Category Archives: Pro-Life

Bethesda Healing

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Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep [Gate] a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. For [from time to time] an Angel of the Lord would come down into the pool; and the water was stirred up, so the first one to get in [after the stirring of the water] was healed of whatever disease afflicted him. (John 5:2-4)

healingBethesda Healing Ministry on Dover Road in Columbus is a Catholic Christian ministry that for 22 years has served men and women suffering the effects of abortion in the spirit of the biblical Bethesda. The Stewardship Foundation has supported the ministry financially for several years, and is blessed for having done so. In April, we attended their Annual Event Dinner where the ministry hoped to raise $150,000 to fund their vision to extend “the arms of outreach” in Ohio. Up to now, the ministry has been run strictly by volunteers at no pay but now foundress Judy Schlueter feels they need to fill new leadership and staffing positions and broaden their reach so that more suffering people can experience healing.

We encourage you to visit their new website. You will be moved and inspired with their work and the real life stories told by women who chose abortion and have now experienced the healing power of God’s love.

Forward this blog to anyone you know who may need God’s healing love from depression, self-hatred, or trauma due to a choice made in secret or at a time of great confusion.

Forward this blog as well to anyone you know who may may be seeking investment advice from professionals who are principled and committed to Christian stewardship.

Voting Pro-Life Is Not an Opinion

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Vote Pro-Life badgeThe Stewardship Foundation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles of morals and ethics as laid out by the call of Christian conscience in 2009. Conscience is not the same as opinions or feelings. So on the matter of voting for a pro-abortion candidate, we must follow our conscience, regardless of how we “feel” about a particular candidate.

The taking of a God-given life is against natural law. It’s a matter of conscience, not opinion. It’s known by reason, not because it’s written down. Cain sinned when he murdered Abel long before Moses received the Ten Commandments. And Cain knew it was wrong to murder.

If a political candidate supports abortion, or any other moral evil, voting for that person makes us an accomplice in the moral evil at issue. So at this writing, where do the remaining committed candidates stand on abortion?

  • Hillary Clinton (D) Consistently fights against pro-life and believes women have the right to abortion for any reason.
  • Ted Cruz (R) Solid pro-life voting record since joining the Senate in 2013.
  • John Kasich (R) Strong pro-life voting record during 18 years in Congress, and has signed 16 pro-life laws as governor of Ohio.
  • Marco Rubio (R) Solid pro-life voting record during 5 years in the Senate.
  • Bernie Sanders (D) Solid pro-abortion voting record (over 100 times) in his career.
  • Donald Trump (R) Admits to being pro-choice in the past, but in 2012 declared himself pro-life after what he terms “a personal experience” with friends. He pledges to fight against the abortion-funding loopholes in ObamaCare.

So there it is. For those of strong moral conviction, we have but one choice this presidential election year: we must vote our conscience and cast our vote on the side of life.

Can Moral Reasoning Win the Day Against Legalized Abortion?

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March for Life 2016By now you’ve no doubt read or watched the news report about a busload of more than 100 teenagers from Minnesota stranded on the Pennsylvania turnpike after attending the 2016 March for Life. On Saturday morning, they built an altar out of snow and organized a mass for 200 to 300 people from nearby buses. The mood of the teenagers was great. But the reality on the numbers of abortions still taking place in the U.S. can turn a good mood cloudy.

In a recent article from The Catholic Thing, Hadley Arkes, political scientist and professor of Jurisprudence at Amherst College, reflects on the 2016 March for Life and asks us to reconsider our assumptions about how to overturn Roe v. Wade by stirring again the capacity for moral reasoning found in the text of the Constitution. Read the article here.