What Does It Mean to be Pro-Life?

We are continuing our teaching series, "Christian Values in Changing Times" into the New Year. This week we're starting a four-week conversation on various biblical and practical issues related to pro-life questions.

Part 1




Key Themes:

• What does it mean to be "pro-life"?

• Infanticide in history
• "The Trash Heap of Ephesus" from Day of Discovery

• Interview with a former teenage mother about adoption

• Interviews about abortion recovery 
• Tam Hodge

Digging Deeper:

• Need help with a crisis pregnancy or abortion recovery? Search for a local "pregnancy resource center" and find out your options and get support.

• Book: And Now I Choose, by Tam Hodge

• Group Study: Healing a Father's Heart (abortion recovery for fathers)

• Group Study: Forgiven and Set Free (abortion recovery for mothers)

• Podcast: "Sex and Abortion in the Roman Empire: How Did Early Christians Respond?" with Alisa Childers

Part 2
 


Key Themes:

• What does the Bible say about abortion? (discussion of Exodus 21:22–24)

• Making the Case for the Unborn  
• Simply the argument
• Making the case from science

Digging Deeper:

• Book: Moral Choices, by Scott Rae 

  
Part 3




Key Themes:

• Making the Case for the Unborn  
• Making the case from philosophy
• SLED argument with Scott Klusendorf 

• Student perspectives on abortion and unborn

Digging Deeper:

• Book: Moral Choices, by Scott Rae

Part 4


Key Themes:

• Birth control: barrier methods vs. hormonal methods 

• Ethics of reproduction: IVF and "snowflake" adoption

Digging Deeper:

• Book: Moral Choices, by Scott Rae