Jim Wallis

Gutless wonders racing off a sinking ship

Marriage |  The ship of marriage is sinking fast. Last week saw another noted public figure evacuating in a lifeboat from the S.S. Traditional Wedlock : Jim Wallis of…

Sherry West

The Gosnell trial’s bewildered witness

Abortion |  PHILADELPHIA—If abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s murder trial were an old Perry Mason episode, yesterday would have been the day when the famous defender would…

A police car parked outside of Kermit Gosnell's abortion mill.

Gosnell’s ‘fireman in hell’

Abortion |  PHILADELPHIA—Last Thursday, during abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s murder trial, a man in an olive green prison jumpsuit occupied the witness stand all day.

Kermit Gosnell's defense attorney Jack McMahon.

The Gosnell courtroom’s cast of characters

Abortion |  PHILADELPHIA—I am not saying a trial is a play, but there are aspects of it that are very much like a stage drama. The first thing one notices upon entering…

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The monstrous results of human reasoning in the Gosnell trial

Abortion |  PHILADELPHIA—In American jurisprudence a man is innocent until proven guilty. But in the Kermit Gosnell murder trial that began last week, neither side…

Keeping photos from the bad old days

Faith & Inspiration |  As a child I used to like to take out the box of photos at my grandmother’s house and look through the same ones I had examined scores of times—some of…

An encouraging cloudy forecast

Faith & Inspiration |  There is a 6-year-old boy I don’t get to see often, but when I do I find him every inch a boy—well versed on Spider-Man and all his nemeses, able to leap…

Growing from a shrub to a tree

Faith & Inspiration |  Here is part of a passage from Jeremiah I was reading recently while waiting at a toll booth station for a friend to arrive: “Cursed is the man who trusts…

Praying the same words … praying the same words

Faith & Inspiration |  “And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words” (Mark 14:39). At this point, Jesus is entering the worst of his suffering now, intense enough…

Making sure Malchus had an ear to hear

Faith & Inspiration |  “And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear . Then…

Forgiveness ahead of time

Faith & Inspiration |  “And Jesus said to them, ‘You will all fall away, for it is written, “I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.” But after I am…

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