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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 … the phone to one ear with her shoulder, as duty calls once again. “Sorry, I promise I’m listening. I’m just trying to …

… 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 … myself an overcomer.” Jean Marie Davis J ean Marie saw her again, the other day. The hitchhiker, out walking her dog. …

… Peggy Hartshorn was a young wife and aspiring English professor when an NPR news report changed her life. It was January 22, 1973. And while Peggy had encountered the … unexpected pregnancy, Anne had been abandoned by the baby’s father but was unwilling to abort her unborn child. Unless …

… In fact, that commitment almost ended my career before it began. I had wanted to be a midwife since I was in my late … on the grounds that we conflicted with the university’s Equal Opportunities Policy. (I don’t think the university … I asked the School for an explanation, but had to inquire again and again before I received one. I learned that one of …

… 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 … challenging the church’s title to the property, a December 2019 court decision prohibited the use of the building. The …

… Lydia Booth happily roams her family’s small Braxton, Mississippi, farm with a little pack of … ones bite me.” You let them … “I don’t know,” she shrugs. “It feels good, for some reason. Their teeth … it’s like a … that mask. And confused, because I didn’t know why it was happening.” At home, the phone rang. It was the school …

… that even the wisest among us could have hardly predicted. It was nearly one year ago that a pathogen — the kind that … 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 … lives of our clients. And I am confident that He can do it again. I count it a privilege to face future challenges with …

… and make for the water. “Come see my puppies!” he called again. “We don’t need any puppies right now,” Jessica … the family returned to their borrowed truck, they found it sagging over a flat tire. With a sigh, they began digging … Jessica remembers, “and she encouraged our faith, too. She’s why I’m a Christian.” Jessica was still a young girl when …

… there are the DeJongs. They pour concrete with each other. It’s done much more, daughter Maggie says, than cement their relationship. “My dad is a sixth-grade teacher, and in the summers, he was also a …

… 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.” … it was through God’s grace, because we saw over and over again how God intervened to help us win. F&J: What’s one of …