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  • Pro-Life series: Proclaiming Good News to the Poor

    This is the 7 th post in our "What Being Pro-Life Means to Me" series! What does being pro-life mean to you? Over this fall, we'll hear various writers respond to that question. Learn more and...
    October 9, 2015
  • The Blanket Exercise- Learning to Hear a Different Story

    I have participated in the Blanket Exercise several times and each time I have heard people, of all backgrounds, say “I never knew. Nobody ever told me this.” How we tell the story matters and the Blanket Exercise gives us the opportunity to learn a more complete story.
    October 7, 2015
  • Pro-Life series: Welcoming Refugees

    Refugees are in the news these days, and Christians are responding. We hear about the crisis and we want to help. Almost every day I'm asked by people who know I work with refugees, "When will the...
    October 5, 2015
  • What Being Pro-Life Means to Me- Andy Hanson

    We can’t be pro-life if we don’t know what being pro-life means. God, as the creator of all life, is decidedly pro-life. The LORD was deliberate in how he created life and gave special status to humanity.
    September 21, 2015
  • Point-counterpoint: Don't Defund Planned Parenthood

    The CRCNA is resolutely pro-life, which includes opposing the practice of abortion. Pro-life people are not in agreement over whether defunding Planned Parenthood is the answer. Will defunding this organization actually reduce abortions?
    September 18, 2015
  • Point-counterpoint: Defund Planned Parenthood

    At the OSJ, we are hearing both arguments for and against defunding Planned Parenthood recently. Pro-life people are not in agreement over whether defunding it is the answer. So we are hosting a point-counterpoint set of articles--one CRC member writing for defunding the organization, and another writing against defunding it.
    September 14, 2015
  • Loving our Enemies on 9/11

    On 9/11 the West was suddenly confronted with the reality of Islamic extremism in the form of Al-Qaeda and the ideology of Osama Bin Laden. We all woke up to the dangers of fundamentalism. This was...
    September 11, 2015
  • Racial Justice in the Reading Classroom

    After noticing that some of the books we grew up reading were less than inclusive and made for attitudes about our neighbors that had to be unlearned, we started wondering...how do parents and...
    September 10, 2015