The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

The road to hell is paved with reasonable religion with a non-anxious god. Most days, I'm pretty happy driving down that road. But I keep running into this Crazy Fellow along the way. At every stop light, he jumps up and down to get my attention. He pounds on my window asking me where the heck I think I'm going. He stands on the front bumper, shouting at me to turn around. When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car. He's such a drama queen.

The Christian life does not just evolve. It also requires specific decisions and public commitments to deepen our faith and obedience.

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

As is typical of this God [of Israel], he calls his people into freedom in the most unlikely place.

I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial.

As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.