Right-to-Lifers Are Hypocrites -- And Here's Why
A caveat: I don't include nuns in this formulation, simply because "right-to-life" has come to mean the anti-abortion movement exclusively. Nuns have the ethical and spiritual integrity to be...
View ArticleLive a Life That Matters
When I watched the sunrise during my morning jog, I realized something. A smile came to my face because I realized that I'm alive, healthy and it has officially been ten years since my near fatal car...
View ArticleFather's Quest To Walk His Daughter Down The Aisle Will Leave You In Tears
By Stefania Sainato for Bridal Guide The emotional pinnacle of any wedding is the bride's walk down the aisle, and parent spotlight dances are a close second. Many of us take these special moments with...
View ArticleOvercoming Evil
Nelba Márquez-Greene is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has spent her life helping others. In December 2012 she was the coordinator of a youth and adolescent outpatient psychiatric clinic...
View ArticleClosing the 'Justice Gap'
Demand for civil legal aid continues to outstrip supply. Among attorneys and others in the field, this is known as the "justice gap." It's clear that we will never close this gap unless our federal and...
View ArticleMeet the 25-Year-Old Powerhouse Behind the Malala Fund
Life changed for Shiza Shahid on the day her close friend Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan while traveling home from school. Shahid had grown up with progressive parents in...
View ArticleAbuse Allegations Still Plague Religious Homes for Troubled Teens
While reporting recently on abuse allegations at a home for troubled teens, I realized that the article I was writing had been written before. Sure, nobody had written about the Anchor Home for Boys,...
View ArticleSuper Typhoon Neoguri, Gaza Strikes And Close Encounters With Bulls: Week In...
Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this...
View ArticleDetermination Defined: The Carmen Rodriguez Story
Behind every remarkable woman is a unique life story that has yet to be told. Though her knees may buckle in the face of extreme hardship, she develops strength to rise up and continue excelling....
View ArticleThe Power to Create Initiative, Join the Party!
We have the potential to do so much better and even create enjoyable lives for everybody. This is a believe I share with many others. But, we should not be blind to things that are happening around us,...
View ArticleCentral American Minors Seek Refuge in the US: A Crisis of Children as...
Children have been all over the news, and for the wrong reasons. Three missing Israeli teens were found dead in the occupied West Bank, sparking the reprisal killing of a Palestinian boy who was burned...
View ArticleHow We Are Awesome: Jamson S. Lwebuga Mukasa
Part of a new series at Find Create Joy, profiling awesome people. My parents, Jamson and Katherine Lwebuga Mukasa, when I was a kid. "Get me an ambulance, get me out of here." It was about 2 in the...
View ArticleA Not-So-Subtle Meditation on Sugar
As people streamed out of the Kara Walker installation "A Subtlety" on a recent Sunday afternoon to buy an ice cream cone from one of the trucks idling outside the old Domino Sugar Factory on the...
View ArticleShould All Gay and Bisexual Men Take PrEP?
Around 11:30 a.m. on July 11, my friend Tony tagged me in a Facebook post that shared an article published that day by The Week magazine. The title is alarming: "WHO says all gay men should take...
View ArticleOn Israel-Palestine, Restoring Human Worth Is a First Step to Peace
The gunfire around us makes it hard to hear. But the human voice is different from other sounds. It can be heard over noises that bury everything else. Even when it's not shouting. Even when it's just...
View ArticleFair Play for The Beautiful Game
As the 2014 World Cup draws to a close, now is the time to enter an era of good governance of the world's most popular sport. That means FIFA, football's governing body, must change to ensure this...
View ArticleDad Claims Kingdom So 7-Year-Old Can Be Real Princess
This guy is taking "Daddy's little princess" a bit too literally. Jeremiah Heaton, a father of three from from Abingdon, Virginia, has claimed a patch of land between Egypt and Sudan as his "kingdom"...
View Article#JadaCounterPose Social Media Responsibility
The recent events that have taken place, involving 16-year-old Houston teen Jada, reemphasizes the need for social growth. After being drugged, undressed and raped, while attending a friend's party,...
View ArticleMalala Yousafzai Visits Nigeria, Pledges To Help Free Kidnapped Schoolgirls
ABUJA, July 14 (Reuters) - Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, pledged while on a trip to Nigeria to...
View ArticleAmelia Rose Earhart Just Finished Her Namesake's Flight Around The World
Amelia Rose Earhart has completed the journey her famous aviator namesake tragically failed to finish in 1937. On Friday, the 31-year-old was greeted by friends, family and fans as she landed her...
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