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Jimmy Carter, Awkward Abortion Moderate

John Murdock

Jimmy Carter, the recently departed former president, leaves a legacy that is difficult to categorize into today’s dominant political categories of conservative, liberal, and populist because he had a finger...

Briefly Noted

Briefly Noted

John Murdock

Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters by carmen joy imesintervarsity academic, 248 pages, $22.99 Don’t set your expectations by this book’s academic imprint. Being God’s Image is, as...

A Pro-Life Woman for President

John Murdock

Terrisa Bukovinac will not be elected president in 2024. If you did not know that she was running, you can be forgiven. But run she did, receiving over 14,000...

With Abortions and Rainbows for All

John Murdock

Should I have been surprised that ReproductiveRights.gov exists? Joe Biden has shifted from touting his long record of supporting the Hyde Amendment and opposing late-term abortions to making unfettered...

IVF Needs More Regulation

John Murdock

How small is too small to care? That is the fundamental question now facing the citizenry in a post-Roe world. Donald Trump is reportedly among those who see fifteen-week-olds...

Biden’s Awkward Abortion Legacy

John Murdock

Budget negotiations are set to heat up after Congress’s August recess. Some Republicans are planning to use the power of the purse to combat “woke” policies with new budget...

Keeping the “C” in the YMCA

John Murdock

The Young Men’s Christian Association was birthed in the factories of nineteenth-century London. It then spread around the globe to become one of history’s most successful parachurch movements. Today,...

Sing Your Abortion

John Murdock

Jean Rohe really wants you to know that she had an abortion. In the dehumanizing song “Animal,” for which the folk singer earned a 2022 songwriting award at the...

Revolutionary Christian Cinema

John Murdock

Jesus Revolution, which releases in theaters today, tells the story of the southern California “Jesus Movement.” The movement left in its tie-dyed wake several quasi-denominations (including Calvary Chapel and...

Praying Outside the Abortion Clinic

John Murdock

In secret places they murder the innocent.” I read those words from Psalm 10 outside a Planned Parenthood clinic as I stare at the windows, tinted and shadowed, wondering...

Saving God’s Creation in the Philippines

John Murdock

The documentary Delikado, Filipino for “risky” or “dangerous,” opens in prayer: “Take care of us, Lord. Please provide us protection, your Holy Spirit. I pray, Lord, our enemy’s plans...

Joe v. Joe on Roe

John Murdock

President Joe Biden delivered remarks at the White House shortly after the Dobbs decision reversing Roe v. Wade was announced. The leaked Supreme Court draft from weeks earlier gave the president plenty of...

Uvalde, Abortion, and the Limits of Compassion

John Murdock

What about a 48-hour waiting period or, for someone 18 years old, parental consent? They’re willing to put those restrictions on young women who are seeking reproductive care. Why...

Texas Abortion Showdown

John Murdock

In the streets of Laredo, Texas, Congressman Henry Cuellar is fighting for his political life. Today, he faces a runoff election in the Democratic primary. Cuellar is the last...

Saturday Night Live Tackles Abortion

John Murdock

Saturday Night Live has long felt dated. The skits telegraph and then often explain their jokes. Moments of true comedic originality are rare. To use Ross Douthat’s apt term,...