Category: Classic Citizen
Strong Families, Strong Citizens
How do intact families and stable homes directly contribute to the making of good citizens? Is there a direct correlation? If so, how do you...
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Broken or Real?
Families are like cars—we climb into them at birth, and we count on them to carry us a long way down the road. But some...
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Focusing on the Family for 40 Years
Do you know of a couple whose marriage is facing a crisis? Are you looking for biblically centered parenting tools to raise your children? Are...
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Clinically Reborn
Tracy Frank, the 59-year-old executive director of Hope Pregnancy Centers (HPC) of Brazos Valley, Texas, walked through the rooms of her organization’s newest piece of...
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Changing The Game
HOUSTON—On this bright Sunday in February, history is being made. A few miles away, some 72,000 people decked out in jerseys and waving big foam...
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Close to Home
For Nita Belles, dealing with human trafficking started as a class project while she worked on a master’s degree about 15 years ago. What she learned in her...
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Peace On The Inside
The morning began like any other as I readied myself for another day at the busy law firm in Norfolk Va., where I worked as...
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Spotting the Signs of Trafficking
Too often, sex traffickers are able to keep their victims in the web of exploitation because sex trafficking can be hard to identify. But there...
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Meat is for the Mature
There’s an evil in our midst: Selling children for sex. For years, we’ve known about this—but generally only thought it takes place in other countries....
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Emily Kennedy was in Junior high when she heard about human trafficking for the first time through a youth leader at her church in the...
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The Power of Your Platform
There’s been a lot of anger in the airwaves lately. And it seems to center largely around two words: Fake news. What is fake news?...
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Weed Killers
On Election Night last November, much of the country went to pot. Voters in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada passed proposals to legalize recreational marijuana,...
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A Last Chance At Life
At first glance, Jordan McLinn of Indianapolis appears to be a healthy, vibrant seven-year-old boy. In this case, however, looks are deceiving. Watch him interact...
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Can A Baby Have Three Biological Parents?
One of the most consequential and concerning aspects of the way our culture has redefined the word “family” concerns the ways we reproduce. Unfortunately, few...
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Media Malpractice
If it hadn’t been for a committed group of bloggers, new media journalists, pro-life activists and Twitter users, the Kermit Gosnell trial very likely would...
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Passing on Principles
Less than two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court redefined marriage to be the union of any two people—not just a husband and wife. This...
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Suffer the Children
You may notice something a little unusual as you flip through this edition of Citizen: A warning label on the two stories in the cover package advising...
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Altered States
It’s safe to say most people were surprised by the outcome of November’s federal elections. But the surprises didn’t stop there. At the state level,...
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Miracle on 22nd Street
Take a drive through Toledo, Ohio, a few minutes past downtown to one of the city’s grittier sec- tions, a tangle of streets marked by...
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Immigration, the United Nations and the New Globalism
According to the U.S. State Department, 99 percent of the 13,210 Syrian refugees admitted to the U.S. in FY 2016 were Muslim, while only 0.5...
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Citizenship, Faith and Patriotism
Last August, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick touched off a firestorm of debate when he defended his decision to “take a knee” on the football...
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