A question has arisen regarding the extent to which Lutherans For Life employees or volunteers may try to influence people to vote for a certain candidate. This seems to be an area of great confusion and misinformation, but it’s actually pretty simple.
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Abortion statistics for both the United States and worldwide.
This fall edition of LifeDate focuses on “Orphan and Foster Care and the Gospel.”
Ever notice how children who are adopted sometimes look like their adoptive parents? It is amazing how frequently this happens. It helps underscore the idea that children who come into a family through adoption are just that, children, a son or a daughter, not an “adopted son” or “adopted daughter.”
A conversation about adoption may evoke a wide variety of strong feelings—a mix of happiness and joy along with pain, fear and grief. Through this format of questions and answers, Janette Clausen hopes to give insight and increase understanding of the adoption process, which joins families together forever!
At the 2012 National Lutherans For Life conference, focused on Equipping the Saints For Life, there was a special workshop offered to representatives from our Renewal For Life® congregations. Saturday workshops also offered an emphasis on Renewal in the Church.
It was a typical Saturday morning in Bryan, Texas. The streets of Bryan, and the neighboring town of College Station (home to Texas A&M University), were full of students and out-of-town visitors, getting ready for another football game and all the festivities that went along with it. But, on one busy street in Bryan, a dedicated group of students from Texas A&M were preparing for a different kind of battle: a battle For Life. In front of the Planned Parenthood clinic on East 29th Street, dozens of children, college students, young adults, and families stood in a prayerful vigil—the last voice of hope to the women about to make the toughest decision of their life. The silence was only punctuated by the sound of traffic, the occasional car horn, and the heartfelt appeals of the sidewalk counselors to the women entering the clinic, urging them to rethink their decision.
Every younger generation deserves the wisdom and experience that is most naturally mentored by an older generation. But, in this present culture, we parents and grandparents seem to resist acting our age. Isn’t this rather selfish? If we’re absent from the role of mentor, to whom are we abdicating? What is the price paid by children? Grandchildren? Children in our neighborhoods?
It has been a year since Cal and I began his last six-month journey on this earth. On June 8, 2011, Cal had a fatty tumor, (lipoma), removed from his hip. Additional tumors were found in his groin area. Exactly a week later, we got the call that the fatty tumor and the tumors in the groin were found to be melanoma—skin cancer. From there the cancer progressed.