Worth remembering as an election looms and my mailbox overflows and the ads reach saturation points: “policy” is a means, not an end. The former lobbyist in me needs the reminder occasionally. Journalist Kathryn Jean Lopez always provides edifying reading, and she has often made the point that getting a bill passed is not theContinue reading “Life-issue public policy: a means, not an end”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
Remembering a defender of life
The celebration of All Saints and observance of All Souls are just ahead. Among those whom I’ll be remembering in prayer is an acquaintance, a Catholic pro-life journalist named Jack Kenny, who passed away a few weeks ago. I invite you to remember him in prayer as well. I wrote a memorial post over atContinue reading “Remembering a defender of life”
Emerging: Covid gets personal
Above my desk is a shelf full of go-to books, selected from the thousand or so volumes scattered throughout my house. That shelf holds my essentials: prayer books, spiritual commentaries, lives of the saints, and my current favorites among life-issue books (think Gosnell). I can pick up any of them and come across something aboutContinue reading “Emerging: Covid gets personal”
Ellen Kolb 