Angelina Jolie’s Double Mastectomy

I have a friend who proactively had a double mastectomy, even though she showed no signs of cancer, as a radical — but effective — preventative measure. [Read more...]

Quote of the Day, Inspired by Last Night’s Survivor Finale

Normally, people at least pretend they have big plans when presented with a large sum of money.  Sometimes, they say they’ll give a portion to charity.  Other times, they talk about beginning a business. [Read more...]

What This White Mother Did to Her Black Daughter’s Hair: Bantu Knots

It’s been a long time since I updated you guys on progress with our daughter Naomi’s hair! [Read more...]

Kermit Gosnell and the Perils of Pro-Choice Republicans

Among the many, many dispiriting aspects of the Kermit Gosnell saga is this terrible political reality: It was a Republican administration that ended inspections of abortion clinics [Read more...]

Giveaway: Freefall to Fly by Rebekah Lyons

Rebekah Lyons new book Freefall to Fly: A Breathtaking Journey Toward a Life of Meaning bravely shares her battles with anxiety and  depression as well as her search for meaning as a Christian mom of three in New York City.

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Are Military Leaders and the MSM Embracing an Anti-Christian Extremist?

SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES – US Admiral Jonathan Greenert (L), Chief of US Naval Operations, US Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus (C) and US General James Amos, Commandant of the US Marine Corps, testify on the Defense Authorization Request for the fiscal year 2014 budget during a US Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2013.

Over at Breitbart.com, a post discussing potential Pentagon regulations prohibiting proselytization has gone viral, at last count with more than 1.2 million Facebook shares and 8,000 comments. [Read more...]

Delayed Effects of Deployment

‘I want to join the Army,” my husband said. [Read more...]

The Good We Did

March and April of 2008 were the worst two months of my life. [Read more...]

Every Abortion Clinic is an Atrocity

Zion Presbyterian Church in 1936

A few years ago, my wife reviewed and updated our church’s official history — a book-length tome that details and summarizes the highs and lows of a 207-year-old congregation. [Read more...]

Is the Left Launching an Attack on Evangelical Adoption?

Thanks to the publication of Kathryn Joyce’s new book, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (excerpted here in Mother Jones, and Ms. Joyce is interviewed here at NPR), there’s been an online wave of criticism/examination of Evangelicals’ so-called orphan fever.  [Read more...]