Yes and amen. Thank you for writing about abortion. In 1985, I believed in abortion. I was a respiratory therapist at a large hospital, working in the surgical ICU. An 11-year-old, 9-months-pregnant girl came in. The man who molested her was in the room. But, also in that room were four devout Christian women praying with fervor.
That man learned the behavior from his father. It was generational. Those women showing love, compassion, and belief in the Father showed me that “all things God works for good of those who love him, who has been called according to his purpose,” Romans 8:28. Watching this situation changed my heart, and I saw that every life is holy.
The enemy wants us to see our lives as expendable. We are to be God's warriors and protect these precious souls. We are here for such a time as this. Esther 4:14
I stand with you on this I have to say this has been one of the most confusing things in my mind and in my heart. Between the abortion and all the missing children and adults that are taking place in this world and it is absolutely silenced. You cannot get anyone to even talk about it or to post about it. This is been the worst thing on my heart. It absolutely tears me apart that there's such silence and in my opinion this is just my opinion but I believe that we will all have to answer to God for the silence. And I do not believe in just posting beautiful devotionals I love them and I admit I need them I need to see those from people. And perhaps some people are called to do one thing and others are called to do another. I am one that's called to do the other because I do not just preach or teach on all the wonderful things of Christ. I believe you have to mix it. You have got to show God's mercy and you have got to show God's Wrath how else will people be called to look at their sins?
Another good post, Rocka. I suppose the best way is the balance between sharing the inspiration, the hope of the Gospel, and the awful truth of the sins that cover this world. I consider writing for the kingdom my sacred duty, and all aspects of God's truth do need to be present. Are there really Christians who only write devotionals with 1000 followers? My oh my. I mostly write fiction but I sure have an awful long way to go. (Smiley) Cheers and thanks for your honest and stirring post.
Rocka, the moral seriousness of the subject you raise deserves careful treatment, not rhetorical escalation that confuses zeal with fidelity and noise with witness.
The Church has never taught that silence on abortion is virtuous, nor that the deliberate killing of unborn children is morally neutral. On that point there is no ambiguity in orthodox Christianity, and certainly none in the Catholic moral tradition. Abortion is a grave moral evil. It is the unjust taking of innocent human life. That truth does not need to be rediscovered, dramatized, or mythologized to remain true.
Where this piece goes wrong is not in naming abortion as evil, but in presuming authority to judge the consciences, vocations, and faithfulness of other Christians based on the particular mode and frequency of their public speech. That presumption is neither biblical nor apostolic.
Scripture does not teach that every shepherd must address every evil publicly at all times, nor that silence on a specific issue is proof of complicity. The prophets were sent to particular people, at particular moments, for particular purposes. Nathan confronted David. Elijah confronted Ahab. John the Baptist confronted Herod. None of them confronted everything, everywhere, all at once. Even Christ Himself did not publicly denounce every injustice of His age. He did not lead an anti-slavery movement, though slavery was ubiquitous. He did not organize public campaigns against infanticide in Roman households, though it was widespread. He formed disciples, taught the truth, healed, preached repentance, and entrusted the Church with a mission that unfolds through time in different forms.
To suggest that any Christian creator who focuses on formation, prayer, gratitude, or interior conversion is therefore a “wolf” or morally irrelevant is a category mistake. The Church has always understood that the moral life is sustained by contemplation as well as confrontation. Prayer does not compete with justice; it grounds it. Formation does not distract from action; it makes action possible without collapsing into rage, despair, or self-righteousness.
Your argument also collapses prudence into cowardice. Prudence is not fear of backlash. It is the virtue that discerns how, when, and to whom the truth should be spoken so that it can actually be received and bear fruit. Not every platform is suited for the same task. Not every voice is called to the same form of witness. A physician serving mothers in crisis, a pastor quietly counseling a woman away from abortion, a writer forming consciences over years, and a public advocate confronting unjust laws may all be serving the same good through different means. To flatten all of that into a single metric of “did you say the sentence I wanted, the way I wanted it, publicly and loudly” is not prophetic clarity; it is moral reductionism.
