by John Ensor | Oct 25, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Blog
I have learned something in recent years. People come to cherish words like atonement and justification when you expose them to other words like bloodguilt and reckoning. I’ve tried to teach gospel-centric words effectively as stand-alone concepts. It has produced a...
by John Ensor | Oct 17, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Blog, Crisis Intervention, Missions
All the women in your life have to be 80 years old or more to have gone through their child-bearing years during a time when abortion was not legal and accessible. Among the rest, 42% of American women have had one abortion by the age of 45 (abandoned or pressured, by...
by John Ensor | Oct 11, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Blog, Embryology, Food for thought
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are you works; my soul knows it very well.” Psalm 139:13-14 The Bible describes David as a man with many talents. He was...
by John Ensor | Oct 4, 2019 | Blog, Crisis Intervention, Culture, Food for thought
What do we learn from the professional field of Crisis Intervention, or Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) that especially informs the work of pregnancy crisis intervention (PCI)? In this final installment, let’s consider what the abortion training textbooks...
by John Ensor | Sep 27, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Blog, Crisis Intervention, Food for thought
What do we learn from the professional field of Crisis Intervention, or Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) that especially informs the work of pregnancy crisis intervention (PCI)? In Crisis Intervention: The Volunteer Game, I outlined how It is recognized...
