“You can’t turn your back on the poor, the sick, the hungry, frightened, or desperate people seeking asylum at our border and still call yourself a pro-life Christian.” 1
Author: Staff
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I Was Born in Bad Axe, Michigan
I’m Proud to Love All Our Neighbors
As a youngster born in Hubbard Hospital, I’m always proud to know that Bad Axe has some incredible neighbors during difficult times.
Here is an amazing film that we encourage everyone to Rent/Buy and watch.
BAD AXE captures a closely-knit Asian American family living in rural Michigan during the pandemic as they fight to keep their local restaurant and American dream alive. With rising racial tensions, the family uses their voice and must unite as they reckon with backlash from a divided community, white supremacists, and intergenerational trauma from Cambodia’s “killing fields.” – Directed by David Siev
“You might not think there’s much to film in Bad Axe, Mich., a sleepy town of just over 3,000. But as the weeks of sheltering in place turned to months, Siev found himself at the center of an epic battle going on in towns across America: a philosophical clash over mask-wearing and other pandemic protocols, the Black Lives Matter movement and the impending 2020 election.” 2
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Gender Discrimination in the Catholic Church
Rules in the Catholic Church are applied differently for men and women. A father can create a child out of marriage and keep HIS job, but a woman who creates a child out of marriage GETS FIRED.
“Sarah Syring loved her job as an English teacher at a Catholic middle school in Louisville, KY — until she was fired for expecting a dearly desired child with her long-term boyfriend.
The principal was supportive at first, assuring her that her job was safe — but then staff for the Archdiocese of Louisville intervened, and Syring was quickly terminated for violating church policy. The termination was likely illegal: Male teachers at the same school have been allowed to keep their jobs after breaking the same rules.
Syring is now suing the archdiocese, saying that the church selectively enforced its rules against her while not enforcing them against male employees.
For too long, conservative “purity culture” has punished women for their sexual choices and looked the other way while men do whatever they please. But there’s nothing “pro-life” about firing a teacher and taking away the livelihood of a newborn child’s family.
Syring wants her job back, and she deserves our support. Let’s show the Archbishop of Louisville that Christians across the country are outraged by gender discrimination done in Jesus’s name!” 3
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John Pavlovitz: An Apology to My Daughter
John Pavlovitz An Amazing Note to the Author’s Daughter
“My Dear Daughter,
I’ve been thinking about you ever since the news a few days ago.
Every time I try to find the words to talk about this to you, they jumble all together, swelling up and getting stuck in my throat. Tears quickly well up in my eyes, and all I can manage is a barely audible, “I’m sorry.”” 4
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Kindness Always Makes Things Better by Ross Reck
Pixabay I came across a story by Ryan Katz and Tara Boyle posted on npr.org that dealt with Stephanie Cole’s first day on her very first job as a teenager. It was the height of the Christmas shopping rush, and she was working as a retail clerk in a busy department store in Los Angeles during the 1960s. When a woman walked up to her cash register to purchase a Christmas tree ornament, Stephanie froze—she couldn’t remember how to operate her register. She was on the verge of tears when the woman looked at her kindly and said, “It’s all right. Take your time. I’m not in a hurry.” At this point, she felt a sense of relief an knew everything was going to be okay. She hasn’t forgotten that woman’s kindness after all these years and offers the following advice: “You know, you encounter somebody who’s . . . just having a bad day and…you can tell they’re in a bad place, you can say, ‘It’s okay. I’m not in a hurry. Take your time.’ And it always makes the situation better. Always, always.”
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