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Adding Fuel to the Flame
A Message from Bob Spiel, UFI Chairman of the Board: Last year at this time your generosity overwhelmed us. I expressed to you our need for the financial resources to take on the challenges of 2014 – and donations came from around the globe large and small. The...
A Sound Marital House
From the Desk of Laura Bunker: An unprecedented conference of world religious leaders was recently convened at the Vatican to discuss the importance of marriage and family. Entitled “Humanum: An International Interreligious Colloquium on the Complementarity of Man...
Worried about the Future?
From the Desk of Laura Bunker: December 25, 1877, Southeastern Nevada: As the first year of settlement ended in the little town of Bunkerville, twenty-three people made up the community. It had been a struggling year, with no time for fun or recreation in the face of...
Gratitude is power in the home
Thank you, Gracias, Merci, Danke, Hvala, Dhanyavaad, Kamsahamnida! As we approach the Thanksgiving season in America, we express heartfelt gratitude for your part in the work of United Families International over the past year. We sincerely thank our wonderful...
Millennial Madness
From the Desk of Laura Bunker: Some of the most powerful voices for marriage and family are young adults -- the “millennials.” That is why we enthusiastically post articles written by our UFI Interns and other college students on our UFI Blog and Facebook page, along...
Something Wicked this Way Comes
Something Wicked this Way Comes... A 1962 fantasy novel, later made into a Disney movie, borrowed its title from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: “Something Wicked This Way Comes.” It was the story of a traveling carnival who arrived at idyllic, unsuspecting “Green Town,”...
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The Balancing Act
by Erin Weist I recently read a book written in 1955 by a woman who visited a quiet beach for a vacation alone for several weeks. She observed the world around her and recorded her thoughts as they related to her life, subsequently publishing them as Gift from the...
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 center to counsel men who had been classified as unemployable. They were not derelicts, Mrs. Moore reports, but instead, well-dressed and...
A Path to Defunding Planned Parenthood
by Diane Robertson Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the United States. They kill over 300,000 unborn babies each year, and they have been caught illegally selling body parts of unborn babies. So, here at United Families International, we can only...
They, It and Identity
by McKayla Skinner Recently, BBC News published an article entitled Canadian Baby ‘First Without Gender Designation’ On Health Card. The article talks about a non-binary transgender person (neither completely male or female) known as Kori Doty (originally a female),...
Good News and Challenges on the Religious Liberty Front
by William C. Duncan At the close of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent term, the Court issued an important religious liberty decision and announced another decision was likely to come during the next term. The recent Trinity Lutheran decision involved a Missouri...
Our Home School Journey
by Diane Robertson As a parent of many children, I have run the gamut of affordable school choices. I started my kids in public school. Dabbled for a couple years in home schooling, tried out a renowned charter school and ultimately pulled my kids out formal schooling...