...

When the Church is silent, we revisit the sin of slavery. (When the Church is Silent, #8 of 10)

03 Dec 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

abortion, slavery

You shall not steal (Exod 20:15). The natural bent of the human heart is to possess that which is not ours. James said it well: “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have,...

When the Church is silent, we support sexual immorality (When the Church is Silent, #7 of 10)

06 Nov 2018

W. Ross Blackburn

church

You shall not commit adultery (Exodus 20:14). Adultery is a gospel matter. How so? Because God made man in His image—male and female (Gen 1:26). Because the union of a husband and a wife is a picture of Christ and the Church (Song of Songs; Eph 5:32-33). Because this is so,...

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W. Ross Blackburn

We Need Men

What We Need

The Vision of the Good

Lessons From Virginia

The Power of Pro-Life Witness

The Psychology of Evil

When the Church is silent, we display our true loves (When the Church is Silent, #10 of 10)

When the Church is silent, we support the killing of the vulnerable (When the Church is Silent, #9 of 10)

When the Church is silent, we revisit the sin of slavery. (When the Church is Silent, #8 of 10)

When the Church is silent, we support sexual immorality (When the Church is Silent, #7 of 10)

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