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Barber/ERLC Swing and Miss (Again) at Abolitionism
Few things in the evangelical landscape of the west have caused a more polarizing response than that of the abortion crisis. More specifically, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, has been torn over the issue for the better part of its existence. Whether through weekly sermon applications, daily evangelism, or annual resolutions,…
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Incrementalism Versus Immediatism in a Nutshell
The Pro-Life Establishment often likes to say about abolitionists that “we all want the same thing.” This is actually untrue. Abolitionists want preborn children treated as our equals under the law; we want abortion treated as murder. The Pro-Life Establishment wants abortion classified as a lesser crime, and for preborn children to be denied the…
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Incremental Laws (of All Sorts) Undermine Repentance
The position of the Abolitionist Movement regarding which bills we support has long been “no bill but abolition.” Any other legislation is either intrinsically unjust or a distraction from the point. However, among some of those in and around the Abolitionist Movement, a debate has stirred regarding “righteous increments:” incremental bills that do not abolish…
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Timothy Cole: My Conversion From Pro-Life Speaker to Abolitionist
My mind was blown and my heart broken during junior high history class. I had always naively thought grave societal evil was mostly confined to ancient times, and that America had always been on the right side of history. Learning of our nation’s history of slavery, mistreatment of Native Americans, the Civil War, the civil…
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Robert L. Dabney: Wrong on Slavery, Right on Abolitionism
Theologian and Confederate apologist Robert L. Dabney was among the most influential southern Presbyterians of the Civil War era. Dabney authored a number of books held in high regard by some today including The Five Points of Calvinism, A Defence of Virginia, and his Systematic Theology. There is much to appreciate about Dabney, who was…
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Responding to (and Praying For) Randy Alcorn
Christian author Randy Alcorn published two articles last week addressing abolitionism; the first of which being a reprint of Scott Klusnedorf’s recent Gospel Coalition article with a short preface from Alcorn, and the second a more extended exposition of Alcorn’s own perspective. There is much to take issue with ideologically which we will discuss in…
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C.R. Cali: How to Exhort Legislators Who Support Abolition and Pro-Life Bills
The Abolitionist Movement is blessed with many bold legislators who work for the immediate abolition of abortion without compromise like Warren Hamilton, John Jacob, Heather Scott, and others. But there are also many who support and even file abolition bills who simultaneously support incremental bills which are immoral and delay abolition by helping the very…
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Arkansas Baptists Pass Resolution on Abolishing Abortion at State Convention
When the Southern Baptist Convention passed the Resolution on Abolishing Abortion at their annual meeting in June, a powerful string of events was set in motion as longtime abolitionists became emboldened to push even harder for abolitionism within the convention and hundreds of pastors and SBC messengers who were previously unaware of the Abolitionist Movement…
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Responding to Klusendorf and Newman: Trading a Prophetic Voice for Cowardly Compromise
On Wednesday, Scott Klusendorf and Marc Newman published an article for Townhall defending pro-life incrementalism in response to the recently passed Southern Baptist Resolution on Abolishing Abortion. The resolution was a thoroughly biblical, decidedly abolitionist document that called for the “immediate abolition of abortion without exception or compromise.” Sounds great, right? Not to Klusendorf and…
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Contra Klusendorf and Desiring God: Pro-Life Compromise Dooms Preborn Children
By popular demand, it’s time for a response to Scott Klusendorf’s article at Desiring God entitled “Abortion Dies by a Thousand Votes,” in which he defends political incrementalism and attempts to paint abolitionists as the enemies of progress. He begins with a fictional anecdote, before making three arguments against immediatism. We will deal with the…
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