The ProGrace Blog
I was having a conversation with a pro-choice activist about what it means to be ProGrace®. She appreciated that I wanted to meet and see if we could find common ground. We agreed on many...
Several weeks ago, a friend told me she was going to participate in a peaceful protest against abortion.
“How is that going to help?” I asked.
“We’re showing our community...
In a recent blog post, we explored the ways that asking new questions of women facing unplanned pregnancy can better the conversation between local churches and their communities.
But what about...
“I’m beginning to wonder if things can really change,” a friend told me recently, “or if I can.”
This friend is in full-time ministry and has been walking with God...
“Instead of asking, ‘What are you going to do?’ – that’s what everyone was asking me – she asked, ‘What do you need?’”
This comment from a...
“If you put shame in a petri dish it needs three things to survive: secrecy, silence and judgment. If you put shame in that same petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can’t...
Our staff heard a beautiful story last week about members from a local church blessing Lisa, a young single mom from the ProGrace program. They gave her quite a lavish gift, paying several bills...
Every January, churches across America observe Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, usually on the weekends surrounding the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. And every January I am unsettled by most of the...
Start this new year with a new way of thinking. What does it mean to be “ProGrace”?
It means aligning with God’s response to unplanned pregnancy by extending grace, in order...
The short answer is: the need for Grace.
This Advent, we’ve been thinking a lot about what it must have felt like for Mary and Joseph to suddenly find themselves in an unexpected—and...
I don’t describe myself as either pro-life or pro-choice. Those words are used by two political platforms to describe where they stand, and they have become so polarizing and limiting....