Cohabitation was never up for discussion as my husband and I dated long-distance for two-and-a-half years before we exchanged nuptials.
Cohabitating on faith
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Abortion: black and white issue?
A fair piece on abortion? Believe it or not, it can be done. I was pleasantly surprised by the ground covered in Saturday’s front-page article on anti-abortion groups courting blacks in The New York Times. This isn’t necessarily a new phenomenon, but it has been in the news lately because of 80 billboards appearing in Georgia (right).
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Anthem wars
We’re certainly getting our fill of “The Star Spangled Banner” from the Winter Games, but a private college in Indiana will soon begin playing the National Anthem before sporting events for the first time.
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Youth for Allah?
O Canada. Thanks to the Winter Games, I know more about the maple leaf country than I ever did before. Who knew, for instance, that Winnipeg is just one state and a border west of my house? On occasion, it’s fun to look at Canadian coverage of issues that pop up from time to time in the U.S. For instance, take a look at this Vancouver Sun article about how a Winnipeg politician said no federal money should go to a Christian group called Youth For Christ.
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A Faithful Olympics
I’ve spent a good portion of my morning “studying” for a later Olympics party where our curling, half-pipe, and figure skating knowledge will be tested. Sadly, I’m confident that I am woefully unprepared.
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Want to reproduce? Check your DNA
You can make fun of me, but I do, on occasion, watch Private Practice, where attractive doctors magically fix people and cheesy romance abounds. Compared to its sister show Grey’s Anatomy, it appears to be one of the only prime time television shows that consistently deals with serious medical ethics. In one recent show, for example, a Catholic doctor’s 15-year-old daughter gets pregnant. (Spoiler alert: the doctor wants her to have an abortion, but the girl chooses to keep it). Writers use such ethical scenarios for television drama, but people are faced with these kinds of decisions more often than we might think.
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Underwhelming coverage in Haiti
It probably either feels like “eternity” or “just yesterday” when we first read reports of Haiti’s devastating earthquake that has left over 200,000 people dead.
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Awe struck? Share it.
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Missing Jenny Sanford's faith?
I still have my dried, rotting wedding bouquet in my house that I’m almost ready to part with, but after watching Kate Gosselin, South Carolina First Lady Jenny Sanford, and other marriages unravel last summer, I feel the need to cling to anything that symbolizes my recent marriage.
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