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If you've noticed that nothing seems to last anymore, you're not alone. We are living in an age of impermanence. Even children have become disposable, but the problem goes all the way back to the beginning. Since the world is passing away, what’s a "good" Christian to do? Blithely sing hymns and wait for God to whisk us away to heaven? Probably not. Here’s why.

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"The Jesus I was raised to believe in loved women and was a beacon of support and love to impoverished people. He'd be ashamed of [your opposition to abortion]." That's how one Canadian woman put it following her abortion. Here's the question, is she right?

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For what looks to be the first time in history, a father has sued the abortion clinic that killed his unborn child and won. How could that happen in a nation and state where abortion is legal? It can happen if the abortion in question was performed illegally. According to the Arizona judge who tried the case, it was.

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Track 11 on Switchfoot's new Forever Now! album contains a metaphor so simple and profound that we really need to talk about it. Without mentioning abortion, it testifies to the humanity of children in the womb. And without getting religious, it reveals how shortsighted it is to simply assume that nothing awaits us beyond the grave.

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The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Frederica Mathewes-Green’s “Let’s Have More Teen Pregnancy,” and Sheldon Vanauken’s A Severe Mercy. Let’s talk about them all, and why the old vices were better than the new.

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Pro-life luminaries Scott Klusendorf and Seth Gruber find themselves on opposite sides of the "Equal Protection" debate. Their respective arguments (and recent articles) leave us with a lot to consider. Does justice demand that we prosecute mothers for the crime of abortion, or does wisdom demand that we take the victories we can get?

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The existence of evil in a world made by a good God isn't all that hard to explain. But how can evil exist in a world where believers with even a modicum of belief are promised anything they ask for in prayer? Have you ever thought about why that is and what it says about our faith?

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Massachusetts' reported abortion total for 2024 is shocking and unprecedented. It's double the reported total from 2023 and triple the total from 2020. Then there's this. The vast majority of Massachusetts' 2024 abortions occurred out of state on women who live out of state. How is that possible? Good question.

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England's total fertility rate has fallen to an all-time low. An unsustainable low. Meanwhile, it pays to abort nearly a third of its unborn children. And almost all of those abortions now occur apart from any hospital, doctor’s office, or abortion clinic. They happen in the mother's own home, because it's now easier in Great Britain to have an abortion than it is to see a doctor.

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