Seth & Aubrie Drayer

Just a couple of weeks ago, Aubrie graduated with her degree in nursing. We are anxiously anticipating her test date for the Boards examination, after which she will be certified as a Registered Nurse. Commencement was indeed a joyous celebration. Never have I seen such diligence as was portrayed by my wife in her long hours in the books preparing for exams or drafting reports following clinical assignments. Indeed, graduation was a time of great rejoicing. As I consider photos of Aubrie accepting her diploma, I feel a great sense of pride for the woman she is—full of integrity and discipline. She is a woman I trust completely. Oddly, this pondering reminds me of a statement posted weeks ago on the OSU GAP Free Speech Board. The message scrawled on the board read, “The question is ultimately: do we believe women can make decisions about life and death and the nature of being? I say yes!” This idea has become a usual suspect at the GAP display, other times taking the f...

WARNING: The video below contains profanities (including the "F" word). The disgruntled student in this video is quite clearly angered by the presence of the Genocide Awareness Project on her campus. It would be easy to dismiss her frustrations by the incessant ad hominem attacks or her lack of response to the pro-life arguments she references (such as her passing reference to the "size" argument followed up with the counter-argument that "it's all [insert obscenity]"). However, let's extend to her the benefit of the doubt and assume that the lack of clear argumentation in this video is simply a visceral response to the admittedly disturbing nature of the GAP display. Actually, I'm going to go one step further and say that her response is entirely appropriate...IF. This outrage at the comparison of aborted fetuses to the the emaciated bodies of Jews, to the lives lost in Darfur or Rwanda is utterly appropriate and needs no carefully crafted e...

Today, the springtime clouds chose to wring out their heavy charges high above the Summit City, creating an atmosphere of gloom---the perfect setting for reflecting upon injustice which continues to stain our land. And so, this afternoon, I found myself returning to where it all began---for me. Leaving the Allen County Public Library, I decided to stroll down Webster Street to the site of the old Fort Wayne abortion clinic. Standing before the building of red brick, it was hard not to think of the blood lost from the children whose lives were ended on this simple street corner in our civilized country. Years ago, as a young high schooler, I was brought to this street to pray for the women, to be a visual witness, which I continue to do though the killing has moved to a new location in our city. Although my pro-life journey in many ways began on Webster Street, I was a latecomer to this debate to define humanity, this struggle to determine the value of mankind. Before I ever laid eyes...

In a section of his great apologetic work The God Who is There , Francis Schaeffer establishes the duty of the Christian in battling against injustice. He writes, The Christian is the real radical of our generation, for he stands against the monolithic, modern concept of truth as relative. But too often, instead of being the radical, standing against the shifting sands of relativism, he subsides into merely maintaining the status quo . If it is true that evil is evil, that God hates it to the point of the cross, and that there is a moral law fixed in what God is in Himself, then Christians should be the first into the field against what is wrong—including man’s inhumanity to man. Schaeffer wrote these words decades ago, calling upon fellow Christians to be radical, to speak truth to a generation buying into the lie of relativism. Years later, we are still in need of that radical generation. A new chapter is about to begin for the Drayers. Aubrie is set to graduate from ...