Melissa Bartell | January 22, 2010
There are many things in this life I have never experienced. I pride myself in being fairly open minded and willing to experiment. I think it gives me a greater appreciation for seeing the world through another person’s eyes. It makes me well rounded; more so than you might say if you met me in [...]
Melissa Bartell | January 22, 2010
I was born in 1970, which makes me three years older than Roe v. Wade. It also means that I grew up in a world where safe, legal abortion was a fact of life…or so I thought. When I was eighteen and nineteen and living in San Jose, Operation Rescue, the militant anti-choice group, targeted [...]
Amy Williams | January 22, 2010
For me, it is a gut instinct that a woman, and those she chooses to include in the decision, should determine whether she carries an embryo through to birth. Does life start at conception? Maybe it does, but that life is not more important than the one that carries it. The life that chooses whether [...]
Melissa Bartell | January 22, 2010
Today is the 37th anniversary of the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, which granted women the right – and access – to safe, legal abortion. It’s also the fifth annual NARAL Pro-Choice America “blog for choice” day, in which bloggers are asked to post about reproductive freedom, pro-choice activism, or anything else related to [...]
Scott Grey | January 21, 2010
This letter from ‘Satan’ to Pat Robertson is traveling like wildfire around the Internet – perhaps because he has offended so many people with his latest comments about the tragedy in Haiti. As posted by Lily Coyle to the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Dear Pat Robertson, I know that you know that all press is good [...]
Scott Grey | December 31, 2009
“The Congregation is the Curriculum” Rev. Mark Walz presents the 3rd part of his discussion of the sign on the wall of his office. How we, the congregation, shape the message and meaning of this church.
Scott Grey | December 31, 2009
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us…lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us. – Hebrews 12:1 Rev. Marcia Shannon explores the use of the image of “a great cloud of witnesses,” found [...]
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