You helped Maurice Speak Life for His Baby
Even when Shannon didn't want to hear it!Maurice* threw another rock at the icy lake"”hoping it would break through this time. No matter how big the rock was, or how far he threw, all he managed to do was scratch the surface. In a lot of ways, his progress here felt...
Advent Week Three: An Unexpected Pregnancy. . . Unexpected Joy!
"Rejoice always,<span class="crossreference" data-link="(A)" data-cr="#cen-NIV-29638A"> pray continually,<span class="crossreference" data-link="(B)" data-cr="#cen-NIV-29639B"> give thanks in all circumstances;<span...
Dred Scott and Abortion: Different Eras, Different Circumstances, Same Sin
The year was 1976. I was sitting in high school history class at the all-boys Catholic high school I attended in Toledo, Ohio. On most days, I may have been daydreaming about playing football. But the lesson on this particular day was the Supreme Court's Dred...
Care Net’s Men’s Summit, New Book Helps Men Find Healing from Abortion
For men, the road to post-abortion healing is often lonely, difficult, and silent. One of the keys to finding wholeness, according to Jill Marquis, Care Net's Director of Abortion Care and Recovery, is having a place to tell your story and hear from others who have...
Advent Week Two: The Call to Love
"The multitude of your sacrifices"” what are they to me?" says the Lord. "I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls<span class="crossreference" data-link="(C)"...
Why the Pro-Life Movement Must be Pro Abundant Life
For several years, Care Net has transformed our mission and vision to reflect what we call a Pro Abundant Life perspective. This perspective is based on John 10:10 where Jesus said he came not just to give us life, but rather abundant life"”both physical (temporal)...
Advent Week One: When We Hope, We Watch!
"Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is. It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. Watch therefore, for you do not know when the...
Tennessee’s Human Life Protection Act Makes Abortion Pill Illegal
The Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade in June had momentous implications on a national and state level. In Tennessee, the decision set in motion a law that restricts nearly all abortions and declares that life begins at the moment of conception. In a recent...
LifeChat: 5 Common Questions about the Pro Abundant Life Movement (Video)
Roland Warren, President and CEO of Care Net, and Vincent DiCaro, Chief Outreach Officer, sat down to discuss Care Net's Pro Abundant Life mission and vision. Back in 2013, Care Net started a strategic process of planning out the organizational direction"”and the idea...
Embracing Grace: Amy Ford Shares A Powerful ‘Pro-Love’ Message
Amy Ford was faced with an unplanned pregnancy at 19-years old. Raised in a Christian family, she attended church on a regular basis, but did not see it as a place to find grace, comfort, or help. Full of fear and imagining worst-case scenarios, she and her boyfriend...