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… 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 … “Get out of the state, or I’m going to kill you.” Pimps say things like that all the time. This one meant it. She …

… of the concrete trucks were always impressed. They’d say, ‘She’s better than all the guys out here.’” A good work … 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 It took 18 days to get the “no contact” orders rescinded.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 …

… roams her family’s small Braxton, Mississippi, farm with a little pack of loyal dogs, including an old mama … ones bite me.” You let them … “I don’t know,” she shrugs. “It feels good, for some reason. Their teeth … it’s like a … into action. “ You need to look at this, ” she felt Him say, as she stared at the restart plan. “ You need to look at …

… was pregnant at age 16. “My initial instinct was to hide it from my family,” she says. She remembered a small building … than just a kid that made a dumb mistake.” But Eva left with no intention of returning, and a gnawing question … 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 … the academy’s kitchen her own, stretching the school’s $10,000-a-month food budget with trips to farmers markets, … “Grant Park was courageous enough to take that stand and say, ‘No, this isn’t right.’ Because they did that, all …

… a similar mural outside a Planned Parenthood facility with the message “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter,” and the … two months of assuring Hermiston Christian School that it could provide in-person instruction to its 51 students, … of defrauding the government in a lawsuit filed in state court. The lawsuit claims the churches committed fraud by …

… the family returned to their borrowed truck, they found it sagging over a flat tire. With a sigh, they began digging about the vehicle for … the romantic deck was already stacked; before she could say anything, David explained that he himself was a …

… professor when an NPR news report changed her life. It was January 22, 1973. And while Peggy had encountered the … studies on the West Coast, the idea that one Supreme Court decision could obliterate state-level protections for … something,” Peggy writes in her book Foot Soldiers Armed with Love . “For me, this was a never-to-be-forgotten day, …

… that even the wisest among us could have hardly predicted. It was nearly one year ago that a pathogen — the kind that … lost their lives. At the same time, our nation reckoned with racism and riots, followed by a hyper-partisan election … 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 …

… Coney Barrett's recent confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court is truly momentous and a cause for celebration. … when a justice believes her role is to apply the law as it is written, rather than as she would like it to be … of reducing the number of conservative Christian women with careers in the public square. Her inspiring presence …