Interview with Widow of Turkish Martyr

Many of you know the tragic story of the three Christians tortured and murdered in Turkey. For the story, click here. Fox News has released a new video where you can watch an exclusive interview with Shemza Nicati, the widow of one of the murdered believers.

When Convenience and Morality Clash

Many of you have likely heard of the NY Times’ recent chilling article concerning unborn babies with Down Syndrome. It is a sad and low point for our society, yet it is not in any way unexpected. In fact, it is merely the logical outflowing of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Convenience was the name of the game then as it is now. To be sure, there are still those who argue that what is at stake is the life of the mother, but that smoke screen has faded from view as the winds of truth have uncovered what was hiding behind it. Ours is a culture fixated on death, and the Christian worldview is becoming more and more at odds as society decays around us.

I cannot believe how a mother can choose to kill a Downs baby, yet as a theology professor do understand it given the radical depravity of the human heart. We have had friends with such children, and have seen the challenges first hand. Yet we have also seen the unspeakable joys firsthand. For a Christian parent this is not an option. Yet, there are those who have and will justify it with a twisted logic that, in the end, helps them to sleep at night. Yet such a choice is to set oneself over against God, the Creator. He is the one who weaves together the strands of DNA, and He is the one who knits them together in the womb (Ps. 139), extra chromosome and all. To abort is to attack the creatorship of God. As such, to justify such a murderous choice is to announce the truth of Jeremiah 17:9, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately corrupt, who can understand it?“

See also Denny Burk’s blog.