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”
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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”
John Kelly, RIP: “We win when we show up.”
Originally posted on Braided Trails. John Kelly, a warrior in defense of the dignity of human life, died on November 14. He was an advocate for disability rights, and flowing naturally from that, he was against assisted suicide. He came to Concord more than a decade ago to say so to a legislative committee. IContinue reading “John Kelly, RIP: “We win when we show up.””
Ellen Kolb 