In These 12 Days of Christmas, Thoughts on Mother God
Motherhood is an earthy, human, painful, female event, filled with soaring joy and searing pain. God came to us like this.
Changing the Way I Approach Abortion
I'm ready to leave behind the language and baggage of the pro-life movement to explore a politically unattached whole-life ethic.
Silent Doulas: The Problem With Being ‘A Voice for the Voiceless’
And in their haste to expedite the birth process, they end up playing not the role of a good birth companion, but of an abuser, an oppressor, of someone who forces a birth too soon. This is the opposite of solidarity.
Have you been 'born again'?
AUGUST 28, 2013 | BY: MORF MORFORD -- “Have you been born again?” was a popular question a generation ago. This question...
You Can Be Pro-Choice Politically and Be A Pro-Life Advocate In Your Community
BY: ROMAL TUNE -- As a Christian and an ordained minister I have wondered if it is possible to be pro-choice politically but advocate...
Letters to My Unborn Children: the Silent Grief of Miscarriage
BY: SHAWN COLLINS -- Our first pregnancy in 2004 ended in a miscarriage right after Easter. Through my wife Kristine’s five....
The Sacred Messiness of Life in Community
Janna, a midwife at a local birthing center where a few of the babies in our community were born (including our little daughter, Ruby), made a sign of a cross and prayed a quick blessing over Derek and Chris...