There is also a serious spiritual danger in the way you frame yourself and your readers. The language of “bones humming,” hidden signals, and insider discernment subtly relocates authority from the Church’s moral teaching to your own affective certainty. The tradition warns precisely against that move. Zeal untethered from humility quickly becomes accusation, and accusation is the devil’s native language. The enemy of human life is not defeated by Christians turning on one another and questioning each other’s sincerity.
Abortion is not ignored because Christians write devotionals. It persists because of cultural, economic, relational, and spiritual breakdowns that no single post, sentence, or platform can solve. Ending it requires truth spoken clearly, yes, but also patience, charity, institutional rebuilding, support for women, fathers, and families, and a moral imagination capable of sustaining sacrifice over decades. That work is slow. It rarely feels dramatic. It often looks quiet.
Finally, Scripture’s command to “open your mouth for the mute” does not authorize us to close our ears to the complexity of vocation within the Body of Christ. Saint Paul is explicit: the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you.” Nor can one member declare another faithless because they are not performing the same function.
If the question is whether abortion should be named as evil, the answer is yes. If the question is whether every Christian who does not center their public output on that issue is therefore compromised, the answer is no. The Church does not need fewer voices of prayer, formation, and interior conversion. It needs those voices to remain faithful, so that when confrontation is required, it arises from truth rather than from accusation.
Moral courage is not proven by volume, nor by contempt for other forms of fidelity. It is proven by perseverance in truth, charity, and obedience to the call God has actually given, not the one we assign to others.
I call it like I see it.
Follow or don’t, whatever. Subscribe or don’t, whatever.
Quote scripture or don’t, whatever.
I’m not here to be loved or hated, whatever.
Sugar coat it, whatever.
Keep posting this abomination yo.
I call it for MURDER for only HIS will say’s it to be so.
Thank you for challenging me on this. I know I can do better with this. The truth is disruptive. That’s the point. 🙌
Your self-awareness is humility brother. Most Christians will read this and just ignore it.
Yes and amen. Thank you for writing about abortion. In 1985, I believed in abortion. I was a respiratory therapist at a large hospital, working in the surgical ICU. An 11-year-old, 9-months-pregnant girl came in. The man who molested her was in the room. But, also in that room were four devout Christian women praying with fervor.
That man learned the behavior from his father. It was generational. Those women showing love, compassion, and belief in the Father showed me that “all things God works for good of those who love him, who has been called according to his purpose,” Romans 8:28. Watching this situation changed my heart, and I saw that every life is holy.
The enemy wants us to see our lives as expendable. We are to be God's warriors and protect these precious souls. We are here for such a time as this. Esther 4:14
I stand with you on this I have to say this has been one of the most confusing things in my mind and in my heart. Between the abortion and all the missing children and adults that are taking place in this world and it is absolutely silenced. You cannot get anyone to even talk about it or to post about it. This is been the worst thing on my heart. It absolutely tears me apart that there's such silence and in my opinion this is just my opinion but I believe that we will all have to answer to God for the silence. And I do not believe in just posting beautiful devotionals I love them and I admit I need them I need to see those from people. And perhaps some people are called to do one thing and others are called to do another. I am one that's called to do the other because I do not just preach or teach on all the wonderful things of Christ. I believe you have to mix it. You have got to show God's mercy and you have got to show God's Wrath how else will people be called to look at their sins?
Another good post, Rocka. I suppose the best way is the balance between sharing the inspiration, the hope of the Gospel, and the awful truth of the sins that cover this world. I consider writing for the kingdom my sacred duty, and all aspects of God's truth do need to be present. Are there really Christians who only write devotionals with 1000 followers? My oh my. I mostly write fiction but I sure have an awful long way to go. (Smiley) Cheers and thanks for your honest and stirring post.
