by afladmin | Jun 25, 2018 | End of Life
Most who read this will know that 2-year-old Alfie Evans, who suffered from a mysterious neuro-degenerative disease, died last week, the UK Supreme Court having ordered life support be removed and, despite the desires of Alfie’s parents, forbidding him to receive...
by afladmin | Jun 18, 2018 | After Abortion Care
If I’d only known then what I know now. How many of us have said that? Father’s Day has such a different meaning to me now at 60 than it did at 20. In 1975 my then fiancé was in college and unexpectedly became pregnant. We didn’t know what to do. I looked up to my...
by afladmin | Jun 14, 2018 | After Abortion Care
Each week AFL posts an Anglicans in Action video, which gives practical suggestions, resources, and ideas for life-ministry. This week’s focus is on abortion healing resources. You can see all the Anglicans in Action videos on our YouTube Channel. This week’s action...
by afladmin | Jun 11, 2018 | AFL Publications
Each month we will offer a list of action ideas so you can defend, honor, and celebrate Life in your churches and communities on our Take Action page. This month, we are looking at fatherhood. Fatherhood is a role of incredible importance, and studies are unanimous...
by afladmin | Jun 7, 2018 | End of Life
When we hear discussions about the sanctity of life, it’s natural to begin by thinking about the abortion epidemic, unplanned pregnancies, and preborn babies. Often, we forget that caring for the vulnerable among us includes caring for those entering the later stages...
by afladmin | Jun 5, 2018 | Abstinence
I have been leading student ministry for five years now. Freshman year of college, a friend invited me to attend a weekly youth group in our community to see if I would be interested in volunteering. To be completely honest, I never thought that I’d stick with it; I...
by afladmin | May 31, 2018 | AFL Publications
It’s June – which means Summer is almost officially here! For the Anglicans for Life office in Pittsburgh, summer means a few things: it gives us time to prepare and begin projects that we pray will give life ministry a new, fresh momentum in the fall and personally,...
by afladmin | May 31, 2018 | Assisted Reproductive Technology, Fertility, Pregnancy
Ed. Note: Anglicans For Life seeks to help ordained and lay leaders provide a pastoral response to people facing difficult life decisions, so we will be using this column to highlight various difficult but important life issues. In today’s culture, many married...
by afladmin | May 29, 2018 | End of Life
I have always seen this particular idiom as a sarcastic way of expressing disdain for something. “Sitting through dinner with her is a fate worse than death.” But as Anglicans for Life addresses end-of-life issues, this idiom caused me to really consider—what is a...
by afladmin | May 24, 2018 | Abortion
One of the biggest lies that our pro-abortion society tells women is that Planned Parenthood is the best, most credible option for them to receive medical care. It’s even more of a falsehood that this abortion giant cares about women; Planned Parenthood is a business...
