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PPL Board Member Rev. Lowell Avery, shares lessons God is teaching him in the school of prayer.
"Compelled by the Gospel, PPL equips Presbyterians to champion human life at every stage."
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- Jun 3
- 4 min
A Snippet of Song in the Night
God is revealing the secret...to enduring through this time of caretaking.
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- May 9
- 3 min
Death, the Last Enemy
It's Easter season, and Christians are supposed to be focused on the resurrection, but for going on 3 years we've been stuck on Good Friday
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- Mar 29
- 4 min
Preserving the Species
PPL Board Member, Rev. Jonathan B. Leach, reminds us that the antidote for our culturally-induced fears is a healthy, optimistic hope...
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- Jan 3
- 2 min
Jeremiad: Nobody Likes a Prophet
God has a message for the church in the midst of our current cultural crisis
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- Dec 31, 2021
- 3 min
Pregnant With Promise: A call to prayer
The stories of pregnancies in Scripture can teach us how God accompanies us through our uncertain futures and difficult realities.
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- Aug 31, 2021
- 2 min
SUICIDE, DESPAIR and COVID
Much of our pandemic behavior has been driven by fear, and much of our pandemic behavior has been detrimental to our mental health.
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- Apr 29, 2021
- 5 min
The Abortion Pill
By PPL Board Member, Patricia Lee June, M.D “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you,...
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- Apr 17, 2021
- 3 min
DIVINE CANCELLATION
Heaven is reserved for those who identify as and imitate the humility of children.
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- Mar 31, 2021
- 2 min
REMEMBER THE BIG PICTURE
By PPL Board Member, Rev. Lowell Avery We champion human life in obedience to “God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to...
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- Mar 7, 2021
- 4 min
ETHICAL CHOICES AT THE END OF LIFE
In making end of life choices, we ought not be motivated by fear. It has no place in our thoughts.
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- Jan 1, 2021
- 2 min
Holding the Center
It feels like false optimism to imagine that crossing an imaginary line into 2021 will bring the fresh start associated with most new years.
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- Nov 21, 2020
- 3 min
The Gift of Life
To believe that we can change God's plan by anything we do is dangerously prideful.
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- Oct 31, 2020
- 3 min
How Long, O Lord?
By Deborah Hollifield, Executive Director In 1989, the last year of Ronald Reagan’s Presidency, I was a new candidate running for a...
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- Oct 31, 2020
- 3 min
"If we don't have life, other issues pale!"
We have come a long way in America toward defeating racism in our country, but we have more work to do in fighting racial injustice.
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- Sep 5, 2020
- 3 min
Identity Politics
More and more we are bombarded with “identity politics,” the system that labels people and forces them into artificial homogenous groups.
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- Jul 6, 2020
- 9 min
OUR MASS DELUSION: NO LIVES MATTER
The commodification of unborn human life has embedded a societal delusion where no lives matter.
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- Apr 27, 2020
- 2 min
Jesus Doesn't Triage
“All lives matter” has become a trite slogan, but in God’s economy, it is clearly true.
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- Apr 1, 2020
- 4 min
How Valuable is a Death?
Amid the worldwide waiting, watching, fearing, and mourning over the destruction created by the COVID-19 virus, questions of life and death
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- Mar 2, 2020
- 5 min
What is a person?
A PPL blog by Patricia Lee June, M.D, PPL Board member
“Personhood” is the status of being a person, but what is a “person”?
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