Maria Baer

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  Jul 31, 2020

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and anti-Semitism

  Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar openly advocate for the BDS movement, which is founded on the principle that Israel has no right to exist.

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  Jul 29, 2020

  What's the solution to the school crisis?

  Education officials in South Carolina said they’d lost contact with more than 16,000 students since the lockdown.

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  Jul 28, 2020

  Planned Parenthood is the most racist institution in America

  Is there a company or cultural institution more obviously and inherently racist than Planned Parenthood?

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  Jul 8, 2020

  Does your congregation want you to be a pastor or parrot?

  Pastoring is always a difficult job. I can’t think of another job, in fact, in which someone is hired to do one thing (typically, lead and disciple God’s people) but evaluated on a completely different thing (namely, growing the audience and the budget).

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  Jul 6, 2020

  Don’t forget those still on lockdown: Caring for the elderly, disabled

  It ought not surprise us to encounter cultural apathy to the lives of the elderly and disabled when it comes to stopping the spread of a disease that inconveniences the rest of us.

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  Jun 10, 2020

  Tweeting something isn't the same as doing something

  Last week, a pair of activists launched a social media campaign that quickly went from advocacy to unintentional irony.

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  May 18, 2020

  Adoption is beautiful, surrogacy isn't

  Adoption repairs a fracture. Surrogacy creates one.

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  May 11, 2020

  'The Chosen' is worth your time

  Sometimes ... we try to be too “wholesome,” “family-friendly,” and “positive.” This series is refreshingly gritty and has an impressive depth.

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  May 8, 2020

  Anderson Cooper and the new normal: Why surrogacy is oppression

  This story demonstrates that commercial surrogacy, including cases in which the child is intentionally deprived of its mother, is now fully normal.

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  Apr 27, 2020

  God, the Master Designer of life

  Is it really plausible to think science is certain about where everything comes from and how it got here?