What Does It Really Mean to Be Pro-Life?
Editor's Note: Originally published on Stefan Weathers' blog on April 6, 2023.
With Women's History Month ending last week and this week being Holy Week, the week leading up to Good Friday and Resurrect...
Launching Next Week! Shane Claiborne’s “Rethinking Life”
Introduction
An Invitation to Love Life
I grew up in the heart of the Bible Belt, in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. I fell in love with Jesus there. Sunday school, youth group, Young Life, Fellowship o...
Buddy Stouffer’s Execution Was the Last of 2021. Will It Be the Last to Be Proved an Error?
On Thursday (Dec. 9), Oklahoma executed Bigler “Buddy” Stouffer, a 79-year-old deeply committed Christian who has maintained his innocence since being convicted of murder in 1985. It was the last execution sche...
Buddy Stouffer’s Execution Was the Last of 2021. Will It Be the Last to Be Proved an Error?
On Thursday (Dec. 9), Oklahoma executed Bigler “Buddy” Stouffer, a 79-year-old deeply committed Christian who has maintained his innocence since being convicted of murder in 1985. It was the last execution sche...
Seeking Wholeness: Moving Beyond the Abortion Debate
Maybe when we stop arguing over legality, we’ll be able to see the women and the children who are caught between the battle lines.
Changing the Way I Approach Abortion
I'm ready to leave behind the language and baggage of the pro-life movement to explore a politically unattached whole-life ethic.
On Evangelical Conspiracy Theories
The conspiracy theory maintains the fear that fuels white supremacy. It grants power to those who have craved it all their lives. It maintains power for those who had always had it. It protects money. It creates divisions. It discourages investigation. It denies that all people were created in the Image of God. It gives people permission to believe in ungodly means to a possible God-endorsed end. Even though Jesus himself reminded his followers that demonic forces do not promote God’s goodness.
We Go There: Abortion
I theorized maybe this is not so much about being pro-life. If this is the only thing that is guiding your vote, maybe there is something deeper, a kind of a scapegoat mechanism happening.
A Response to Pro-Life Constituents
That’s when I began to understand that you can’t outlaw abortion, you have to outlove it.
Dialoguing Across Difference: Abortion & Big Tent Theology
We must do better — and it starts with each and every one of us.