The ProGrace Blog
“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...
If you haven’t yet watched this two-minute clip of Kevin Durant’s acceptance speech after being named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player, you need to.
“You had my brother when...
I recently heard Condoleezza Rice speak at a University event. Even though she grew up as an African-American girl in segregated Alabama, her parents had the audacity to tell her that one day, she...
As I approached the train station, a man waved me down. He wanted to know if he could give me two dollars for the train fare so I could swipe my card and let him through the gates, otherwise he...
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....