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  • … there are the DeJongs. They pour concrete with each other. Its done much more, daughter Maggie says, than cement their … work, running the wheelbarrows,” says her dad, Todd. “Its not easy. But Maggie had a good attitude, never a complaint. …
  • … gets pregnant, we’re done — you’re gone.” That was Eva’s consuming thought when she found out she was pregnant at age 16. “My initial instinct was to hide it from my family,” she says. She remembered a small building … enrolled at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado in 2016, she had friends, extracurricular activities, a job — …
  • Its breakfast time at Grant Park Christian Academy. Children … Tampa, Florida. Some scamper in alone, some with a friend. Not a few are escorted more quietly by their moms — mostly … the kitchen. On the trays this morning are Frosted Flakes, apple slices, and juice boxes. The children sweep them up and …
  • … Lydia Booth happily roams her family’s small Braxton, Mississippi, farm with a little pack of … Arlo holds first place in Lydia’s heart, but she is not above spending summer days tracking down other lizards of … ones bite me.” You let them … “I don’t know,” she shrugs. “It feels good, for some reason. Their teeth … its like a …
  • … professor when an NPR news report changed her life. It was January 22, 1973. And while Peggy had encountered the … unexpected pregnancy, Anne had been abandoned by the baby’s father but was unwilling to abort her unborn child. Unless … 1.5 million clients each year. Peggy shifted roles in 2016 to lead Heartbeat’s board, and she remains active in the …
  • … the family returned to their borrowed truck, they found it sagging over a flat tire. With a sigh, they began digging … their Oregon property.   G ood families, more often than not, seem to spring from, well … good families, and Jessica … Jessica remembers, “and she encouraged our faith, too. She’s why I’m a Christian.” Jessica was still a young girl when …
  • … L ike most of us, Jean Marie Davis knows enough not to pick up hitchhikers. Unlike some of us, she knows a … the time.” If the young woman was startled at her driver’s deduction, at least she didn’t deny it. “I smoke crack,” she confessed. “I used to do crystal …
  • … In fact, that commitment almost ended my career before it began. I had wanted to be a midwife since I was in my late … on the grounds that we conflicted with the university’s Equal Opportunities Policy. (I don’t think the university … unmotivated to continue studying. I’d sit in the back and not participate in what was going on. My grades went down. …
  • … Justice Amy Coney Barrett's recent confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court is truly … when a justice believes her role is to apply the law as it is written, rather than as she would like it to be … to look at the Supreme Court bench and remember we're not alone. In part because of our religious convictions, we …
  • … personalized, at-home learning for their children. Smith’s view of education took a profound turn in 1981, when he … in 1981, we had two children in private school and were not satisfied with the results. We attended a homeschool … on the radio, not knowing whether we’d ever do it or not. But out of that, we said, “Let’s give this a try.” …