The World We Made

In our final episode on abortion, our heroes have a few topics left to cover: sex-selective abortion, IVF, the global traffic in baby body parts. We live in a crazy sci-fi dystopian world. How do we navigate it? At the end of the day, how do we oppose abortion? One of the big answers is to find real leaders, not demagogues. And really submit to them.

Our heroes wade into the deepest of waters (these days at least): how to think about obedience (or disobedience) to the civil authorities vis-à-vis abortion.

We live in a world where horrible, wicked things are happening. People in our culture make them happen. Some of us have participated. All of us are complicit one way or another. How do we deal with that?

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The pro-life movement has some wonderful people doing wonderful things. But it's also attracted the worst kind of charlatans. In this episode we examine all of it--the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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“I’ll hide my scars” by Repulsive.

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Abortion is easy to refute. No, really. Some of the arguments sound good but the minute you shine any light on them they're really crummy. In this episode we go quickly through every argument for abortion and dismantle them all, including old (but challenging if you're not prepared) canards about the life of the mother or rape and incest. By God's grace, maybe this episode will prepare you to do the same.

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We live in a world that murders its babies. People that we know have murdered their babies. People in our churches have murdered their babies. Tim talks about the kinds of experiences he has had as a pastor ministering to such people. And Jake and Nathan and Ben trace the history of how the church has responded to abortion.

Nathan and Ben try to tally up the staggering numbers of babies killed by abortion. It's well nigh impossible especially when you count chemical abortion. Meanwhile, Tim discusses his early years as a pastor in a denomination (and a Christian culture) that was willfully blind on the issue.

Read the Evangel statement on abortion (which has all the facts and figures Nathan and Ben alluded to) here.

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Game Show Music by Colin Thompson.

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When Roe V. Wade hit in 1973, the American evangelical church was, like, seriously unprepared. It took us years to catch up. What happened? Why was nobody ready to hit this issue head on? Why were the Catholics ahead of us? What was the deal with that? Are we any better equipped now, as the battle continues to rage in a post-Roe-world? These are some of the questions that Tim, Jake, Nathan, and Ben begin to open up.

Pastor Tim offers hope for fathers who feel hopeless. If you've ruined everything with your sin and failure, this one's for you.

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Tim tells the story of his relationship with his own father.

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