A Pastor’s Reflections was created in 2015 by Reverend W. Ross Blackburn, who has been a pastor in the Anglican Church in North America for 20 years, and a longtime contributor to the Human Life Review. It was then expanded to Pastoral Reflections, with contributions from a variety of clerics and religious who write on abortion and other grave moral transgressions that not only hurt individuals but deform the culture and threaten religious liberty. We are expanding again, this time to include the lay faithful, in our new feature Faithful Reflections. We look forward to continued wisdom from our pastors as well as thoughtful reflections from those for whom faith is foundational. 

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The Ascension of Jesus

  Later this week, Catholics and many Protestants will celebrate the Ascension of Jesus, and you may hear these readings from St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians: May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know … what is...
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The Logic of Abortion

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...
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Doubling Down on Dignity, for Life

    The struggle to defend human life in all its developmental stages and biological conditions, particularly for defenseless and discarded persons, will not find its footing in the drifting sands of uncertain moral intuitions that...
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Life Advice: It’s Greek to Me

  At my New York high school in the 1970s, Brother Andrew would tell a joke to incoming freshmen: “I used to know a little Greek  . . .  but he died.” As street-smart teens, we rolled our eyes, but he knew better than we did. At class...
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Striving for the Smell of Heaven

  For prolifers and everyone else, telling the truth is much harder than finding fault. Academia, for example, is filled with brilliant insights, but they are diluted with banal critiques of other professors. Religious and political...
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This Easter, Expect the Best

    It is typical of human nature, that when people meet with something unexpected, they tend to suspect the worst. A man and his wife come home from a trip and find their back door unlocked. They suspect a robbery. But then they find...
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About Face: A Very Short Story

  It was a sweltering summer day. After graduating from college, then teaching for a year in a public school, he was finally able to have a block of time to do some long-delayed reading. Sitting in a lawn chair in the back yard and getting...
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Resurrection Scars

    The gift of life has a paradoxical heart, in that the lives we have been given are, every one, mortal lives. I speak here as a Christian: to be a witness to life entails witnessing to mortal life, life that ends in the sadness and...
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Why Would Mary McAleese Attack Infant Baptism?

  In Shakespeare’s last play “The Tempest,” the island creature Caliban is enslaved by the exiled Duke of Milan who teaches him speech. Caliban used his new skill to curse his master, saying, “you taught me language and my profit on’t is I...
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