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… It’s breakfast time at Grant Park Christian Academy. Children … on them. Pastor Alfred Johnson Pastor Alfred Johnson didn’t have a dream, but he knew some men who did. What Alfred — … one day found himself longing for something else. “My soul isn’t happy,” he told family and friends. “Something isn’t …

… they can actually run. The males are braver, and they don’t run that fast. I look to see if they’re healthy, and make … ones bite me.” You let them … “I don’t know,” she shrugs. “It feels good, for some reason. Their teeth … it’s like a … Ross says, “so that they can’t pick and choose what is and isn’t political, or what counts as religious or not …

… the groups’ First Amendment rights. “The government can’t discriminate against certain viewpoints by allowing some … two months of assuring Hermiston Christian School that it could provide in-person instruction to its 51 students, … penalties if they instruct the children. "Gov. Brown’s personal preference for public over private education does …

… In fact, that commitment almost ended my career before it began. I had wanted to be a midwife since I was in my late … on the grounds that we conflicted with the university’s Equal Opportunities Policy. (I don’t think the university saw the irony of this reasoning.) We …

… get rid of the cigarette,” Jean Marie told her. “You can’t smoke in my car.” The woman threw away the cigarette and … the time.” If the young woman was startled at her driver’s deduction, at least she didn’t deny it. “I smoke crack,” she confessed. “I used to do crystal …

… there are the DeJongs. They pour concrete with each other. It’s done much more, daughter Maggie says, than cement their … “I was like, ‘This is a thing?’” she says. “I didn’t know a lot about it. But I just jumped in, and I didn’t … I’ll speak.’ And I’d get this feeling in my gut: ‘This isn’t right.’” Her hand would go up. “I questioned how we …

… professor when an NPR news report changed her life. It was January 22, 1973. And while Peggy had encountered the … unexpected pregnancy, Anne had been abandoned by the baby’s father but was unwilling to abort her unborn child. Unless … and all with God’s love to motivate their every move.” “It’s so clear that God is working,” she says, “and we take …

… pregnancy, abortion may seem like the only solution. I can’t afford to raise a child. I’m too young. I’ll have to drop … gets pregnant, we’re done — you’re gone.” That was Eva’s consuming thought when she found out she was pregnant at age 16. “My initial instinct was to hide it from my family,” she says. She remembered a small building …

… the water. “Come see my puppies!” he called again. “We don’t need any puppies right now,” Jessica replied. “Thanks, … the family returned to their borrowed truck, they found it sagging over a flat tire. With a sigh, they began digging … Jessica remembers, “and she encouraged our faith, too. She’s why I’m a Christian.” Jessica was still a young girl when …

… that even the wisest among us could have hardly predicted. It was nearly one year ago that a pathogen — the kind that … any in recent memory. The Bible provides perspective, as it always does. In Romans, the Apostle Paul writes: “We also … out of the long shadow cast by 2020 and into a new day’s light. Yet new challenges are already on their way. We will …