Category: Classic Citizen
System Solution
Dr. Sharen Ford noticed a change in her newsfeeds a few years ago. As the program director of Adoption & Orphan Care at Focus on...
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First Responders, Second Chances
Today, Joseph Bradley is a doctor who treats first responders and veterans struggling with substance abuse. Three decades ago, he was a first responder himself...
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Hope, Not Handcuffs
Judge Linda Davis hasn’t only seen the toll opioids take from the bench. She’s also seen it at home—with one of her daughters. “I thought...
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A Providential Place
For Karl Benzio, 1987 marked a low point in his life. Low points, though, can also be turning points—and this one was. At the time,...
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A Big Win for Pro-Lifers and for Free Speech
Tom Glessner was getting to be a familiar face at the U.S. Supreme Court by the end of June. He’d shown up five days in...
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Justice Served
At approximately 11 a.m. on April 11, President Donald Trump signed into law a bill giving sex trafficking victims the ability to pursue damages from...
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Voice to the World
He may be the most energetic person you’ll ever meet. But Nick Vujicic, 35, has faced physical challenges few people have even considered. Born without...
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From Acts to Austin
In March 2015, Terri Ingraham drifted off to sleep in her Austin, Texas, home. With a background in event planning and a creative, beauty-loving personality,...
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Words and Deeds
As a young man, my Army chaplain father told me a true story about 672 men who perished in the middle of the night during...
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Off The Dole
On March 8, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report showing that Planned Parenthood received $1.2 billion in taxpayer funding between 2013 and 2015—about...
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A Legacy of Scandal: 100 Years of Planned Parenthood
Earlier this year, Cecile Richards stepped down from her position as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America after 12 years at its helm....
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Focal Point
In discussing the spate of natural and man-made disasters that have beset our nation over the last year—the cover story of our March issue—someone recently...
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Face-to-Face with al-Qa’ida
Checked my notes, adjusted my blazer, and took a deep breath to steady myself before entering the debriefing room. I had never interacted with a...
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Making History
After more than 17 years, David Fowler can still tell you what happened on Sept. 15, 2000. It was a Friday, and Fowler—then a Tennessee...
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A Case of Conviction
The 2018 U.S. Supreme Court docket is already shaping up to be significant, as the much anticipated free-speech and -religion case known as Masterpiece Cakeshop v....
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What is Sex For?
So many of the pressing social issues of our day revolve around sex. Which begs the question: Why do we have sex? Why does it...
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The High Cost of Fatherlessness
In his book The Good Dad (Zondervan, 2014), Focus on the Family President Jim Daly describes standing on his high school football field on Dad’s Night. The announcer...
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What Were They Smoking?
On New Years’ Day in California, people were celebrating. Some people, anyway. That’s the day recreational marijuana usage officially became legal in the state—and businesses...
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Deep Web, Deeper Faith
When Emily Kennedy was growing up in northern California, adults had plenty to say about her. A bull in a china shop. Strong-willed. Unwavering determination...
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A Good Break
The ministry Prison Fellowship works every day to help people who are—or were—in prison. But sometimes it helps to have a special time on the...
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The Billy Graham of Generation Z?
Hannah Stephens was 17 and in trouble with her parents. She had gotten caught stealing their tablet computer in order to chat with strangers online...
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Without Hesitation
With her long strawberry blonde hair, white cable-knit sweater and pearl necklace, Emily Gause is the picture of conservative professionalism. When asked about the subject...
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Why is Down Syndrome Disappearing?
According to the Charlotte Lozier Institute—a pro-life think tank in Washington, D.C.—the number of people living with Down syndrome in the United States has declined...
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