A Pastor’s Reflections was created in 2015 by Reverend W. Ross Blackburn, Rector of Christ the King, an Anglican Church in Boone, North Carolina, and longtime contributor to the Human Life Review. Now the feature, renamed Pastoral Reflections, will carry contributions from a variety of clerics and religious who, along with Rev. Blackburn, will meditate on abortion and other grave moral transgressions that not only hurt individuals but deform the culture and threaten religious liberty.

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Jim and Faith McFadden: Faithful Servants of Truth

    The 50th Anniversary Dinner of the Human Life Review was held on November 13th at the Union League Club in New York City. I was privileged to be present. It was a wonderful gathering of friends who all agree that there is nothing...
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Into the Silence

    There is something about the deep darkness of a cave that brings a hush over everyone who enters. Last week, in our ongoing effort to explore our new home in the Southwest, we visited Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Seeing the...
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Partisan Rivalries and Salvation

    The editors at Human Life Review asked me to prepare this entry for November 4, the day prior to the election. In addition to affecting the country at all levels, federal, state, and local, our elections attract the attention of...
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Attorney General Garland: Ideals without Accountability

  On September 12, 2024, United States Attorney General [AG] Merrick Garland addressed the closing session of the 85th Annual US Attorneys Conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.  DOJ employees were invited to attend this...
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A Prayer for the Vulnerable

  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...
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Friendship and Life in the Book of Job

  I am increasingly persuaded that we find the best example of friendship in the Old Testament in the Book of Job (not in the stories of David and Jonathan). Job has three friends who, when they hear about his calamities, arrange to go together...
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