A Missing Piece of the Pro-Life Argument, with Jacqueline Isaacs

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of adoption in the pro-life conversation and its theological implications.

Adoption belongs at the center of the pro-life conversation, not on its periphery. Yet Christians who can speak fluently about abortion policy often go quiet when the topic turns to adoption -- what it means theologically, what it demands practically, and why it is one of the most concrete pictures of the gospel available to the church. In this episode of the Libertarian Christian Podcast, host Doug Stewart and guest Jacqueline Isaacs make the case that the theology of adoption is not a sentimental add-on to Christian ethics but a load-bearing wall. Jacqueline serves as managing editor for the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics, president and chief content officer of Bellwether Communications, and adjunct professor of business at Cumberland University. She and Doug both have personal stakes in this conversation: Doug is himself an adoptee, and Jacqueline and her husband completed the adoption of their son about two and a half years ago. What makes this episode work is that the theology flows from lived experience, not from abstract argument. The episode moves through the personal stories, the economic and demographic realities of adoption in America, the church's specific…

People in this episode

Host: Doug Stewart

Guest: Jacqueline Isaacs

Topics covered

• pro-life argument
• adoption
• Christian ethics
• theology
• gospel
• personal stories
• support for adoptive families

Keywords

• pro-life
• adoption
• Christianity
• theology
• gospel
• Doug Stewart
• Jacqueline Isaacs
• ethics
• support for families

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics, Bellwether Communications

Places: Cumberland University

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