Kirk MacGregor discusses his Journal of Biblical Literature article “The Pro-Choice Biblical Ethic of American Evangelical Scholars before the Religious Right.” MacGregor’s article is focused on understanding the historical context of and changes since the 1968 Protestant Symposium on the Control of Human Reproduction. Resources mentioned or recommended in this episode include MacGregor’s book A Historical and Theological Investigation of John’s Gospel; historian Randall Balmer; Brave New People: Ethical Issues at the Commencement of Life; author Letha Scanzoni; “The ‘Biblical View’ That’s Younger than the Happy Meal”; Thy Kingdom Come: How the religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America; Broken Words: The Abuse of Science and Faith in American Politics; Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right; “The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth”; “How Evangelicals Decided that Life Begins at Conception”; and novelist Amy Gentry.

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