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Living Faith: Former atheist articulates how she came to see the human...
On Monday, I had lunch with Jennifer Fulwiler, an atheist convert to Christianity, and a group of other Christians who’d come to hear her midday presentation. Author of the popular Christian blog...
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Advocating for life: social justice on steroids
As I prepare to talk to a social-justice group in Canada next week, I have been pondering how my pro-life advocacy work and social justice merge. Some of my pro-life friends protesting the visit of...
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Roxi’s Reviews: Abby Johnson’s ‘The Walls Are Talking’
“I was wholeheartedly devoted to an industry that thrives on the premise that life is cheap.” – Abby Johnson, author of The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Workers Tell Their Stories I first met...
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Feathers in my cap: Praise for ‘Redeemed by Grace’
I’m still catching up with myself from an intense last couple weeks, which included college tours with my daughter and a final decision for her future which was a Very Big Deal. On the way to one of...
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Faith Conversations: Mom, daughter form families through Christian adoption...
FARGO — No finely tuned strategy came into play at its beginnings. Rather, a need became apparent during a local mother’s mission trip to Mexico, and with her heart swelling at the sight of children...
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Tea party on the sidewalk – and a ‘save’
My sidewalk prayer ministry has taken a backseat of late to the many May activities that have kept this mama family-bound. Since family is my first vocation, this is not a sacrifice, but I have missed...
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Stories from the Sidewalk: What if we could talk to them?
Normally, I don’t turn my video camera on at the sidewalk. It seems invasive to me. I have taken photos there before, to document what is going on there on a given day, to report back to those who are...
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Looking at the sidewalk sideways
Oh boy. Well, I’m going to tell it as plainly as possible, including the facts as others have purported them, and also as I experienced them. Because this has gotten a little wild. Let me start at the...
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Stories from the sidewalk: How I got my guts
No one grows up wanting to be an abortion worker, I’ve heard it said. And just as true, perhaps, is that no one grows up aspiring to someday dedicate a portion of their life to protesting something...
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From sea to shining sea: Biking through Fargo for a cause
Yesterday morning, I received an email notifying me that this guy would be biking through Fargo, having dipped his tires into one ocean, with his sights set on eventually dipping them into the other...
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Stories from the sidewalk: Wily as wasps
I’d started out thinking the apt comparison would be bumble bees. They wear the same type of clothing — black and yellow vests — and at times, they are certainly busy about the work at hand. But I soon...
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An open letter to the Red River Women’s Clinic staff
Nick, a sidewalk prayer advocate, shares hope this past Wednesday on the day abortions happen Downtown Fargo at the Red River Women’s Clinic. To the staff of the Red River Women’s Clinic: Inspired by a...
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Humanae Vitae: Living with no regrets
Note: Today marks the 48th anniversary of the life-changing document, “Humanae Vitae,” a true gift to the Church. The following is my contribution to a one-day media event by the Couple to Couple...
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Find me mingling with monks, traveling with teens
By the time this posts, I’ll be packed and sporting this shirt, along with a group of youth and other adult guides, heading East. For months, my middle girl has been getting ready for her journey to...
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Stories from the sidewalk: The broken butterfly
My plan this week had been to write about beauty, the second of the transcendentals I yearn to explore. But then another story emerged. And while it does involve beauty, it’s a broken beauty — beauty...
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Stories from the sidewalk: Pulled into the vortex of no return
If my friend “A” hadn’t nudged me, I might have missed the opportunity. But she did gently elbow me, and I followed her eyes to the sidewalk across the street from where we stood, as we do most weeks...
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Stories from the sidewalk (from Carmel): ‘Pray for us sinners…’
I’ll admit it: I was torn. I’d been given an opportunity to travel with a group of fellow faith seekers to a place that has become precious to me, a sacred space of refuge. How could I refuse? And yet,...
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Speaking in a barn –‘discovering mercy’
By the time you read this, assuming you’re reading on Friday morning, I’ll be heading out on foot with a group of 8th graders on a pilgrimage across town — over 11 miles in all — to spread the Good...
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Round Hill: The gas station of grace
I’ve had some of my friends worried this week. I write this post for them as much as anyone. They were concerned after seeing some public writings about me — on social media and in the paper. Because...
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Stories from the sidewalk: Hearts, sunshine and rainbows at ‘the door of hell’
Every year during 40 Days for Life, supporters of our state’s local abortion facility here in Fargo get together in the quiet of night — or some such time when chances of detractors showing up are...
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