Dear Colleyville Family, I only rarely provide pastoral comment on Supreme Court decisions. The last time, in fact, was seven years ago, when I sent a pastoral letter to you after the Obergefell decision which legalized homosexual marriage. If you're interested, you can read that letter here. But yesterday's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson is momentous enough that it certainly calls for a pastoral response. I can't tell you how thankful I am for God's mercy and kindness toward our nation in yesterday's ruling overturning Roe v. Wade! Like many of you, this is a day for which I have been hoping and praying for many years. I read the news yesterday after flying back from Birmingham, and I was overwhelmed with happiness and gratitude. My father, Barry Anderson, directed the Crisis Pregnancy Center in Richmond, VA from the mid 1980s until the early 1990s, so I grew up from an early age on the front lines of these matters - both politically and practically. I was 12 years old in 1992, and I remember vividly the hope and expectation that Roe v. Wade might be overturned when the Planned Parenthood v. Casey case was heard, as well as the…
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