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I have big thoughts on a recent op-ed from The Washington Post entitled, "I would’ve aborted a fetus with Down syndrome. Women need that right." But first, some context.
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What an apology given 34 years too late can teach us about the act of saying sorry
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When IF:Gathering - a multi-denominational women’s conference - debuted last year, they made an unheard of decision: they didn’t charge a ticket price. With a stellar line-up of must-read Christian female...
Read moreFor the last several months I've been compiling images to accompany the posts over at Velvet Ashes. The words of these ladies continue to resonate with me and I hope the images have stayed true to the stories they've shared.
I have an amazing mother, who raised me and my sister on her own, working hard and relying on the family of church and neighbours when her own lived wide across the state. It's a testimony to faith, really, that when she was alone in a big city with two little girls, men of God came alongside her. Women of God looked after her. And we were not alone, raised by our mother, and the Church.
The Church, she is not perfect. There was a time or two when she was found terribly wanting and absent, when we were in crisis and the hand of help was withdrawn. My mother was not a widow, you see, and we were not orphans. Not in the technical sense, anyway. And though she grieved and cried, wounded, my mother held on to faith. To God. She forgave, and waited for the Church to come around.
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