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The Movie "180": What Can We Learn From It?
by Stephanie GrayAs I type this, I just finished watching Ray Comfort's thought-provoking and popular film "180." Four reflections are running through my mind, which I hope all people who wish to...
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Abortion: To Recommend or Not to Recommend
By Stephanie GrayIn a recent CBC interview by Evan Solomon about the re-opening of the abortion debate, abortion advocate Joyce Arthur stated, “There is actually a policy by the Canadian Medical...
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Sarah's Key: A Book and Film Review
By Stephanie Gray“When I think this happened in the middle of Paris, right in front of everyone—it’s disgusting!”This comment posed by a reporter in the film Sarah’s Key, based on the novel, is about...
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Secret Daughter: A Pro-Life Book Review
by Ruth (Lobo) Shaw“When she emerged from her grief, no one acknowledged her loss.” This very telling line was written by Shilpi Somaya Gowda in the novel Secret Daughter, which has recently become...
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Courageous: A Pro-Life Film Review
by James ShawCourageous is the story of five courageous men who seek to become better fathers. The viewer journeys with the five men as they accept the challenge of emulating true manhood, and act on...
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What Can Pro-Lifers Learn From KONY 2012?
by Jonathon Van MarenThere has been much discussion of the Kony2012 campaign of late—I’m sure many, if not all, of you have already watched the half hour video that’s sweeping the internet and social...
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What Can The Pro-Life Movement Learn From Andrew Breitbart?
by Jonathon Van MarenI first heard of Andrew Breitbart in February of 2010, while I was attending the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC with a like-minded friend from Simon...
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A Pro-Life Review of Victor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning
by Catherine Shenton“The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.” – Helen KellerViktor Frankl witnessed and experienced the far reaches of human suffering. “Life in a...
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To Save A Life: A Film Review
by Amber MillerJake Taylor, a less- naïve version of “Troy Bolton,” has everything a high school kid could ever dream of: the hair, the girl, and the truck. In the four years of his high school career,...
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October Baby: A Film Review
by Ania KasprzakHannah begins to shake… everything is blurry.It’s opening night - she is playing one of the lead roles in her school’s play – and yet… she cannot control the shuddering. Her spirit,...
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My Sister's Keeper: A Pro-Life Book Review
by Amber MillerIt all begins with a bruise: a little clover-shaped bruise. While bathing her two year old daughter, Sarah finds a trail of little brown bruises running down Kate’s spine. Sarah and her...
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Book Review: The Unaborted Socrates: A Dramatic Debate on the Issues...
By Maaike RosendalIn a culture largely preoccupied with instant gratification, short-term gain, and personal happiness, it is unpopular to question or criticize a procedure that instantly "solves"...
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A Review of 42
by Alanna Gomez“You want a player who doesn't have the guts to fight back?”“No. I want a player who's got the guts not to fight back.”(Warning: Plot Spoilers Ahead)I've never been very interested in...
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How to Win a Culture War: A Review of Hating Breitbart
by Jonathon Van MarenWhen Andrew Breitbart collapsed and died near his Los Angeles home on March 1, 2012, his abrupt passing rocked the conservative world like little else could. Fox News host Greg...
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Panem et Circenses: The Hunger Games and Abortion
by Catherine Shenton“They shed their sense of responsibility long ago, when they lost their votes, and the bribes; the mob that used to grant power, high office, the legions everything, curtails its...
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Occupy Unmasked: Ideology as a Street Fight
by Jonathon Van MarenBeing on the Canadian side of the border, my first notice of “Occupy Wall Street” was, of course, through the media—and not even they knew what they were describing as they...
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"Freakonomics" and Killing Crime
by Catherine Shenton“Haven’t you read Freakonomics?”Most people working in public pro-life outreach have heard this question at one point or another (maybe numerous times). It’s often followed by...
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My Daddy's Name Is Donor
by Jonathon Van MarenMany cultural commentators and media talking heads have labelled the 21st century the “surveillance age,” citing the increasingly omnipresent eye of the state and the slowly...
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What Children Know
by Catherine Shenton“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”--Scout, To Kill a MockingbirdAs I re-read To Kill a Mockingbird I was thinking about the way the children struggle to understand...
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Four more books for your 2014 reading list
by Catherine ShentonSometimes I read a book and I want to write about it on the blog, but for one reason or another (often because I don't want to spoil the plot), I don't. So if you're looking for...
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The Divergent trilogy and the objectification of women
by Robyn VandenHoekThe Divergent trilogy is a dystopian future in which the society is divided into five factions, each valuing and promoting a different character trait. Tris, a girl living in this...
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Groundless: The Moral Manifesto of Justin Trudeau
By Jonathon Van MarenJustin Trudeau’s ghost-written memoir—Common Ground—is many things. It’s as excruciatingly slow as Hillary Clinton’s Living History, and contains passages as painfully adolescent...
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