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A couple of months ago, several Murchisons rented the DVD of Children of Men, the thennew Alfonso Cuarón movie. At home, in front of our own television set, we watched soberly. I may have watched more soberly, not to say more skeptically, than the others. That would be because I... Read More →

Prolife leaders from across the country gathered this week to discuss how faithbased ministries are helping to cultivate a society that promotes human dignity and how others can advance the cause. The Leading with Love Conference at The Catholic University of America (CUA) in... Read More →

  [John Mize is CEO of Americans United for Life. The following originally appeared August 21, 2025, at National Review Online; reprinted with permission.] In a matter of minutes, anyone can order abortion drugs online and have them shipped to states with even the most... Read More →

  [Clarke D. Forsythe is senior counsel at Americans United for Life. The following article was originally published on September 22, 2025, by National Review Online. Copyright 2025 by National Review. Reprinted by permission.] Proposals to prosecute women for abortion are a... Read More →

  [This interview is reprinted, with permission, from Verily Magazine’s Creativity Issue, Fall 2024.(verilymag.com)] _____________________________________________________________________________________ These days, it’s rare for a day to go by without the topic of abortion... Read More →

  When our sons were diagnosed with autism, I knew life would change for my husband and me—but not in the ways most people imagine. Yes, there were challenges: sleepless nights, therapies, learning new ways to communicate, and adapting our world to theirs. But there were... Read More →

  I recently made a trip to Tabora, Tanzania, a place most people I know have probably never heard of let alone visited. Certainly, I would not have heard of it but for a connection with the Anglican bishop there, who had repeatedly invited me to visit his diocese. The trip... Read More →

  Fifteen years ago, someone in the United States would wear a garment seven to ten times before getting rid of it  Now it’s worn only two or three times. Roughly 11.3 million tons of discarded clothing winds up in U.S. landfills annually; about 60 percent of it made of... Read More →

  “Leading with Love,” a conference on pregnancy crisis centers and concrete assistance to new mothers – especially those in crisis pregnancies – took place October 8 at The Catholic University of America, Washington. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Human Life... Read More →

The setting was the East Village in the mid-1990s, and we were just two of the many writers you could have conked if you threw a rock in any direction. We had washed out of the arts and culture scene of the previous decade, and although we didn’t know each other then, we were... Read More →