TS&TT: The Secret Treachery of the "Pro-Life" Establishment

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today on the Sword & The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden welcome Ben Zeisloft, Communications Director at The Foundation to Abolish Abortion, and talk about his new book: Forsakers of the Fatherless. They discuss the need for this book, how the pro-life movement has shut down righteous abolition laws, the rising abortion rates since the overturning of Roe and more. SHOW NOTES: Ready to plan your next event? Contact Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center: https://LYBCC.com Register for the 2026 National Founders Conference - Make Disciples: https://founders.org/conference/ Get 10% off Miller's Grove Soap with code "FOUNDERS": https://TheMillersGrove.com Preorder "The Baptist Catechism": https://press.founders.org/shop/the-baptist-catechism/ Register for "Introduction to the Law and the Gospel": https://study.founders.org/library/introduction-to-the-law-and-the-gospel-237516/ Pre-Order "The Law for the Lawless": https://press.founders.org/shop/the-law-for-the-lawless/ Founders Ministries: https://founders.org Support the Work of Founders: https://founders.org/give https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/https://twitter.com/FoundersMinhttps://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/ All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for this conversation today on the Sword and the Trial.
0:03.0	Today, Pastor Tom and I talk to Ben Zysloft. He's the author of a new book from Founders Press called Forsakers of the Fatherless. Subtitle is The Secret Treachery of the Pro Life Establishment. It's a great conversation, great book, highly recommend it. You can find it on the Founders Press website. I hope it's a helpful conversation to you. Take a listen. Welcome to The Sword and the Trial. The Sword and the Trial is a podcast of Founders Ministries and Founders Exists for the Recovery of the Gospel and the Reformation of local churches. I'm Graham Gundin. I'm Tom Askel. Today's episode is brought to you by the Miller's Grove Soap Company and Lake Yale Baptist
0:37.6	Conference Center. Right now, there's a lot of incredible, exciting things that are happening
0:42.9	around founders' ministries, founders' seminary, et cetera. Tom, why don't you take us through some
0:47.5	those things? Yeah, Founder Seminary has just opened its doors and the Institute of Public Theology
0:52.0	has continued on with the new semester.
0:54.8	Lots of things happening here.
0:56.8	We're delighted with the launch of Founder Seminary.
1:00.3	We have coming up in just a few weeks our official convocation for this semester,
1:06.0	and you can go to Foundersenary.org, get more information on that.
1:09.2	But we just ask people to pray for us.
1:10.8	Thank you for all those who have prayed, who have given to support this new endeavor.
1:15.9	And we've got some other initiatives on the starting line.
1:19.9	You're ready to go as soon as the Lord provides the funds and resources available necessary,
1:26.7	making them available to us. So please pray for us,
1:29.2	and we thank you for all of those who are partnering with us and all of those who have
1:33.0	encouraged us on to this journey. It's exciting, and we look forward to more over these next
1:39.6	several months. Yeah, the Lord is certainly doing a lot here at Founders and Founders Seminary.
1:44.0	But today,
1:44.9	what we mostly want to talk about is an excellent new book that has come out by our friend
1:49.8	Ben Zysloft, and Ben has joined us today on the podcast. It is called Forsakers of the Fatherless,
1:55.5	the secret treachery of the pro-life establishment. Ben is the communications director for the Foundation to abolish abortion.
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