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… 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 … time. The 4-year-old's cries subside, and life resumes. These may not sound like magic words, but Ruth has learned …

… there are the DeJongs. They pour concrete with each other. It’s done much more, daughter Maggie says, than cement their … with what I wanted to be, as a therapist. I wondered, ‘Why aren’t we learning therapy?’” Though some aspects of the … go up. “I questioned how we view people and put them in these factions and tag them with these labels.” She …

… In fact, that commitment almost ended my career before it began. I had wanted to be a midwife since I was in my late … to hear how ordinary people like me had done so many important things to support unborn life — like praying … on the grounds that we conflicted with the university’s Equal Opportunities Policy. (I don’t think the university …

… thing to bite me. But he did. (She holds up a finger to show a small red scar, still healing.) Did it hurt? “A … words on that mask. And confused, because I didn’t know why it was happening.” At home, the phone rang. It was the … way she could see for herself that no one was making up these rules about masks. And that they didn’t owe her, or …

… 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 … 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 …

… the family returned to their borrowed truck, they found it sagging over a flat tire. With a sigh, they began digging … remembers, “and she encouraged our faith, too. She’s why I’m a Christian.” Jessica was still a young girl when her … a cot or on the floor in a social worker’s office. Some of these children are as young as 4. And reports of abuse are …

… It’s breakfast time at Grant Park Christian Academy. Children … hard-pressed for money, but “there’s no way I could have these kids eating that junk.” Nor was he willing to dismiss … classes, and mentoring students in things at least as important as geometry and geography. “We're in a community …

… personalized, at-home learning for their children. Smith’s view of education took a profound turn in 1981, when he … on the radio, not knowing whether we’d ever do it or not. But out of that, we said, “Let’s give this a try.” … The states went after them. So we started defending these families, one at a time — and as we won cases, those …

… to create the message, police officers informed them that they would be arrested if they painted or chalked on the … 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 …

… professor when an NPR news report changed her life. It was January 22, 1973. And while Peggy had encountered the issue of abortion during her undergraduate studies on the West Coast, the idea that one Supreme Court … unexpected pregnancy, Anne had been abandoned by the baby’s father but was unwilling to abort her unborn child. Unless …