Christina M | December 30, 2003
Today my husband and I celebrate our first anniversary. As I think back on the span of our relationship, I remember a conversation I had before Joel and I married. This friend (who is very much in love with his wife) could not understand how I could be contemplating marrying someone I had not slept […]
Christina M | December 26, 2003
To most of us, Advent (or the “Christmas Season” as it’s commonly known to those who don’t celebrate liturgical seasons) is a time of giving. As we fly around town buying gifts to give and foods to prepare, we can’t miss the Salvation Army bell ringers, or the donation drop off spots for winter coats. […]
Christina M | December 10, 2003
It’s a cold winter day, and tiny snowflakes dust through the air. My children stand at the door trying to decide whether or not to wear coats. It isn’t that they like being cold, but they are victims of unreasonable academic responses to school violence. We live in the small town of Moses Lake, where […]
Christina M | December 4, 2003
What has the politically correct “right to die” movement to do with sexual predation? Nothing, one might think; one would be wrong. Now that society has increasingly accepted the idea that murder is right as long as the victim wanted to be murdered, killing is being not merely tolerated but sanctioned for a whole lot […]