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 | 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...
by John Ensor | Sep 2, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Blog, Food for thought
In Psalm 139 verse 13, David sees that his personal history as a living, distinct and whole human being started in the womb. He sees a “me” in there being made personally by a divine “you.” Elsewhere in the Bible, you see the same thing. Consider Genesis 4:1:...
by John Ensor | Aug 16, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Blog, Food for thought
Between 1882 and 1968, nearly 3,500 Black Americans were lynched in the United States. Among them were Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, murdered in Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930. The night before, they had been arrested and charged with the armed robbery and murder...
by John Ensor | Aug 2, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Blog
What’s in the Book?On the occasion of Pope Francis’ arrival in the U.S. last summer, Whoopi Goldberg raised the question of abortion and the Bible. While many Americans do not acknowledge the Bible as an authoritative source, many of us do. And you can be sure...
