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Musicetc.org The lead of this story in the New York Times almost sounds like one of those bad jokes of a priest, a minister, and a rabbi walking into a bar.

But in this case, it's a Baptist minister and Presbyterian pastor and a Jewish canter

walking into an abortion clinic under the headline, A Blessing for an Abortion Clinic.

Did the other side get represented in this story?

And what is the story trying to say about abortion. Greetings and welcome to issues

etc. back live on this Thursday afternoon, the 2nd of January. I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in.

Terry Mattingly joins us to talk about this New York Times story. We'll spend some time with Dr. Reed

Lessing, part one of a conversation with him on the Old Testament book

of Lamentations. Then Dr. Craig Evans will be alongside to review the top biblical archaeology discoveries

of 2024. Terry Mattingley, a senior fellow on communications and culture at St. Constantine

College in Houston, Texas. He writes Rational Sheep, a substack newsletter

on faith, family, and mass media. He's author of the National On Religion column for the Andrews

MacMille Universal Syndicate, and for two decades, he led the getreligion.org website. Terry, welcome back.

Glad to be here. Let's start with the big question that looms over a story like this that involves three clergymen

blessing an abortion clinic. What is this story's view of religious truth? Well, first of all,

the religious clergy people, they're all female, or it actually kind of

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