Memorial Day is a holiday devoted to memory. Memory is a super-power that human beings have, the ability to summon to our present consciousness the experiences of the past.
Memorial Day is a holiday devoted to memory. Memory is a super-power that human beings have, the ability to summon to our present consciousness the experiences of the past.
Abortion existed throughout human history, including the ancient world. And Christianity has consistently condemned abortion and fought for the protection of unborn children. Here is evidence from the early church.
Here is a haunting song from Simon Khorolskiy. What other new music would you recommend to the Cranach community?
The Southern Baptist Convention and some prominent evangelicals supported legalized abortion in the years just before and after Roe v. Wade. Earlier, though, evangelicals had a history of opposing it. And due to Francis Schaeffer and others, evangelicals soon awoke to the evil of abortion, joining with Catholics to form the modern pro-life movement.
A European can't get his mind around America's culture wars. He says that Americans have more in common than they realize. He critiques both the Left and the Right, who also agree in repudiating Western Civilization. Actually, though, they differ about what Western Civilization is.
Traditionally, says Michael Warren Davis, weddings were seen as a beginning, the start of a new family. That was reflected in everything from the wedding gifts, designed to start a household, to the honeymoon, the couple's initiation into sex. Today weddings tend to be seen as an end, a "settling down" after finally finding the right romantic partner.
"Normalization" is both a sociological and psychological phenomenon and a self-conscious tactic in changing culture. Behaviors that once violated social and moral "norms" are portrayed as "normal." And the previous "norms" are portrayed as "abnormal."
George Orwell's classic essay "Politics and the English Language" is a must-read for all citizens, exposing as it does the deceptions and evasions of political rhetoric. A supreme example is the language manipulation of the pro-abortion movement.
This weekend, to build up the Cranach community and to exercise our faith, let us pray for each other. If you would like prayers for yourself, your family, someone you know, or a situation you are aware of, just say so in the comments. Whereupon other readers will pray for you. This will launch a new custom: You may interrupt any post or discussion thread with requests for prayer.
Abortion advocates are changing the language that is politically-correct for discussing abortion. "Pro-choice" is out, because it is racist and "implies that abortion isn't a good thing." Just say "pro-abortion." Or, better yet, call it "health care." So proclaims Planned Parenthood and the House pro-abortion caucus.
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