The Lives and Times of Marjorie Walker: A Short Story
BY SARAH TERZO It was a dull, gray morning when Marjorie Walker drove into the parking lot of North Ridge Women's Center and parked her...
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- Mar 30, 2012
- 1 min
Both Utmost Sanctuary
BY MARY KRANE DERR for the Consistent Life 25th Anniversary Conference Never mind and never heart the prearranged war that splits and...
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- Mar 30, 2012
- 2 min
Grave Concerns.
BY LISA GROVES Sixty-seven days ago I discovered the utility of making major life decisions in a cemetery. Ripe ground for an epiphany,...
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- Mar 30, 2012
- 4 min
Pragmatism vs. Idealism
BY AIMEE BEDOY Photo by Krystal T; some rights reserved. As you may know from reading my Letter from the Editor, I attended the...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 2 min
Penn State: Evidence of a Larger Problem
BY AIMEE BEDOY The cult of celebrity reaches far and wide and covers a multitude of sins, it seems. At least in the United States, fans...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 2 min
On Drones and Due Process
BY NICHOLAS NEAL In 2011, one of the greatest blows against the sanctity of human life and the rule of law was struck. On September...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 2 min
Commentary on the Davis and Brewer Executions
BY NICHOLAS NEAL On September 21, 2011, Troy Davis was executed after failing to appeal to the Supreme Court for a 22-year death row case...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 8 min
A Disturbing Trend: Pro-Choice Activists are Admitting that Abortion is Murder
BY SARAH TERZO It is usually assumed, in the abortion debate, that the fundamental difference between the pro-life and pro-choice...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 4 min
Towards a More Consistent Feminism: A Commentary on "Feminism is for Everybody"
BY NICHOLAS NEAL The most important point in Bell Hooks' chapters 11-15 of Feminism is for Everybody is the connection between violence...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 3 min
A Preemptive Death Penalty
BY NICHOLAS NEAL During a discussion of abortion, one of my classmates -- a political progressive -- stated that abortion was needed in...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 7 min
Sidestepping the Culture War: The Future of the Pro-Life Movement
BY KELSEY HAZZARD "We systematically vilified the Catholic Church and its 'socially backward ideas' and picked on the Catholic hierarchy...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 3 min
No Aggression, No Homicide: Being Libertarian & Consistent Life
BY NICHOLAS NEAL "The consistent right-to-life position should be to protect the unborn and oppose abortion, to reject the death penalty,...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 8 min
Divide Issues, Not the Movement: A Reflection on Being GLBT and Pro-Life
BY ANNA SAUBER KUNTZ Take a moment and think of one of your favorite pro-lifers. Maybe it's an internationally recognized leader in the...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 15 min
Respect for Life: The Consistent Life Ethic in Catholic Social Teaching
BY JULIA SMUCKER Life issues, in any form, have typically proven divisively controversial in general public discourse, and they have been...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 6 min
Quakers Need a Pro-Life Peace Testimony
BY RACHEL MacNAIR, PhD The Religious Society of Friends, more commonly known as the Quakers, was founded in the mid-1600s in England...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 2 min
On "A Heart for Freedom"
BY CAROL CROSSED Chai Ling's book A Heart for Freedom (Tyndale House Publishers, 2011) is a clearly written treatise on Ling's journey...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 4 min
The Unexpected Truth in "The Ides of March"
BY AIMEE BEDOY I have to warn you, if you intend to read on, I will spoil an important part of the story's plot. So if you intend to see...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 10 min
Never a Disappointment: A Short Story
BY ANGEL ARMSTEAD "You're pregnant again?" I quickly glanced around us. "Quiet. I don't want everyone in Wal-Mart knowing my business."...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 2 min
No Mad.
BY LISA GROVES No Mad. When I was six years old I deliberately dropped my brand new baby doll into a long-abandoned well in my parents'...
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- Dec 20, 2011
- 1 min
Wrappings
BY AIMEE BEDOY if you believe in the dignity of human life -- how can you sit idly by, while thousands and millions of humans die by the...
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