About the Author

Mako A. Nagasawa is Director of The Anástasis Center for Christian Education and Ministry. He contributed to NIV God's Justice: The Holy Bible, as well as the Lazarus at the Gate Economic Discipleship Curriculum (2007). He is on the Elder Team of Neighborhood Church of Dorchester.

Reviews

""Mako A. Nagasawa's Abortion Policy and Christian Social Ethics in the United States is a tough-minded, learned, and prophetic work of social history and political theology. . . . This book is a significant contribution to move some Christians from simply being reductionistic anti-abortion to more robustly pro-life."" --Patrick T. Smith, Associate Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Bioethics, Duke Divinity School ""Mako Nagasawa's book is an extraordinary contribution to the longstanding, deeply divisive, seemingly irresolvable debate over abortion in Christian ethics. No significant angle on abortion fails to receive Nagasawa's painstaking, detailed, convincing attention: biological science, biblical exegesis, theological and pastoral history, legal history and debate, ethical analysis, practical implications. This is a study that loves God, loves the miracle of life, and calls on Christians to promote responsible sexual and parenting behavior by men as much as women."" --David W. Gill, author of Doing Right: Practicing Ethical Principles ""Amidst the toxic standoff of the culture wars, it is difficult to imagine a fresh Christian voice on abortion. But Mako Nagasawa's new book offers us a way beyond the impasse that is nuanced, visionary, and deeply biblical. If you think there's nothing left to say about abortion, this book will surprise and challenge you."" --Gary VanderPol, co-author of Return to Justice