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  • … homeschooling families for nearly four decades — first as a homeschool parent, and now as president of Home School Legal Defense Association. Smith, along with ADF President and CEO … of it myself.” It was that good. And he asked, “Well, how would you like to be in on the ground floor?” I accepted, …
  • … Maggie says, than cement their relationship. “My dad is a sixth-grade teacher, and in the summers, he was also a … had a good attitude, never a complaint. She just knew how to push hard. The drivers of the concrete trucks were … wound up wearing the ADF scarf while presenting her oral defense of her graduate thesis. “I remember grabbing the ends …
  • … 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, … wanting to kill me. I remember wanting to kill myself.” “How’d you get out?” the woman asked. “Because of Jesus,” Jean …
  • … Peggy Hartshorn was a young wife and aspiring English professor when an NPR news … 22, 1973. And while Peggy had encountered the issue of abortion during her undergraduate studies on the West … bring shame to herself and her family. The Hartshorns took her in, and in the process discovered what would become …
  • to the U.S. Supreme Court is truly momentous and a cause for celebration. Shattering a unique glass ceiling, she has become the first mother of school-age children to serve on the high court, where her … believer. Kristen Waggoner It would be unwise to predict how Justice Barrett might rule on particular issues related …
  • … may seem like the only solution. I can’t afford to raise a child. I’m too young. I’ll have to drop out of school. My … the screen. She sees the girl’s face change, and remembers how powerful an image like this was when she faced her own … mother when she became pregnant with her first child as a 17-year-old high school student. She managed to graduate …
  • … roams her family’s small Braxton, Mississippi, farm with a little pack of loyal dogs, including an old mama Boston … need some questions answered,” she said. “I need to know how often your staff goes to a specific room looking for a … (ADF) to the Booths, as a group that might come to their defense. They called, and ADF agreed to take their case. In …
  • … children — like so many others — the relative isolation of homeschooling was wearing a little thin. Time for a break. So, one sunny afternoon, … Puppy Man wanted to help change the tire. He pointed out how uneven the ground was and said he had a much safer jack …
  • … Christian Academy. Children filter in from all corners of the one-mile-square, low-income neighborhood in East Tampa, Florida. Some scamper in alone, some with a friend. Not a few are escorted more quietly by their moms — … families of the impoverished community well enough to know how much the predominantly single parents wanted a better …
  • … have hardly predicted. It was nearly one year ago that a pathogen — the kind that health experts had long feared — began spreading around the world and into the lives of Americans. Life ground to a halt. Businesses, churches, … overstepped their authority and trampled religious freedom. I think of courageous young people like Florida …