Pastor Matt Trewhella of Mercy Seat Church in Milwaukee speaks on the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates at the Abolish Abortion Wisconsin Conference March 14, 2017.
We recently published a short article expressing some critiques of the Personhood strategy. Though we did not heavily promote that article it has created considerable discussion within the anti-abortion world. This article is a further elaboration upon those themes. We have written these critiques as men who have labored for years within the Personhood movement and who are grateful for the work that has been accomplished through it. Our hope is to simply explain why we no longer advocate for the Personhood strategy, and instead call for abolition through interposition.
On the evening of March 10, 1854, two wagons carrying two federal marshals and five other men made their way to a small cabin that was the home of Joshua Glover. Glover was a runaway slave who had been living in Racine, Wisconsin for about two years. He was known to be a skilled carpenter […]
Who was the runaway slave Joshua Glover and what does his story have to do with abortion in Wisconsin and the Gospel of Jesus Christ? “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” – Matt. 25:40 In Milwaukee, over one hundred tiny little […]
And the Rights of the States to Interpose Themselves Between their Citizens and Federal Law The pro-life movement estimates more than 3,700 children each day are either poisoned or butchered while still in the womb. That is, in now thirty-three years since Roe v. Wade, over 45 million children have been murdered and have received […]
A Proper Resistance to Tyranny and a Repudiation of Unlimited Obedience to Civil Government Many Americans seem to know that America’s founders gave us three boxes through which we can resist tyranny, namely – the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. But a lesser-known tool which the founders themselves employed is […]
Civil Disobedience and the Gospel of God There are three passages we want to focus on initially when tackling the issue of submission or subjection to government by Christians:Romans 13:1-7, Titus 3:1, and 1 Peter 2:13-17. From these passages, we can gather some key points that shed light on Christian submission to governing authorities or […]