Rocka, the moral seriousness of the subject you raise deserves careful treatment, not rhetorical escalation that confuses zeal with fidelity and noise with witness.
The Church has never taught that silence on abortion is virtuous, nor that the deliberate killing of unborn children is morally neutral. On that point there is no ambiguity in orthodox Christianity, and certainly none in the Catholic moral tradition. Abortion is a grave moral evil. It is the unjust taking of innocent human life. That truth does not need to be rediscovered, dramatized, or mythologized to remain true.
Where this piece goes wrong is not in naming abortion as evil, but in presuming authority to judge the consciences, vocations, and faithfulness of other Christians based on the particular mode and frequency of their public speech. That presumption is neither biblical nor apostolic.
Scripture does not teach that every shepherd must address every evil publicly at all times, nor that silence on a specific issue is proof of complicity. The prophets were sent to particular people, at particular moments, for particular purposes. Nathan confronted David. Elijah confronted Ahab. John the Baptist confronted Herod. None of them confronted everything, everywhere, all at once. Even Christ Himself did not publicly denounce every injustice of His age. He did not lead an anti-slavery movement, though slavery was ubiquitous. He did not organize public campaigns against infanticide in Roman households, though it was widespread. He formed disciples, taught the truth, healed, preached repentance, and entrusted the Church with a mission that unfolds through time in different forms.
To suggest that any Christian creator who focuses on formation, prayer, gratitude, or interior conversion is therefore a “wolf” or morally irrelevant is a category mistake. The Church has always understood that the moral life is sustained by contemplation as well as confrontation. Prayer does not compete with justice; it grounds it. Formation does not distract from action; it makes action possible without collapsing into rage, despair, or self-righteousness.
Your argument also collapses prudence into cowardice. Prudence is not fear of backlash. It is the virtue that discerns how, when, and to whom the truth should be spoken so that it can actually be received and bear fruit. Not every platform is suited for the same task. Not every voice is called to the same form of witness. A physician serving mothers in crisis, a pastor quietly counseling a woman away from abortion, a writer forming consciences over years, and a public advocate confronting unjust laws may all be serving the same good through different means. To flatten all of that into a single metric of “did you say the sentence I wanted, the way I wanted it, publicly and loudly” is not prophetic clarity; it is moral reductionism.
There is also a serious spiritual danger in the way you frame yourself and your readers. The language of “bones humming,” hidden signals, and insider discernment subtly relocates authority from the Church’s moral teaching to your own affective certainty. The tradition warns precisely against that move. Zeal untethered from humility quickly becomes accusation, and accusation is the devil’s native language. The enemy of human life is not defeated by Christians turning on one another and questioning each other’s sincerity.
Abortion is not ignored because Christians write devotionals. It persists because of cultural, economic, relational, and spiritual breakdowns that no single post, sentence, or platform can solve. Ending it requires truth spoken clearly, yes, but also patience, charity, institutional rebuilding, support for women, fathers, and families, and a moral imagination capable of sustaining sacrifice over decades. That work is slow. It rarely feels dramatic. It often looks quiet.
Finally, Scripture’s command to “open your mouth for the mute” does not authorize us to close our ears to the complexity of vocation within the Body of Christ. Saint Paul is explicit: the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you.” Nor can one member declare another faithless because they are not performing the same function.
If the question is whether abortion should be named as evil, the answer is yes. If the question is whether every Christian who does not center their public output on that issue is therefore compromised, the answer is no. The Church does not need fewer voices of prayer, formation, and interior conversion. It needs those voices to remain faithful, so that when confrontation is required, it arises from truth rather than from accusation.
Moral courage is not proven by volume, nor by contempt for other forms of fidelity. It is proven by perseverance in truth, charity, and obedience to the call God has actually given, not the one we assign to others.
One of your best and most important posts. Many thanks.