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  • in. She got a good whiff of the food, looking longingly at the bag. Jean Marie offered her some of the fries.  “I’m … was considered a “slut.” That made it easy — once she was 18 and kicked out of the house — to start sleeping with men … some tried hard to make good on their threats. Fo almost 10 years, in 33 states, she earned her traffickers tens of …
  • … C ovid was dragging on and on, and for Jessica Bates’ five children — like so many others — the relative isolation … and her daughter, Dani. He appeared to have been camping at the reservoir for some time, and Jessica could smell … for the water. “Come see my puppies!” he called again. “We don’t need any puppies right now,” Jessica replied. …
  • … lost their jobs. Hundreds of thousands lost their lives. At the same time, our nation reckoned with racism and riots, … as it always does. In Romans, the Apostle Paul writes: “We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that … learn what kind of perseverance, character, and hope our shared suffering has produced. Whatever is ahead, I am …
  • … price for doing so. The art therapy counseling program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is regarded as … in the country — a graduate program so elite that only 10-12 new students are admitted each year. The more Maggie … that Maggie was unfit to work as an art therapist. It took 18 days to get the “no contact” orders rescinded. During that …
  • … a solemn warning: “If any of you girls 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 … uphold that.” So, when Ruth found out she was pregnant at 18, she saw no other option. She booked the earliest possible …
  • … It’s breakfast time at Grant Park Christian Academy. Children filter in from all … and whisperers at the table across the way. After a while, five students — representing each of the school’s three grade … the academy’s kitchen her own, stretching the school’s $10,000-a-month food budget with trips to farmers markets, …
  • … one, spending most of his days basking under a heat lamp in a clean glass case half as long as Lydia’s bed, listening … She’s become something of an authority on them. “I look at the color of their throat to see if they’re male or … skipped a beat. A principal calling had to mean bad news. “We’re going to have to replace Lydia’s mask,” the principal …
  • … to protect the right of families to provide personalized, at-home learning for their children. Smith’s view of … these families, one at a time — and as we won cases, those victories would apply throughout the state where we were. We … out their kids would have to sit in front of a computer five, six hours a day, they thought, “No way would we do that …
  • … to millions of Americans who have been underrepresented at this elite level: conservative women. I'm grateful for … written. But my gratitude is also more personal. Serving in public life as a conservative, a Christian, a woman, and a … refreshing to look at the Supreme Court bench and remember we're not alone. In part because of our religious …
  • … get involved. “I knew I had to do something,” Peggy writes in her book Foot Soldiers Armed with Love . “For me, this was … lifelong passion: combating abortion by helping one woman at a time. I've never met a woman who really, deep down, … who really, deep down, wanted to have an abortion. When we eliminate the perceived 'demand' for abortion one woman at