Boycotting a pro-life state and gay ardvarks. How to Love Our Lost Culture. This is Dr. Jim

Denison's The Daily Article podcast for Monday, May 13, 2019. After George's governor signed

legislation banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, more than 100 actors pledged

to boycott productions

in the state. Five film production companies announced they would no longer work in the state

as well. In other news, the Times Literary Supplement recently profiled new fiction

for children and young adults on an LGBTQ theme. One tells the story of a boy who decides

he is a mermaid. Another tells the

gay love story of two ardvarks. Another is much more explicit than I'm willing to describe.

Meanwhile, the Atlantic is promoting a documentary on its platform that claims to describe both

sides of the heartbeat bills. But note the now familiar options, pro-choice and anti-abortion.

For years, the left side of the culture wars has been astute in describing the other

side as anti, knowing the psychological advantage of such branding.

We're anti-abortion rather than pro-life, anti-LGBQ rather than pro-biblical sexuality,

anti-marriage equality rather than pro-traditional marriage,

and so on. Anytime I can describe you as what you're not, more than what you are, I gain a

significant rhetorical and persuasive advantage. How should we respond to a culture that seems so

antagonistic to biblical values? One of the most important lessons I have learned in recent years is this.

God wants us to love the world without needing the world to love us in return.

Jesus clearly taught us to love even our enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

We are to offer the world the kind of love that bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things, as 1 Corinthians 137 says.

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