Catholic Writer and Speaker
My husband and a colleague of his are designing a multi-media middle school science course for homeschooling families. They are in the beginning stages and would like your input in order to create a product that meets homeschooling families’ real needs.
If you are a homeschooling parent of a middle school student, can you spare two minutes to take a brief survey and share your opinion?
Thank you!
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At the Washington Post this week, we’re talking about Obama’s public faith life. When it comes to convincing the American people he’s a Christian, is he stuck between a rock and hard place?
The president’s dilemma of how to handle his public religious identity could be easily solved if he were to behave in an unabashedly, unmistakably, and unapologetically Christian manner. Instead of hemming and hawing about the “correct” religious moves to make, he should embrace the fullness of the Christian faith he claims to profess and show the world he is a Christian instead of telling us all the time.
Go to church. Talk about Jesus. Don’t take God out of the Declaration of Independence. Let the American people see you turn to God in prayer. Speak humbly of your own need for a savior. These are the things a Christian does.
Last week’s Twitter trend of tweeting “I had an abortion” started people talking about life issues on Twitter.
I wrote a column for the Washington Post that challenged the wisdom of women cheerfully tweeting about their abortions and shutting those who regret their abortions out of the conversation.
Then I was officially “in it” on Twitter.
I had some thoughtful conversations with people who disagree with me, but I was also treated to enough angry vitriol that I decided we could better serve the pro-life cause with positive action. So I asked pro-lifers on Twitter to use an #IAmProLife hashtag and tell us why. I will be re-tweeting people’s responses at my Twitter account all day today.
If you are on Twitter, please join us in making a positive statement in defense of the unborn. And encourage your followers to do the same. Let your pro-life voice be heard!
At the Washington Post today, I am writing about the “I had an abortion” Twitter trend and the ways in which “pro-choicers” attempt to misrepresent abortion and mislead women.
Abortion is not a haircut. It is not a tooth extraction. Abortion is a moral decision to end a human life, stop a heart beat, and deny a defenseless human being the right to exist. Those who attempt to re-paint abortion as an amoral action without life-changing consequences are fooling themselves.
My latest column at Inside Catholic:
When I first learned about the communion of saints in grade school CCD classes, I envisioned the souls in purgatory and heaven as largely nameless, faceless folks with whom I was somehow, inexplicably, spiritually connected. But now that I count Grandpapa and other real-life friends and family members among them, our communion has become more tangible and real.
Happy Election Day!
At the Washington Post this week, we’re talking about religion and politics. Is voting a religious act or purely political? What’s’ the difference?
Come read my take on single-issue voters and Catholic moral guidance in the voting booth. Share your comments too!
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