Stories from the Sidewalk: Dissecting Pro-Choice Propaganda
I remember the day the camera crew arrived on the sidewalk. There was an unusual energy in the air; we sidewalk prayer advocates knew we were being watched, and filmed. It wasn’t like they were hiding...
View ArticleLiving Faith: Spiritual gems find their way into Fargo visit
When my friend from New York came to Fargo recently with her youngest three boys on their way to Glacier National Park, it was a given our time together would be short. Road construction and rush-hour...
View ArticleLiving Faith: Grave of aborted holds 100 North Dakotans
Earlier this month, I had the chance to pray with others before a gravesite at Fargo’s Holy Cross Cemetery North that holds the bodies of 100 North Dakotans. Though tiny, they speak loudly of an...
View ArticleCupcakes for Life 2017, with Dr. Alveda King
Six years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting the niece of the honorable Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I wrote about that experience here. Having been exposed to her story as a post-abortive women who was...
View ArticleLiving Faith: Alveda King brings depth to uncle’s dream
Dr. Alveda King and Me, Cupcakes for Life 2017, Oct. 25, Shanley High School, Fargo Recently, I heard the niece of the heroic, beloved Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speak twice here, and each time, I...
View ArticleMeeting Gianna Jessen, the ‘baby who refused to die’
I’d heard her talk before on YouTube videos, Catholic radio, and through her words on Twitter. I’ve known for some time about the powerful story of how she survived a saline abortion, living against...
View ArticleReporting on the pop ‘baptism,’ knife-bearing, cursing incident
It’s time for a little update on what’s been happening on the sidewalk at our state’s only abortion facility. When I showed up there to pray with fellow sidewalk prayer advocates this past Wednesday,...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: Intoxicated ‘drifter’ speaks clearly about life
I can think of no better piece to share than this one today, as our four buses from Shanley High School get ready to depart for Washington, D.C., to take part in the 2018 March for Life to end...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: To pray or not to pray, that is the question
https://pixabay.com/en/christian-christianity-religion-1316206/ In 1994, I attended a conference led by Catholic apologist Karl Keating. Though it fed us spiritually, lunch was on our own. So, at...
View ArticleThe beauty of male-female figure skaters (and my debut on LifeSiteNews)
It’s been four years since I was struck with beauty while passing by a television airing the winter Olympics, and showing a male and female figure-skating competition. The moment left me breathless and...
View ArticleLiving Faith: Planned Parenthood, a wolf in sheep’s clothes
Lunch works this week!” I texted my friend in May 2013. Finalizing details, she mentioned her foster daughter, and concern over materials she’d gotten through a mandated educational program. “I’ll tell...
View ArticleThe preposterous claims of the anti-life movement
On Monday, I found myself in a room of 1,000 fellow Catholics who share a similar mindset. We were many, but, from what one could see, one in our pro-God, pro-family, pro-love, pro-life mentality of...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: Even in an imperfect world, each life perfect to God
https://pixabay.com/en/dad-son-walking-family-father-909510/ As he approached from across the street, I sensed another wanderer was about to give us a piece of his mind. Ignoring the crude edges in the...
View ArticleLiving Faith: Third-party reproduction violates children
The headline from the Norwalk, Conn., news story struck me: “Gay Baby Boom Part 2: A Westport couple shares their personal fertility journey.” But even more, the accompanying photo of two men holding...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: Weeping women’s tears tell tale of abortion
https://pixabay.com/en/girl-sad-crying-raining-rain-drops-690327/ Lately, I’ve noticed a new reality while praying on the sidewalk in front of our state’s only abortion facility: tears. Often, the...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: Tomb reminds us the aborted are real people
Last September, my friend Ann and I joined a group of others at Holy Cross Cemetery in North Fargo for the 4th Annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children. At that event, Susan Richard of...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: ‘It’s the way of the world,’ he said, shrugging
https://pixabay.com/en/unsure-formals-sign-adult-people-315080/ Recently, I’ve watched two fathers, each with two living children already in their lives, accompany their partners to our state’s only...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: This is how we welcome immigrants, refugees?
https://pixabay.com/en/man-woman-children-refugee-asylum-1002633/ As they made their way across the street toward our state’s only abortion facility, I noted his strong grip on the car seat that hung...
View ArticleWhat’s it all about, Alfie?
It’s an oldie, but somehow, as I sift through the long-ago memories of my past, it is accessible — the song composed for the 1966 film “Alfie,” by the same name, by songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal...
View ArticleSidewalk Stories: Mothers impact other mothers on sidewalk
https://pixabay.com/en/heart-love-romance-romantic-3363652/ When I began praying on the sidewalk at our state’s only abortion facility more regularly, I joined with others who have something in common...
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