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What Should We Do with Unwanted Pregnancies?
Most pregnancies are a cause for joy, making it easy to know what to say when you hear the announcement. But what if the person who's pregnant is unmarried, feels she's too young, too old, or has too many children already? What if this baby interrupts school, a career, or simply comes when life seems tough enough?
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A Gallup poll conducted for the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) revealed ...
Related Topics: Abortion, Abortion Recovery, forgiveness, Premarital sex
Why One Isn't the Loneliest Number
I'm not ashamed to admit it: I spend a lot of time alone. I'm a never-married 30something woman who has no children, who lives alone, and who spends most days in an office by myself. And in all my years of alone time—eating alone, driving alone, sleeping alone—I've learned a valuable lesson: Alone isn't the same as lonely.
I'll be honest, some of this truth sunk in by default as I felt ...
Related Topics: alone, Identity, Loneliness, longing, Single, Single Again
A Child Molester's Wife
"Would you like to hear the boy's statement?" my counselor asked not too long after the charges had been filed.
I said yes, and that answer changed my life.
What she read turned the charges into realities that I couldn't hide from. Realities that my husband could no longer say were "no big deal." The charges were a huge deal—two felony counts of child molestation.
The Truth Comes Out
The irrefutable ...
Related Topics: Abuse, Conflict, Manipulation, Marriage, Difficulty in
Breaking Free
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Measuring Up to Our Culture
Kyria: Why is obesity increasing in America while the culture keeps promoting ultra thinness?
Dr. Linda Mintle: We're repeatedly exposed to unrealistic cultural images that affect our thinking, so many of us give up and overeat, feeling we can't measure up no matter what we do.
Then why do we still compare ourselves?
Because we're uncertain of our identities. Comparisons ...
Related Topics: Acceptance, Beauty, Body Image
Confessions of a Christian Insomniac
Sleep and I had always been close friends.
In college, when a fire alarm emptied my dormitory during the wee hours, my roommate dragged me unresponsively out of bed and hauled me downstairs. We waited outside until firefighters granted an all clear. At breakfast, when the dining hall buzzed with excited indignation about the false alarm, I thought my friends were kidding. I remembered nothing.
As a ...
Related Topics: Attributes of God, Praise, Sleep, Worship
Isolation Nation
It was one of those rare academic statistics that caught the eye of the nation: Nearly 25 percent of Americans surveyed said they had no one in whom to confide.
The statistic was from the "Social Isolation in America" study, published in the June 2006 American Sociological Review. On average, the study found American adults have only two close friends—down from an average of three in 1985. The ...
Related Topics: Community, Connecting, Fellowship, Friendship, Loneliness, Neighbors
Does Faith Hide Marital Abuse?
Sherri (not her real name), a newlywed, was suffering from intense mental abuse that had the potential to escalate to physical abuse. When Christian friends tried to intervene, she smiled and said quietly, "I don't mind doing that for him. I love him." She ducked her head and walked away—alone.
It's difficult for Christian women to separate the demands of their husband from the demands of their ...
Related Topics: Abuse, Appearances, Confrontation, Domestic violence, False beliefs
Extending Family
"Are you watching CNN?" My friend Doug's urgent tone on the phone interrupted our family vacation. We were away from our Minneapolis home visiting my out-of-state in-laws.
"What happened?" I asked, afraid of his answer.
"The 35W bridge collapsed. Hundreds of cars are in the river."
I hung up my phone and turned on the TV. My husband and I could hardly comprehend the images of that familiar road lying ...
The Curse of the Capable
I don't want to be a bitter person. But something happened a few years ago that still irks me.
After giving birth to my third child, I came home with her from the hospital on a Wednesday. Thursday night—or rather Friday morning at 2:00 A.M.—my husband returned to the hospital with our then four-year-old son, Isaac. Earlier that day, Isaac had already been to urgent care because of difficulty ...
I Aim to Please
Want to know my secret? I have a pathological need to be liked. That might not seem like much of a secret—after all, most people want to be liked. But I'm not talking about want here; I'm talking about a never-express-an-unpopular-opinion-in-the-hopes-that-all-people-will-adore-me need to be liked. Frankly, it's a bit of a problem.
I discovered this reality through the magic of television. I ...
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