From My Email:My name is Anthony Pratley, I am a Youth and Family Director at Trinity Lutheran Church in Frankfort, MI. My high school youth group has started a project to raise money for the tsunami relief efforts. We decided to sell "virtual bricks" on our website at www.rebuildinghope.org. Each brick costs $1. Our goal is to sell 1 brick for every victim of the horrible disaster.
Luckily, all of our efforts will be matched dollar for dollar by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
Could you please help spread the word? Send emails, post on blogs, forward to your contacts, or buy bricks for friends and challenge them to do the same. Thank you!
From BreakPoint; Readings about the current state of Abortion Politics
- Today's BreakPoint offer: Erika Bachiochi, ed., The Cost of 'Choice': Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (Encounter Books, 2004). In this book, the writers argue that over the last three decades, legal abortion has had harmful effects on women; socially, medically, psychologically and culturally.
- This year's March for Life in Washington, D.C., will take place on Monday, January 24, 2005. To learn more, visit the website, or call 202-543-3377.
- Erika Bachiochi," The abortion debate," Washington Times, 29 October 2004.
- Jan Wolfe," Feminist argues cost of abortion," The Heights (Boston College), 9 December 2004.
- Steven Ertelt, " Women Who Regret Their Abortions to Speak at Supreme Court,"Lifenews.com,11 January 2005.
- BreakPoint Commentary No. 041026," Human Life: It's What Matters Most."
- BreakPoint Commentary No. 041015, "
Politics First, Women Second: The Illness They Won't Talk About."
- Brian McGuire, " Abortion: A Tool of Male Oppression?" interview with Serrin Foster, National Catholic Register, 16-22 April 2000.
- Jill Stanek, "How does 'moderating pro-choice position' translate?" Worldnetdaily.com, 5 January 2005.
- Debra Rosenburg, " Anxiety Over Abortion," Newsweek, 20 December 2005.
- BreakPoint's "Culture of Life Packet" includes the Family Research Council booklet, "Building a Culture of Life: A Call to Respect Human Dignity in American Life," and a "BreakPoint This Week" CD interview with William Saunders of Family Research Council in which he discusses what citizens can do to make a difference for life. The CD also includes a speech by Dr. Robert George, "Bioethics and the Clash of Orthodoxies."
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Site Seeing:
iGrill verryyyy interesting...
InternetSafe.org: Most parents know internet pornography is a problem but they have no idea how simple it is for youngsters to access some of the vilest material out there. Our new site, www.internetsafe.org, will give parents the tools they need to not only protect their kids but also to teach them to think critically about what they see.
I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job, a flat tire made him lose an hour of work and his electric drill quit, his ancient, one ton truck refused to start. As I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving he invited me in to meet his family. As we walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands. Upon opening the door he had undergone an amazing transformation. His tanned face was wreathed in smiles and he hugged his two small children and gave his wife a kiss.
Afterward he walked me to the car. We passed the tree and my curiosity got the better of me. I asked him about what I had seen him do at the little tree. "Oh, that's my trouble tree," he replied. "I know I can't help having troubles on the job, but one thing's for sure, those troubles don't belong in the house with my wife and the children. So, I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home and ask God to take care of them. Then in the morning I pick them up again. The funny thing is," he smiled, "when I come out in the morning to pick them up, there aren't nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before." |
