by John Ensor | May 5, 2020 | Biblical Thinking, Blog, Culture, Food for thought, Missions
Getting Back to Dangerous Living and Cross-Bearing Work COVID-19, death, social-distancing, recession, trillion-dollar spending, lost civil liberties, lost income—does not all this leave us sad beyond words? How will we move forward? Can we return to normal? Grieving,... 
by John Ensor | Nov 22, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Blog, Culture, Food for thought, Missions
In Oradea, Romania, Mihaela and Gabby Visan run a pregnancy help center inside a women’s hospital. Their effectiveness is severely limited by one fact: women must pay for their abortion before they can talk to anyone, committing them to abortion, even if they arrive... 
by John Ensor | Nov 7, 2019 | Biblical Insights on Abortion, Biblical Thinking, Blog, Culture, Missions, Music
Percy Bysshe Shelly once said, “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” In A Defense of Poetry, he explains, “The great secret of morals is love, or a going out of our nature. . . . To be greatly good, [a man] must put himself in the place of another.... 
by John Ensor | Nov 1, 2019 | Biblical Thinking, Blog, Culture, Food for thought, Missions
Almost eight years ago, I wrote to encourage the church to pray for the Third Wave. I argued that the end of abortion as a business would be in sight when the prolife movement was not only joined, but led, by Black and Latino Christians. I was wrong, at least... 
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 20, 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)? Previously, we noted that it is accepted practice within the field of crisis...