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Victims of the Opioid Epidemic: Children
By McKayla Skinner Recently I came across a CNN article entitled “The Opioid Crisis Took this 8-year-old’s Father Away” by ... Read more
Picture Perfect
By Cathi Bond In today’s technological world we are bombarded with hundreds of images of ‘perfect’ men and women every day in all ... Read more
Moral Questions About Abortion
By Diane Robertson The modus operandi for today's abortion debate focuses on the humanity, or not, of the unborn. Some may argue ... Read more
What Matters Most
By Ashley Corbaley I do not live far from Houston and Hurricane Harvey hit much too close to home. As word that Harvey had turned ... Read more
Silencing Your Ideological Opponent with a Label
by Tori Black Hate. Feelings of prejudice filling people with such animus and loathing that they are motivated to hurt, to harm, ... Read more
Using a Label as a Weapon
Silencing Your Ideological Opponent with a Label Hate. Feelings of prejudice filling people with such animus and loathing that they ... Read more
FAMILY: OUR GREATEST REFUGE DURING LIFE’S STORMS
By McKayla Skinner Family is our greatest refuge during life’s storms. This timeless truth was proven once again during the recent ... Read more
I Witnessed Abuse and Didn’t Help. What Would You Have Done?
By Ailee Olsen In October of 2013, I was in a poor neighborhood of Malang (a small town in Indonesia) visiting friends at their ... Read more
Marriage Is Not About You, Whether You’re Gay or Straight
By Hannah Gibson As humans, we all have a driving need to belong, to be loved, and to give love. This applies to all of us, ... Read more
Definition of the Family
By Breaunna Stone It seems that from the beginning of time, the family has been described as a mother, a father, and their children. ... Read more
Pedophilia on the Rise
By Diane Robertson Between the breakdown of the family and wide-spread pornography usage, child sexual abuse seems to be on the ... Read more
The Power of Teaching Children to Work
by Elise Ellsworth Many years ago, homeschooling pioneer, Dorothy Moore, described "a woman who was asked by a rehabilitation ... Read more
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