I have been pro-life my whole life
It drove our decision to adopt 3 children
We have donated to Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Until recently it has driven our voting
Yet I have not been able to celebrate
#RoeVsWadeOverturned—a former dream—like I thought I would.
Why?
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“She was willing to endure the abuse herself but was not willing to allow her children to be abused.”
This is how many churches treat women who report abuse. + an influential pastor + other current pastors.
It should not be so. This is not Jesus.
https://t.co/KyjrLrqvNR
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has reportedly led to the destruction of roughly 25 works by the beloved Ukrainian folk painter, Maria Prymachenko. https://t.co/VubLptnbw4
"It is each child’s constitutional as well as birth-right to have a normal childhood. It is high time the public comes out of disproportionate fear of Covid-19... The future of our children is at stake."
https://t.co/3dIHZCBdGI
If there’s anything I wish people in the church would get about people who have been hurt from the church, it’s this: almost everyone I know who cannot bring themselves to return to church desperately wishes they could.
It’s horrible to know you can’t handle being there.