by Bryan Baise The Deseret News has a write up about recent Pew Research findings about the religious affiliations of gay and lesbians in America. Polling about 1,200 self-identified adults, they found that about half (48%) have no religious affiliation whatsoever, and those who do attend do not see church as an integral part of…
By Courtney Reissig [Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on CBMW about five years ago. It was written long before Courtney Reissig (then Courtney Tarter) was married or had children, but we felt that because of it’s reception back then and because she is working on expanding this article into a book, it was a…
By: Raymond Johnson I hated it. Everyday she replied with the same three-word answer. It wasn’t derogatory or offensive, but it bothered me greatly. I mean really, did she always have to reply with the same phrase? Did she always have to give the same response? Acting as if I wasn’t really asking a question….
by Bryan Baise Amanda Marcotte of Slate has written a piece on the phenomenon known as “the turnaways”. The turnaways are women that abortion clinics have turned away and denied service because they were too far along in their pregnancy. She notes that a recent comparison of turnaways with women who fell right under the…
By Melissa McDonald I have a two year old and a one year old. I can get tired just thinking about it. But mostly I’m tired because they need me from early in the morning until they lay down at night (and often after they lay down). It’s tempting to make all my decisions based…
By Matt Capps How God Changed My Heart Toward Adoption When I was younger I never envisioned myself as an adoptive father. Adoption was alien to me as a familial concept, and the reality of orphans was nothing more than an abstract category in my mind. I assume that all men at some point in…
