First Mary Ann Glendon. Now some students:

Protestant fundamentalists aren’t the only ones who practice separation.

I just listened to Justin Taylor’s Sunday morning sermon on abortion that he preached at his church on January 18, 2009. Three words come to mind:

1. Sobering
2. Convicting
3. Motivating

After listening to Justin’s sermon, I have the kind of feeling that I might have felt if I could have watched Schindler’s List while living near Nazi concentration camps while WWII was still in progress. How can this unspeakably horrific evil legally be happening all around me? What am I doing about it?

Cf. these posts on abortion by Justin Taylor and John Piper this month:

Justin Taylor’s Recent Posts on Abortion

1. Number of Abortions Since 1973
2. How Support for Abortion Became Kennedy Dogma
3. Conversation on the Gospel, Abortion, and Politics
4. World Magazine on Abortion
5. On Abortion and Gay Rights, Evangelicals and Liberals Join to Advise Obama
6. Why I Hate Sanctity of Human Life Sunday
7. An Open Letter to Barack Obama
8. Life
9. A Sermon on Abortion
10. Roe No More
11. One Simple, Practical Way You Can Make a Difference for Women and the Unborn
12. The Case for Life, Around the Web
13. Four Reasons You Might Be Aborted
14. Abortion and the Early Church
15. Moral Accountability
16. Abortion and Obama’s First Few Days
17. Amusing or Sad?
18. Piper Responds to Obama on Abortion
19. Being Pro-Life in a Culture of Death

John Piper’s Recent Posts on Abortion

1. Being Pro-Life Christians Under a Pro-Choice President
2. Lincoln’s Logic on Slavery Applied to Abortion
3. Holding A Miracle
4. Fifteen Pro-Life Truths to Speak
5. The Baby in My Womb Leaped for Joy

See also John Piper’s resources on abortion.

Robert George’s “Obama’s Abortion Extremism” is moving.

For a summary of Robert George’s impressive background as well as a summary of the article, see Justin Taylor’s “Robert P. George: ‘Voting for the Most Extreme Pro-Abortion Political Candidate in American History Is Not the Way to Save Unborn Babies.’”

Update (10/16/08): Robert George and Yuval Levin’s “Obama and Infanticide” argues, “Obama’s latest excuse for opposing the Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection Act is that the law was ‘unnecessary’ because babies surviving abortions were already protected. It won’t fly.”

This morning John McCain announced his VP: Sarah Palin.

Almost four months ago, Al Mohler highlighted the Palin family in an article (“Welcome to the World, Trig Paxson Van Palin“) and on his radio show (also titled “Welcome to the World, Trig Paxson Van Palin“).

Here’s a description of the radio show:

A little boy with an extra chromosome was born on April 18. His name is Trig Paxson Van Palin and his new home is the Alaska Governor’s Mansion in Juneau. His mom is Governor Sarah Palin, who along with her husband Todd, has welcomed Trig as their second son and fifth child.

On today’s show, Mohler explains why Trig’s very existence defies the Culture of Death and gives us all hope.

“If by chance you bear a child, if it is a boy, let it be, if it is a girl, expose it.”

Those chilling words are a husband’s instructions to his wife in a letter dated 1 B.C. (documented below).

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