In this episode, Chris and Alissa welcome their first guest: Kurt, LIFE International's president and founder. He traces the story from his grandfather's lap, watching Billy Graham crusades, to a devotional time in Genesis 1:26–27 when he thought he heard, "Kurt, you don't know My heart." It broke him, and it began a 40-year journey of growing in the heart of the Father for life.

A woman's rights are important, and the little person in the womb is very important, but what Kurt came to understand was, "This is an attack on Me." It is God's image that is under attack, through the most innocent of His creation. That is why Kurt says the issue is not primarily political but primarily spiritual, and its rightful place is in the Church.

Kurt also asks what a pro-life person should be like. The answer he heard from a room of young Christians: like Jesus. They talk about living this out in a way that is life-giving, holding your conviction while loving the image bearer in front of you, and moving from an issue-focused approach to a kingdom approach.

At the center is the gospel. As Kurt puts it, the most profound pro-life initiative in the history of mankind is when the Father sent His Son to die on the cross for you and me. The treasure is the Lord Jesus Christ and a redeemed relationship with the Father for eternity.

Have a question, or want to join the conversation? Email us at reimaged@lifeinternational.com.

reIMAGED is a podcast from LIFE International, bringing pro-life into gospel focus.

In this episode, Chris and Alissa start by defining their terms. At the very least, being pro-life means being anti-abortion, and abortion is the intentional ending of a human life. That word intentional matters. It's why a miscarriage is not an abortion. It's also why treating a mother's cancer is different from ending her baby's life: the goal is to treat both the woman and her baby as patients and keep both lives.

They also take on the hardest questions people raise, including pregnancy that results from rape, and why the answer always goes back to one question: what is in the womb? They talk about the difference between discussing an issue and sitting face to face with an image bearer who has been harmed. And they ask whether you have to address every issue to be "truly" pro-life, when life is the first human right, the one everything else is built on.

So who gets to define pro-life? Not politics, and not consensus, but Scripture. At the center is the gospel. As LIFE International president Kurt Dillinger likes to say, the most life-giving act in all of human history was Jesus' death on the cross and His resurrection. His forgiveness and healing are for everyone, including those whose story includes abortion.

Do you have questions or hear pushback when you talk about what it means to be pro-life? Email us at reimaged@lifeinternational.com.

reIMAGED is a podcast from LIFE International, bringing pro-life into gospel focus.

reIMAGED begins with a simple but radical claim: every human life has biblical worth. From there, we dig into all the ways people are denied, discarded, or devalued — without collapsing moral distinctions or treating every issue as interchangeable.

The right to life is the first right every other right depends on. That's why abortion isn't sidelined here as "just one topic" — it stays central to this podcast, examined honestly and without flinching, alongside the full range of ways human dignity is threatened and defended.

If you're looking for a show that takes life seriously — biblically, morally, and culturally — this is it.

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