by LauraLoo Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich tells the story about how Gen. George Washington led his troops across the Delaware to surprise the Hessians at Trenton, helping to defeat the British. Never forget the price that was paid to liberate a nation and people. The cost of our country’s way of life was great; let’s [...]
She’s our miracle and Christmas will be more about family and God than what you are getting. It’s all about our family now. ~ Mom Kristi Rhodes comments on 4-month-old daughter Savannah’s surprise conception, DNJ.com, December 24 After suffering 10 miscarriages due to a hormonal issue, Kristi discovered she was pregnant during unrelated preoperative tests [...]
by LauraLoo For those of you who are medically able to participate in blood donation, here is your reminder if you haven’t done so for a while…or if you never have given at all. It is such a great feeling to donate, knowing you are saving lives. I am many months overdue in donating blood [...]
But the thing about this website is that if you scan through and look at what everyone is sacrificing, almost everyone is giving something up that you really should be giving up anyway, because it’s bad for you. They’re all promising to sacrifice something that’s really crappy and you should be cutting down on it [...]
Merry blessed Christmas, everyone! Am reposting my WND Christmas column from 2004, The Embryonic Jesus Story… At this time of year, we focus on Christ’s birth, but there is a fascinating incident the Bible describes near the beginning of Jesus’ human life, several months prior. It is the Embryonic Jesus Story. Luke 1 tells about [...]
Here’s the third in the repeat of my Sunday series during the month of December on the fascinating abolitionist history behind some of our most beloved Christmas hymns. Pro-lifers identify closely with those 150 years ago who fought to free another oppressed class of people. (Also see “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” and [...]
by LauraLoo This is also a repeat from last year – too good to watch just once. Merry Christmas everyone – and Happy Birthday Jesus! <3 My Favourite Time of Year is a traditional style Christmas song which was written by Leigh Haggerwood. After three years of trying to persuade the record companies to back the project, [...]
My niece is pregnant but her parents don’t know yet and she doesn’t have a lot of money. Is it a good Christmas present to pay for the abortion myself or should I just pay for it and get her something more traditionally “Christmas-y”? ~ Alex, Yahoo Answers, December 22
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com. Accepting Abundance and Coming Home discuss a Minnesota high school pep rally “practical joke” which involved students who were blindfolded and then kissed [...]
by LauraLoo Repeat Christmas Lunch Break from last year – my favorite! Merry Christmas everyone!! Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions. [HT: Stephen & Jamie]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
One of the current popular video trends on YouTube consists of men going through simulated labor. It’s an interesting concept and the men have some funny reactions. But when you read the comments underneath the videos you start to wonder if women get a little more pleasure out of them than simply for curiosity or humor’s sake. It seems as if the videos are being used to back up an accusation, a popular accusation—the accusation that goes like this:
Women are stronger than men. Women suffer more. And men will never, ever, EVER understand.
Women say this kind of stuff all the time. About how men “don’t understand.” We complain about the stretch marks that babies give us but don’t give them. We insist that the father cannot ever know best for the child simply because he didn’t birth the child….
And why do we say all this? Because it builds us up. It makes us feel stronger. And a lot of this is a reaction to the many ways in which the strength of womanhood has been overlooked or taken for granted throughout history and today. We want to be appreciated, and rightfully so. But… [w]e aren’t content knowing we are strong, and so women fall into the trend of delighting in a man’s weakness – delighting when he doesn’t fully understand, or better yet, can’t fully understand….
There was a time when it was standard to consider women not worth understanding — to consider the woman’s task and life frivolous and easy. We’ve seen the damage this outlook has inflicted, not only on women, but on the whole world. So how dare we test our luck by turning the vice around?
How bold we are to assume that devaluing men won’t have a negative effect on the world at large. How bold we are to assume that it won’t hurt all of us, not just men.
~ Elizabeth Hanna Pham, “In Defense of Men,” New Feminism, June 15
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