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… Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is regarded as one of the best in the country — a graduate program so elite … into the SIUE art therapy counseling program. After two interviews in as many years, the faculty must have had … there.” And the biggest burden was yet to come. One afternoon early in the spring of her final semester, Maggie …

… 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 … and Lydia is in the third grade. One day last October, the two came running and piled into the car, breathless as usual … her feel bad, like she’s done something wrong.” That afternoon, Lydia climbed into the car wearing a different …

… was wearing a little thin. Time for a break. So, one sunny afternoon, Jessica and the children borrowed a truck and … take a puppy.” He certainly had plenty to choose from: two whole litters, wiggling and wobbly and ready for a home. …

… was in its infancy? MS: At that time, in 1981, we had two children in private school and were not satisfied with … went after them. So we started defending these families, one at a time — and as we won cases, those victories would apply throughout the state where we were. We …

… Academy. Children filter in from all corners of the one-mile-square, low-income neighborhood in East Tampa, … more quietly by their moms — mostly single women, grateful for somewhere to leave their children during the long day’s work ahead. Two vanloads of children will soon swell the ranks, …

… her undergraduate studies on the West Coast, the idea that one Supreme Court decision could obliterate state-level protections for unborn life came as a genuine shock. But shortly after … rooms and church basements to anyone who would listen. Two years later, Peggy and her husband, Mike, met a young …

… 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 … began to share some Scriptures. She hadn’t read but one or two before Jean Marie interrupted. “I don’t trust any man,” … “get up at 6 o’clock in the morning, not 2 o’clock in the afternoon.” She immersed herself in the Bible. “I read it …

… For women and girls facing an unwanted pregnancy, abortion … her a week to work up the courage to tell her parents. “One morning I called my mother into my room. I simply handed … goal to pursue a career in medicine. The couple had two more children. Today, 20 years later, Frankie Jr. is a …

… a pro-life message on a public city sidewalk. In June, two murals reading, “Black Lives Matter” and “Defund the … city block. The Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America sought to paint a similar mural outside a … "There is no constitutional right to gamble, but there is one that protects attending worship services." David Cortman, …

… a commitment to protecting unborn life would be an asset for a midwife. In fact, that commitment almost ended my … care setting. More and more, I felt called to take care of pregnant women and help bring life into the world. I … but had to inquire again and again before I received one. I learned that one of my lecturers had submitted a …