With silly season kicking into overdrive this week, it’s probably a good time to prayerfully consider this nonpartisan, prophetic view of an issue that will be politicized and manipulated plenty as November draws closer.

“Symbolic positions of ‘pro-life’ and ‘pro-choice’ have replaced the actual saving of unborn lives. Abortion, as a volatile and highly emotional issue, is used in every election cycle to galvanize highly partisan political bases in each party, then quickly forgotten when the winners begin to govern.”-Jim Wallis in the book “The Great Awakening”