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  • … The art therapy counseling program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is regarded as one of the best in the country — a graduate program so elite … with what I wanted to be, as a therapist. I wondered, ‘Why aren’t we learning therapy?’” Though some aspects of the …
  • … since I was in my late teens and started to explore university courses. Pregnancy and childbirth were fascinating … warning that this was even being considered. Normally, a student has to do something quite serious to be suspended … but had to inquire again and again before I received one. I learned that one of my lecturers had submitted a …
  • her a week to work up the courage to tell her parents. “One morning I called my mother into my room. I simply handed … children. Today, 20 years later, Frankie Jr. is a college student and a pro-life advocate. “He loves to speak out … enrolled at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado in 2016, she had friends, extracurricular activities, a job — …
  • … 9-year-old loves a bearded lizard named Arlo. He’s a big one, spending most of his days basking under a heat lamp in a … words on that mask. And confused, because I didn’t know why it was happening.” At home, the phone rang. It was the … website. What she did find was the 2013 Mississippi Student Religious Liberties Act, which guarantees the freedom …
  • … was wearing a little thin. Time for a break. So, one sunny afternoon, Jessica and the children borrowed a … remembers, “and she encouraged our faith, too. She’s why I’m a Christian.” Jessica was still a young girl when her … me more curious.” By the time Jessica graduated from the university, her faith was a major factor even in her love …
  • … defended the free speech rights of a Portland State University graduate student who was excluded from a course after she said she … "There is no constitutional right to gamble, but there is one that protects attending worship services." David Cortman, …
  • … L ike most of us, Jean Marie Davis knows enough not to pick up hitchhikers. Unlike some of us, she knows a nudge from the Lord when she feels one. A few months ago, she felt one.  She was headed to work … she says. “I think that’s what scares me the most. It’s why I hunger after Jesus. I fight for what I believe in — and …
  • her undergraduate studies on the West Coast, the idea that one Supreme Court decision could obliterate state-level … Roe v. Wade decision, Peggy sensed an irresistible calling to get involved. “I knew I had to do something,” Peggy writes … 1.5 million clients each year. Peggy shifted roles in 2016 to lead Heartbeat’s board, and she remains active in the …
  • … Academy. Children filter in from all corners of the one-mile-square, low-income neighborhood in East Tampa, … their moms — mostly single women, grateful for somewhere to leave their children during the long day’s work ahead. Two … She sent them with just the franks.” Another mom sent her child each day with a Little Debbie cake and a bag of …
  • … President and CEO Michael Farris, founded HSLDA in 1983 to protect the right of families to provide personalized, … went after them. So we started defending these families, one at a time — and as we won cases, those victories would … would have thought about homeschooling. But when she and her husband found out their kids would have to sit in front …