What does it look like when the culture of death runs head-on into a mother’s instinct. Sometimes mommy’s gut wins, but sometimes not. The latter was the case with Sarah Carpenter, a married woman with two children who became pregnant with a third child. After finding out that the child had a disability, she and her husband Andrew made the decision to abort the child in order to spare him from having a bad life.

Today, President Obama became the first President ever to mention the word “gay” in an inaugural speech (watch below). Given everything that has happened over the last year, this is not surprising. Nevertheless, his remarks do deserve some scrutiny because their implications are morally devastating for the definition of marriage. In a section of the speech devoted to equal rights for all, he said this:

Rev. Luis Leon delivered the inaugural benediction this afternoon. Leon was selected to deliver the prayer after Louie Giglio was forced out of the program by the White House. The White House dropped Giglio from the program after Giglio’s Christian views on homosexuality surfaced on the internet in an old sermon. Leon serves at a church that rejects the Bible’s prohibition on homosexuality, and that is likely why he was selected to replace Giglio.

All of us are sinners, and we all are prone to cover our works in darkness so that our deeds will not be exposed (John 3:19-20). But we can’t hide our own faults from ourselves, so we have a tendency to rebrand our faults so that they are not faults after all. In other words, our hearts tend to suppress what they know to be true so as to salve our guilty consciences (Romans 1:18). But sometimes, there’s no getting away from the guilt. Even after we do our best to deny the evil of evil, it nevertheless haunts us at a visceral level.

Russell Moore and Robby George respond to Matt Anderson’s essay arguing that evangelicals should “shrug off” the ouster of Louie Giglio from the president’s inaugural ceremony. They write:

During the recent Passion conference in Atlanta, John Piper talked with with John Ensor and Scott Klusendorf about the ways things have gotten worse and better since Roe v. Wade. The first thing Dr. Piper points to on the negative side of the ledger is this: “We have the most radically extreme pro-choice President we’ve ever had who says things that simply are appalling…” You’ll have to listen to the rest to get the context. Also, this is part 1 of 4 segments from this interview. The other 3 segments will be appearing over the next several days here.

Lawrence O’Donnell is predictably liberal. That may actually be an understatement. He’s not only a liberal, he’s stridently anti-conservative. His liberalism primarily consists in his political views, but a recent monologue reveals that he is liberal theologically as well.

The news of Wendell Berry’s recent endorsement of gay marriage is not altogether surprising, but it is certainly a case-study in self-contradiction. Here he is in his own words: My argument…was the sexual practices of consenting adults ought not to be subjected to the government’s approval or disapproval, and that domestic partnerships in which people who live together and devote their lives to one another ought to receive the spousal rights, protections and privileges the government allows to heterosexual couples. In one line, Berry says that the sexual practices shouldn’t be subject to the government’s approval or disapproval, and yet in the very next sentence he supports extending the government’s…