Prolife Kitchen Table
Join us as we share information and answer your questions about life issues from fertilization to natural death.
All of the materials used in this podcast are the product of four decades of work and research by Presbyterians Protecting Life – www.ppl.org. This isn’t just a podcast for Presbyterians – all of our materials are useful for anyone with an interest in protecting human life at every stage from fertilization to natural death.
We’ll use both scientific and philosophical sources, and for our Christian listener, there will be plenty of grounding in Scripture and a Biblical worldview. The show notes in each episode contain links to articles and scripture references. With the average 15 minute podcast length, and the addition of the list of scriptures and articles, each episode can be used for older student and adult Sunday Schools, group studies and personal study.
Most of the weekly topics will be available in hard copy from the PPL.ORG website and will cover a variety of subjects. We’ll talk about what it means to be human and how everyone is human from the moment of fertilization, and that our time in the womb is only a stage of development like being an infant, a toddler, a child, an adolescent, a mature adult and, if we are blessed with a long life, becoming elderly and how all those categories are categories of personhood and deserving of life and human rights.
Episodes
40 episodes
Episode 40 - Worship in Spirit and Truth - Baby Chris Week 40
Our Season 1 finale ends with the story of Mary and Joseph and the birth of Jesus, drawing from the gospels of Matthew and Luke, and using Marie Bowen's book, Pregnant With Promise. In addition to the story of the incarnation of Christ, t...
Episode 39 - The Butterfly Effect - Baby Chris Week 39
We are continuing to work our way through Marie Bowen's excellent book, Pregnant With Promise, and in this Episode we will learn about the miraculous birth of John the Baptist to Zachariah and Elizabeth, and how both John and Jesus were filled ...
Episode 38 - Focal Point - Baby Chris Week 38
The tumultuous story of David and Bathsheba illustrates how seriously God takes the sin of adultery. Sexual purity is not a peripheral Christian matter - it is a non-negotiable, foundational, core, not subject to interpretation or nuance. ...
Episode 37 - Prepare the Way - Baby Chris Week 37
The story of Hannah and the child she prayed for is beloved among the pregnancy accounts contained in Scripture. We continue to use Marie Bowen's book, Pregnant With Promise, to explore the theme of rejoicing in answered prayer.Scr...
Episode 36 - Love Among the Thorns - Baby Chris Week 36
We are continuing to use Marie Bowen's excellent book, Pregnant with Promise. The story of Lot's Daughters, Tamar and Ruth are woven together to show how God redeems the circumstances of these abused and widowed women from enemy tribes, b...
Episode 35 - Sink or Swim - Baby Chris Week 35
In this episode, we're continuing to follow Marie Bowen's excellent book, Pregnant with Promise, by examining the life of Manoah's wife, the mother of the famous superhero, Samson. Like every human being, God had a destiny for Samson plan...
Episode 34 - The Fullness of Time - Baby Chris Week 34
This week our study of the pregnancies of women in the Bible, using Marie Bowen's book, Pregnant With Promise, we move from Genesis into the Book of Exodus, where we meet Jochobed, the mother of the great leader, Moses. In the story of Jo...
Episode 33 - Impossible! - Baby Chris Week 33
This week's episode begins with a mini lesson on pro-life apologetics, before we dive into Marie Bowen's book Pregnant With Promise, to examine the chaotic family of Jacob and his wives, Leah and Rachel. Their story helps to remind us tha...
Episode 32 - Suit Up - Baby Chris Week 32
We're continuing to use Marie Bowen's book, Pregnant With Promise, to study the profiles of the pregnant women in the Bible. This week we learn about Rebecca's difficult pregnancy and her question: "Why is this happening to me?" ...
Episode 31 - Stand Fast - Baby Chris Week 31
The story of Abraham and Sarah's twenty-five year wait for a child is such a hopeful one! Even though they had God's promise that it would happen, they didn't know about the long wait. In a similar way, we who are believers have the certa...
