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Voting Matters: The Battle for the Soul of America
I don't think I know of a single person who would deny that voting matters. In our Democratic Republic, we have a chance to participate...
Jul 21, 20169 min read
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Be a Hero, Save A Whale - Feed the Homeless, Go to Jail
The homeless lump on the bench. It’s filthy. You can’t see a face -- this thing is covered up against the evening, only its feet sticking...
Oct 30, 20153 min read
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Children of War: More Reasons Social Conservatives Should Oppose a Hawkish Foreign Policy
Social conservatives often express concern for children’s need for a stable and traditional home life, with both biological parents...
Oct 30, 20158 min read
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Voting Matters: The Battle for the Soul of America
I don't think I know of a single person who would deny that voting matters. In our Democratic Republic, we have a chance to participate...
Oct 30, 20159 min read
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Women in Need of Complete Information on the Pill
Life Matters Journal is collaborating with The Guiding Project to bring you this regular column. April Jaure is the Blog Coordinator at...
Oct 30, 20154 min read
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Influences on the Vulnerable: Abortion and Assisted Suicide Decisions Are Not So “Private”
What do assisted suicide and abortion have in common? So many things. Like the death of an individual at the hand of a physician. They...
Oct 30, 20154 min read
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Our Identity Remains the Same Throughout Our Entire Life
I have been heavily involved in the pro-life movement for about five years now. I have done outreach with a number of pro-life groups,...
Oct 30, 201513 min read
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"Many That Live Deserve Death" - But The Fellowship Suggests Taking Courage Instead of Tak
The legendary story of The Lord of the Rings begins with The Fellowship of the Ring, in which all of Hobbiton is preparing to celebrate...
Oct 30, 20157 min read
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What's in it for the Born?
The Oxford English Dictionary defines “humanize” as 1) “to make more humane” and 2) “to give a human character to.” When we say,...
Oct 30, 201512 min read
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Women & Girls in The Wizard of Oz
The International L. Frank Baum & All Things Oz Historical Foundation held a fundraiser in August 2014 in connection with the house in...
Oct 30, 201512 min read
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A Red State Ends the Death Penalty: How Conservatives in Nebraska Came to Reject Capital Punishment
On May 27, Nebraska became the first red state since North Dakota in the 1970s to repeal the death penalty. As the country has shifted...
Oct 30, 201510 min read
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We Are Beloved
As I write, the United States is angry, anxious, saddened, and split over the shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers in...
Oct 30, 20157 min read
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Rejecting Mass Murder: Looking Back on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on, respectively, August 6th and 9th, 1945, in what were—to...
Oct 30, 20154 min read
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A Pro-Life Analysis of Obergefell v. Hodges
On June 4, Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation called out LGBT rights leaders for their hypocritical support of abortion. In...
Oct 30, 20155 min read
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Family Planning Freedom is Pro-Life
BY MARY KRANE DERR The right to access the full range of voluntary family planning methods is often neglected or actively undermined in...
Sep 13, 20116 min read
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Sonnet -- At 40 Weeks
BY LILIANNA SERBICKI Swollen, a dream on its way to fruition; Nothing romantic. Lense (soft-focus) gone. Real fruit bruises; a real fruit...
Sep 13, 20111 min read
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Ten Years Later
BY AIMEE BEDOY I am writing this ten years to the day that those towers fell. And ten years later, I want us to discuss what we have...
Sep 13, 20115 min read
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The Abolition of Capital Punishment in Illinois
BY NICHOLAS NEAL The abolition of the death penalty in Illinois began when Governor George Ryan placed a moratorium on capital punishment...
Sep 13, 20112 min read
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Justice in the Face of Unknowing
BY AIMEE BEDOY & STEVEN OETJEN A quandary of major proportions faces our nation in this day and age. It could be a matter of life and...
Sep 13, 201113 min read
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The Rebels Storming Tripoli
BY NICHOLAS NEAL & AIMEE BEDOY On Tuesday, August 23rd, the rebel forces in Libya stormed Gadhafi's capital of Tripoli, thus declaring...
Sep 13, 20112 min read
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