Hello friends, welcome to a special episode of Theology in the Rod. This episode is not part of the

normal routine of Theology in the Rod, which typically drops on Monday and Thursday, but in light

of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, I really wanted to have a conversation about how Christians

should think through that reversal on a political level, on an ethical level. How should we think

through things like abortion? And so I reached out to my friend, Dr. Scott Ray, because Scott is

a resident expert in this area. He's been doing work on medical ethics for decades. Scott has a

THM from Dallas Seminary, MA from USC, PhD from USC Postgraduate Study from the American Institute

for Holy Land Studies. His primary interests are in medical ethics and business ethics,

and he's the author of at least 10 books in ethics, including the ethics of commercial surrogate

motherhood, moral choices, brave new families, biblical ethics, and reproductive technologies,

and beyond integrity, a Judeo-Christian approach of business ethics, and many, many other books.

Scott's become a friend over the years, and he is just super, just wise and sharp and thoughtful.

He is a dean of faculty at Talbot School of Theology and Professor of Philosophy in Christian

Ethics at Biola University. Also, I do want to mention that Scott and Sean McDowell co-host

a really good podcast called Think Biblically. Think Biblically, and they do address the question

of abortion. They have an episode coming out, I believe, if it's not dropped yet, on the Roe v. Wade

decision, and if you go to Think Biblically, you will see lots of other really, really helpful

things that Scott and Sean address. So, please welcome back to the show, the one and only Dr.

Scott Ray.

All right, friends, I'm here with Dr. Scott Ray, whom I consider, for a while,

somebody who I admired from a distance as an evangelical ethicist, and over the last few years,

I think can call you a friend, which is really, it's always shocking when you reach my books for

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