Abortion Survivors Break Their Silence by Melissa Ohden with Cindy Lambert (Focus on the Family, 2024) “There’s no such thing as abortion until birth.” I’ve heard that time and again from legislators who resist “born-alive” bills that would ensure care for children who survive attempted abortion. Melissa Ohden knows better. She survived an attempt toContinue reading “Not to be denied: abortion survivors speak out together”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
Open Book: Bonhoeffer and Muggeridge for Advent
With thanks to my local library’s interlibrary loan program, I’ve just picked up a book that will keep me occupied during Advent and probably well into January: A Testament to Freedom: the Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (ed. Kelly and Nelson, Harper San Francisco, 1995). Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor who was part ofContinue reading “Open Book: Bonhoeffer and Muggeridge for Advent”
Thanksgiving for all
I’ve seen this attributed to G.K. Chesterton, and I’m sorry I don’t know in which of his many works it appears. But no matter: here’s a Chesterton thought for Thanksgiving, with my best wishes to my readers. “You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, andContinue reading “Thanksgiving for all”
Ellen Kolb 