Spare a moment and a prayer for the political types, please and thank you. I’m one of them. Public policy is part of my vocation. Times like these, I’m tempted to wish it were otherwise. This is a plague-on-both-your-houses time. Something C.S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity captures my attitude. I feel a strong desireContinue reading “Grace in a graceless season: prayer, votes, and the real goal”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
A pro-life journey: “you know what changed my mind?…”
Consider these two tweets from @LetiAdams: I wish I could get it across to ppl just how much “abortion kills a baby” didn’t work to get me to understand the truth about abortion.…You know what changed my mind? Grace. Plus encountering Christians who didn’t shout at me about how wrong I was about everything. ThisContinue reading “A pro-life journey: “you know what changed my mind?…””
Open Book: Jacques Maritain, Theodore Roosevelt, & Allen V. Koop
The first Wednesday of each month brings #OpenBook, a blog linkup co-hosted by My Scribbler’s Heart and CatholicMom.com with a roundup of what participating bloggers have been reading lately. Theodore Rex was as good as its early chapters promised. I’m impatiently waiting for a copy of Colonel Roosevelt, volume three of this Theodore Roosevelt biography writtenContinue reading “Open Book: Jacques Maritain, Theodore Roosevelt, & Allen V. Koop”
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