by Ardee Coolidge | Aug 16, 2016 | Abundant Life Blog
Zika. What’s the big deal? After all, mosquito-born illnesses aren’t new. Malaria and West Nile virus have been around for decades. Zika’s effect on adults is relatively mild. One in five adults infected with Zika won’t even exhibit symptoms....
by Ashley Noelle | Aug 11, 2016 | Abundant Life Blog
Society likes to think they are pro-woman, but from the wage gap to cultural stigmas, I think more and more we are realizing that’s not necessarily true. However, pregnancy resource centers often strive to fight this stigma by truly empowering women.This month,...
by Ardee Coolidge | Aug 9, 2016 | Abundant Life Blog
Some have argued that churches need to get out of the abortion debate. It is too divisive and involves too personal of a decision. However, new polling data from the Barna Group shows that churchgoers want more conversations about abortion — as well as marriage...
by Roland C Warren | Aug 4, 2016 | Abundant Life Blog
I weighed in on the Black Lives Matters movement for two reasons. First, I was inspired by the fact that Martin Luther King (and others) fought for and died for racial equality, without dismissing black men, like me, as husbands and fathers in families and...
by Ardee Coolidge | Jul 28, 2016 | Abundant Life Blog
Joylene loved Tom. They had been together for what seemed like ages and it looked like they would finally be getting married before long. Things were going smoothly until she realized that she had forgotten to take several of her birth control pills. She panicked. She...