Click here to listen Yesterday before I did the Bible Answer Man Broadcast, the associate editor of the Christian Research Journal, Wayne Mayhall, alerted me by email to the passing of Richard John Neuhaus. Wayne wrote in his email, “What a great man and...
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Barack Obama on When Life Begins and Partial Birth Abortion
I'd like to talk about something that happened on CNN, the Democratic Candidates Compassion Forum, where Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek, asked Senator Obama and Senator Clinton questions. These questions are issues that we deal with frequently on the Bible Answer Man...
Annihilating Abortion Arguments
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, Winter (1997). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. "They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire...and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of the...
Dead Silence: Must The Bible Say Abortion Is Wrong Before We Can Know It’s Wrong?
This review first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, volume 27, number 01 (2004). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information about the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, click here. SYNOPSIS...
The Vanishing Pro-Life Apologist: Putting The “Life” Back Into The Abortion Debate
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 22, number 1 (1999). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. SYNOPSIS The past few years have witnessed a stunning development in the pro-life movement. Many...
The Shifting Focus in the Abortion Debate: Does The Humanity of the Unborn Matter Anymore?
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 17, number 3 (Winter 1995). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here. Pro-lifers in the United States have always assumed that if they could demonstrate beyond...
What Is Abortion?
The following is an excerpt from article DA375 by Hank Hanegraaff. The full article can be found by following the link below the excerpt. Those who continue to fight legislation restricting abortion are in reality not "pro-choice." Rather, they are...
The Abortion Holocaust
The following is an excerpt from article DA375 by Hank Hanegraaff. The full article can be found by following the link below the excerpt. For hundreds of years the Lord had warned the Israelites through His prophets. Now it was too late! Darkness had descended upon...
An Eye for an Eye? Exodus and Abortion
This article first appeared in the Viewpoint column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 1 (2004). For further information about the Christian Research Journal click here. Scott Klusendorf has presented several excellent pro-life arguments in...
Exodus 21:22-25: Biblical Support for Abortion?
The following is an excerpt from an article found in theChristian Research Journal, Volume 27, Number 1, by Scott Klusendorf. To view the full article, follow the link below the excerpt. Exodus 21:22–25 is a favorite of abortion advocates, though it does little...
Partial Birth Abortion: Where Does America Stand?
The following is an excerpt of Scott Klusendorf's article "The Vanishing Pro-Life Apologist." This piece was excerpted particularly for its stance on Partial Birth Abortion. We can win if we force abortion advocates to defend killing babies. The national debate over...
Anti-Abortion Arguments: What Are Some Anti-Abortion Arguments?
Anti-Abortion Arguments- THE GRADUALIST THESIS Those who defend the gradualist thesis, such as Daniel Callahan and Robert Wennberg,29 argue that the unborn entity increases in value as it develops physically. Unlike the theories critiqued above, in this view there is...
Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Part Four): When Does a Human Become a Person
This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, Summer (1991). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, click here. In this final...
Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Part Three): Is the Unborn Human Less Than Human?
This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, Spring (1991). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, click here. Realizing that...
Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights? (Part Two): Arguments from Pity, Tolerance, and Ad Hominem
This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, Winter (1991). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information or to subscribe to the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, click here. In the first...
The Abortion Debate: Arguments from Tolerance
Many people in the abortion rights movement argue that their position is more tolerant than the pro-life position. After all, they reason, the abortion rights movement is not forcing pro-life women to have abortions, but the pro-life movement is trying to deny all...
Unwanted Children: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights
It is argued by many people in the pro-choice movement that legal abortion helps eliminate unwanted children. They believe that unwanted children are indirectly responsible for a great number of family problems, such as child abuse. Hence, if a family can have the...
Abortion and Rape: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights
In the first installment of this four-part series we examined a number of arguments for abortion rights which can be classified as appeals to pity. In this article I will present and critique more appeals to pity, along with two additional kinds of argument: appeals...
Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights (Part 1): The Appeal to Pity
This article first appeared in the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, Fall (1990). The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. For further information about the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL, click here. Abortion has become the most...
The Bible and Abortion: A Biblical View of Abortion
THE BIBLE AND ABORTION- Introduction Abortion (as a medical procedure) is never mentioned in the Bible. So that must mean that the Bible has nothing relevant to say on the subject, Right? THE BIBLE AND ABORTION- What Does the Bible Say? Abortion is one of the most...
Q&A: False Gospels, Future End-Time Events, and Debating With Muslims
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How the Church Can Address the Crisis of Identity and Belief Among Gen Z Women
This article was published exclusively online in the Christian Research Journal, volume 48, number 02 (2025). When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our...
Mother’s Day 2025 Q&A
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‘Am I Racist?’ Reveals DEI’s Counterfeit Redemption
This article was published exclusively online in the Christian Research Journal, volume 48, number 01 (2025). When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our...
The Seminal Issue of Apologetics, and Q&A
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Three Dogmas of Wokeism: The Path to Authoritarianism
This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 46, number 1/2 (2023). For further information or to support the Christian Research Journal please click here. When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources...
Q&A: The Genesis Creation Account, Protesting, and Santa Claus
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Q&A: Murder, Wheel Within a Wheel, and Jesus’ Death
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Q&A: Ghosts, Politics, and Memorizing Scripture
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A String of Losses for the Pro-Life Movement and Our Message of Hope
This article was published exclusively online in the Christian Research Journal, Volume 47, number 03 (2024). When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our...
Blessings and Liberty: The Politics and Religion of David French
Theological Trends Column This article was published exclusively online in the Christian Research Journal, Volume 47, number 03 (2024). This is also a Viewpoint article. Viewpoint articles address relevant contemporary issues in discernment and apologetics...
Episode 402: Blessings and Liberty: The Politics and Religion of David French
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How Truth Works
Cultural Critique Column Note: This is part of our ongoing Philosophers Series. This article was published exclusively online in the Christian Research Journal, Volume 47, number 03 (2024). This is an online article from the Christian Research Journal....
How do we annihilate A-B-O-R-T-I-O-N arguments?
By Hank Hanegraaff Abortion is the painful killing of an innocent human being. Painful for the child because the methods employed involve burning, smothering, dismembering, and crushing. Killing in that, from the beginning, that which is terminated fulfills the...
How serious are the consequences of believing in evolution?
By Hank Hanegraaff More consequences for society hinge on the cosmogenic myth of evolution than on any other. Among them are the sovereignty of self, the sexual revolution, and survival of the fittest. First, the supposed death of God in the nineteenth century ushered...
Mother’s Day Q&A
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Age of Nihilism: The Great War to the Culture Wars of Today
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Episode 381 Christianity is Narrow. It Should Not Impose Its Views On Everyone
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Christianity is Better: What Place for the Christian in a Post-Christian Political World?
Back to Basics Apologetics This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 47, number 1 (2024). When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These...
Remembering A Horrendous Evil
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Q&A: Joseph Prince, the Third Heaven, and Being a Witness
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Online Exclusives: Volume 47, Number 01 (2024)
The following articles were published exclusively online in the Christian Research Journal, Volume 47, number 01 (2024). CONTENTS: Feature Articles A Christian Response to Scrolling and Doomscrolling by Lisa Cooper The Satanic Temple Abortion Clinic: A Critical Review...
Grief, Guilt, and Godzilla: A Review of ‘Godzilla Minus One’
Cultural Apologetics Column This article was published exclusively online in the Christian Research Journal, Volume 46, number 04 (2023). When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people...
The Roots of Planned Parenthood
This article was published exclusively online in the Christian Research Journal, Volume 46, number 04 (2023). When you support the Journal, you join the team and help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our...
Best of BAM: The End of Woman with Carrie Gress
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The End of Woman with Carrie Gress – Part 3
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The End of Woman with Carrie Gress – Part 1
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Q&A: The Mark of the Beast, Cessationism, and Organ Donation
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