How the Sexual Revolution Freed Men and Failed Women
By the time I was a teenager in the 2000s, the notion of waiting until marriage to have sex was considered outdated. Few of my peers practiced it, and the societal expectation was quite the opposite. I remember the tension I felt between what I believed and what...
Living Proof: Stories from Vitae’s Alpha Centers (Summer 2025)
Clementine Clementine* scheduled an appointment with our pregnancy center with a simple request: she needed support. When she arrived, she explained that she was pregnant and unsure of what to do.As we listened, her story unfolded. She had recently fled an abusive...
Shifting the Focus: Pro-Life Media as a Voice for Women, Not Politics
“Why don’t I hear these kinds of stories in the media?” This was the question I asked myself on the plane back from Heartbeat International’s 2025 annual conference. I had just interviewed several pregnancy center directors and listened as they talked about the women...
The Church’s Quiet Crisis
“Time heals all wounds.” For a while, I made this phrase a part of my vocabulary, and then I realized it wasn’t true. Not one bit. When I lost a good friend of mine, Tyler, years ago unexpectedly, I really took a lot of time to “process” what happened. I thought about...
Why Facts Fail: How to Actually Change Minds About Abortion
As much as it ages me to say, I became a young adult just as the internet was becoming popular. As I explored “the web” (again, aging myself), I suddenly found myself amidst many worldviews much different from my own. As I encountered social media posts, articles or...
Amplify, Multiply, Influence
In early 1900s Rome, Maria Montessori defied norms by becoming Italy’s first female doctor. But her passion wasn’t medicine—it was helping children, especially those deemed “uneducable.” She saw that with respect, patience and the right environment, they could thrive....