Martin Luther King, Jr. knew about the value of unity and organization to nonviolent public witness. His book Stride Toward Freedom: the Montgomery Story is about the 1955-56 boycott of public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in an effort to break segregation. Ultimately, the boycott worked, though it took a year. Impatience and violence would have undermined theContinue reading “A battle within the battle: fighting for life, in a spirit of love”
Category Archives: Prolife
Healing, serving, thriving: Melissa Ohden on the Abortion Survivors Network
Excerpted from a post at Braided Trails. By the time Melissa Ohden wrote her book You Carried Me, she had already spent several years sharing her story publicly. That didn’t come easily to her – “I’m most comfortable behind the scenes, to be perfectly honest” – but she knew that speaking out was the only wayContinue reading “Healing, serving, thriving: Melissa Ohden on the Abortion Survivors Network”
Celebration as NH gets its first Safe Haven Baby Box
On a drizzly May day, dozens of people gathered in a fire station’s bay in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, in an atmosphere that defied the grey weather. We came for dedication, blessing, gratitude, and remembrance. The reason was a new installation in the station’s eastern wall: a Safe Haven Baby Box, designed so that an infantContinue reading “Celebration as NH gets its first Safe Haven Baby Box”
