Just for fun, how about I start off the week by pissing everyone off? And what better way to piss everyone off than by talking politics? Specifically abortion and politics. And even more specifically abortion, politics and the faithless Christian response to both. Now there’s a recipe for upsetting everyone! See – we’re having fun already! Almost since Roe v Wade was handed down 40 years ago, high profile (and many not so high profile) Christian preachers have been warning th

Let me be clear up-front: I do not support a right to abortion on demand. In fact, if I were made ruler of the universe, I would make abortions enormously difficult to get. Because I’m a mean and cruel woman. No, not really – I’m actually very kind and empathetic. But I am in agreement with Mother Theresa: “it is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live”. I don’t think abortion is an answer to what is really a societal failure. I don’t only oppose aborti

On the topic of abortion,this is the sort of message I think that God would have us spread: in a truly good, loving world that was running as God intended it to, no woman would have cause to seek an elective abortion.  I think that even people who support abortion rights would agree that it would be better if no woman ever found herself in a situation where the best solution she can find is to subject herself to a physically and often emotionally invasive procedure like the t