Living Faith: Are NDSU and Planned Parenthood BFFs?
In seventh-grade science class, we sealed our friendship. As the teacher discussed the periodic table of elements, I quickly glanced at the note from my closest comrade, smiling at the ending: “Your...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: Girl I knew as a blonde baby aborts her baby
https://pixabay.com/photos/mothers-child-mummy-lovely-family-3389671/ I was a young mother, all those years ago, there in the pool with my infant daughter for a mother-child swimming class. I wanted...
View ArticleFaith Conversations: Fargo pregnancy resource center celebrates 35 years with...
Cybil Johnson (left) is a counselor and Angela Wambach is the executive director at Women’s Care Center located at 103 N.University Drive in Fargo. David Samson / The Forum FARGO — A woman laden with...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: Sidewalk chalk a success, despite news report
When two new enthusiastic prayer advocates started coming to the sidewalk at our state’s only abortion facility this past summer with a bucket of colorful chalk to write messages of hope, I saw the...
View ArticleFaith Conversations: Hospice house now in the works for south Fargo to fill...
Linda Morris (left) with her mother, Shirley Feeney. Special to The Forum BOISE, Idaho — Through every trial and triumph in her life, Linda Morris says her mother, Shirley Feeney, poured out pure,...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: Hadro’s shot of encouragement welcomed
Roxane Salonen and EWTN’s “Prolife Weekly” Catherine Hadro in Fargo, September 2019 When I heard that Catherine Hadro, host of Eternal World Television Network’s (EWTN) “Pro-life Weekly,” would be...
View ArticleLiving Faith: Words of life, not death, will win presidency
Since the last presidential election, I’ve learned how quickly a name can trigger. Simply writing “Trump” can unleash the proverbial gates of hell. This column likely will prove this. Even in...
View ArticleErasing Motherhood: Dangers of the surrogacy ‘solution’
This Mother’s Day, I jumped into a Facebook conversation in which I quickly found myself an outsider. It was a lamentation of sorts from women who’ve experienced infertility, and even more, the...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: We stand as witnesses to snapshots of sadness
The tiny girl slipped away momentarily from her father, who stood in an area of the sidewalk we call “the trap.” It’s an indented section that many people who come seeking abortion in downtown Fargo...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: Sidewalk ministry shifts as pandemic swirls
By the time this reaches you, we will be a good two months into living alongside the COVID-19 epidemic that has gripped our world. Like every sphere of society, the sidewalk at our state’s only...
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