Welcome to the conversations that matter podcast. I'm your host John Harris here to talk about

the abortion debate in evangelical circles. The abortion debate in

evangelical circles, I think just about all my examples are pulling from Southern Baptist sources

because I've had my mind focused a lot on Southern Baptist stuff this week

given the convention was last week and a lot of the reaction and fallout from it is also this week.

In fact there's a lot of things I wanted to talk about that I don't know if I will be able to talk

about concerning the Southern Baptist because I really need to get to and want to get to

other things that are happening out there.

In fact, the PCA General Assembly is meeting right now.

We have the Christian Reform Church met last week, made some important decisions.

I know there's some things going on in

Lutheran denominations as well and I want to get to this stuff and I know Southern

Baptist it's kind of the big gorilla it's the big denomination but there's other denominations that are also very important.

And so I will get to those, but I think I need to do one or two more shows that are at least focused in part on

Southern Baptist. This one has a broader reach I think this is affecting more than

just the Southern Baptist but a lot of the examples I'm going to pull from are

going to be SBC. But the abortion

debate of course has changed over the last few years, especially in reaction to the

social justice movement and I think broadly speaking what I'd say is there's been a

watering down of pro life.

I remember when I was at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2000, it was my ethics class,

so I think this was 2015, if I'm not mistaken. It was around that time. I remember speaking to my ethics

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