Episode 30 - Life Support - Baby Chris Weeks 29 and 30
This week we're profiling the surrogate pregnancy of Hagar, found in Genesis 16, using the reflections from former PPL Executive Director Marie Bowen's book, Pregnant with Promise. As her months of pregnancy move along, Hagar learns that ...
Episode 29 - Booting Up - Baby Chris Week 28
The profiles for the next 13 weeks will be excerpted from Pregnant With Promise: A study of the character of God who cherishes human life as shown through the stories of women in the Bible, by former PPL Executive Director, Marie Bowen. T...
Episode 28 - Comfort Food - Baby Chris Week 27
Especially in churches, women will often take their abortion secret to the grave, because there are too few opportunities for confession and healing offered. But there are many brave women who have stepped up inside their churches and shared th...
Episode 27 - Watch and Pray - Baby Chris Week 26
When it comes to wrestling with the difficult medical questions surrounding abortion in cases where the life and health of the mother are threatened, what is the correct moral, medical and compassionate way to approach these conversations? ...
Episode 26 - Bloodwork - Baby Chris Week 25
A favorite tactic of pro-abortion activists is to claim that, "the Bible doesn't say anything about abortion" - this is not the flex they think it is. Another avenue of attack is to claim that in Numbers 5:11-31 God prescribes abortion as...
Episode 25 - Early Bird - Baby Chris Week 24
By week 24 of development in the womb, there is a greatly reduced risk of miscarriage - but the risk is not zero. Families who suffer these pregnancy losses are too often left to grieve unsupported by family, friends and church. Th...
Episode 24 - Breath of Heaven - Baby Chris Week 23
In last week's episode we talked about how attacks on Biblical sexuality are one-and-done for the Enemy, and this week's offering builds on that theme with an article by long-time PPL board President Rev. John Sheldon, on Purifying the Bride of...
Episode 23 - Hold On - Baby Chris Week 22
Sex is the church's sweet spot for its destruction and the corruption of the world. It's one-and-done for the Enemy, no matter which avenue Satan advances to attack: promiscuity, divorce, pornography, sexual fetishes, same-sex-attraction,...
Episode 22 - Artist-in-Residence - Baby Chris Week 21
When a human child I the womb can be ascribed - or denied - humanity and personhood because of the personal desires of any other human being, or the capricious opinions of legislators and secular ethicists - then no lives matter and al...
Episode 21 - Dormez Vous - Baby Chris Week 20
Reproductive technologies are advancing at a rate that exceeds our ability to assess them morally and ethically. Today's episode shares information from 2001 and 2025 on the rapid advancement from cloning to three-person IVF.Script...
Episode 20 - The Tree in the Middle of the Garden - Baby Chris Week 19
Compassion-minded Christians often repeat, "No one wants an abortion." One only needs to Google the search term, "Shout your abortion" to hear the testimonies of women who are proud and excited to tell of their abortion experiences. ...
Week 19 - A Song in My Heart - Baby Chris Week 18
Women who are now aged 60-80 were the first to be lied to in 1973 about how a fetus was "just a clump of cells," that sexual promiscuity was actually freedom without negative consequences. Now, more than 50 years later, these older women ...
EPISODE 18 - BABY FAT - BABY CHRIS WEEK 17
This episode concludes our three-week series on Abortion: Myths, Deceptions and Euphemisms. Long time PPL board member and frequent podcast contributor, Dr. Patricia Lee June, presents a comprehensive, medically detailed, explanation of t...
Episode 17 - Praying for Purity - Baby Chris Week 16
This is the second installment in PPL's three-part series titled, "Abortion: Myths, Deceptions and Euphemisms." PPL Board Member Dr. Ray Dunkelberg examines the myth of the mistaken notion that abortion rights empower women, when the trut...
Episode 16 - Our Only Comfort - Baby Chris Week 15
This is part one in a three-part series titled, "Abortion: Myths, Deceptions and Euphemisms." PPL Board Member Dr. Ray Dunkelberg tackles the first myth of the mistaken idea that "the Bible says nothing about abortion" - when the fact is ...
