Click here for more articles on adoption. On February 7th and 8th, my family and I had the great privilege to address our county’s Board of Supervisors and a press conference to share our experience adopting our daughter through the Safely Surrendered Baby Law signed January, 2006 to proclaim February, as a month of awareness […]
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From the very beginning, the church has always sought to put 1 John 3:18 into action, “My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.” Here is an enlightening quote from the Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity, “The life and circumstances of children depended on their parents
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The Bible is replete with the dark realities of sin and the effects of the Fall. The creation of God that was once naturally obedient to the dominion of Adam would now withhold its fruit, and exact pain and misery in return for it (Gen. 3:17-19); childbirth would now be accompanied by great pain (3:16),
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“Our most proper fruits are the moral virtues, because in every direction they are in our power.” Here are eleven moral virtues as summarized by Dante and as presented in Dr. Anthony Esolen’s wonderful translation of the Inferno from Dante’s Comedia (page 405, Appendix E): 1) Courage: “[W]eapon and rein to control rashness and timidity
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Jesus said to him, ‘No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.’ – Luke 9:62 I defy the Pope and all his laws. . . . If God spare my life ere many years, I will cause a boy that driveth the plow, shall
It is said that the ancient Greek maxim “know thyself” (Gk. γνῶθι σεαυτόν, Lt. temet nosce) was once inscribed in what is now the ruins of the forecourt of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. From Aeschylus, to Socrates, to Plato, and even to the Wachowski brothers’ The Matrix, this ancient aphorism at the very
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Thomas Goodwin, a Puritan born in 1600 who took over the pulpit of Richard Sibbes, another Puritan commonly and affectionately known as “the heavenly Doctor,” penned a list of eight “remedies” for the Christian to employ in the daily battle against fruitlessness. They are every bit as relevant, practical, and applicable today as they were
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It is commonplace to hear in day-to-day discussions between regular people the retort, “Well, that is your truth. That is not my truth.” It is the current zeitgeist: the spirit of this age. This seems to be the answer given when a position is either weakly held or there is perceived threat of refutation to
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On Saturday, January 18th, 2020, “some 4,000 community members counted by the number of stickers handed out, took to the streets of Bakersfield in the event’s third year to, as organizers said, ‘celebrate the power of diverse women’”.1 The Kern County Women’s March website states, “Our mission is to bring attention to the struggles of marginalized communities
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The following is a list of resources mentioned in the Fight Against Abortion episode, and other resources added. While these are recommended/mentioned, and some contain views held by Saints Edified in part or in whole, they do not necessarily reflect the views of Saints Edified, nor is their being listed here to be construed necessarily
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