Bernard of Clairvaux takes centre stage this week. He was a man who wrote beautiful truths while supporting terrible ideas. During his life the Honey-Tongued preacher gets himself embroiled in a Papal schism and starts another crusade almost single-handedly… it doesn’t go well.
Recently, N.T. Wright argued that in some circumstances, Christians may terminate a pregnancy. While he did not argue for unrestricted abortion, he believed that in certain situations, terminating a pregnancy could be “the best thing to do.” Wright explains: “There are many, many cases where it is about the mother’s health versus the health of the child or whatever. And particularly that, as you cited, in cases of rape or in cases of incest, there may be a very, very strong argument for saying this ought never to have happened. And with sorrow, because we do not want to do...
