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Hello friend! Welcome to Peace Garden Passage. I pray your visit brings refreshment. Blessings & peace! Roxane
Recently, my husband’s heavy-metal band reunited for a couple performances. At the last event, our middle son, 22, showed up with some friends to hear the old man sizzle on stage. Entering the low-lit atmosphere of Rick’s Bar, I joined the youthful table toward the back. Within minutes, I found myself pulled into deep conversations…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Young people thirsting for God more than ever
The DesMarais family, pictured here in Island Park in September 2024, includes, left to right, Jacob, Charlotte, Olivia, Ron, Brandi, Sophia, Kaitlyn and Isabelle. FARGO — Early in their dating relationship, Brandi and Ron DesMarais…
Continue Reading Faith Conversations: Mother of six with liver tumor focused on faith
https://pixabay.com/photos/people-woman-mother-child-kid-2564100/ In mid-October, a mother with an abortion appointment chose life here in the Red River Valley, and the abortion escorts’ tactics played a role in the reversal. The details came to us, unexpectantly, within…
Continue Reading Sidewalk Stories: Escorts tactics backfired, helped mom choose life
Judging from the ages of the driver and passenger, I guessed they were a mother and daughter who were now emerging from the parking lot of our cities’ abortion facility. As the car approached the…
Continue Reading Sidewalk Stories: Numbing the pain can make abortion ‘thinkable’
Last spring, I attended a gala in Grand Forks celebrating 20 years of the St. Gianna and Pietro Molla Maternity Home’s existence. Christopher Bell, the husband of then-imprisoned pro-lifer Joan Bell, was among the speakers…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Law unjustly applied to local sidewalk advocates
Latter Rain Ministries ‘no longer homeless’ Latter Rain Ministries pastor Gloria Shields and husband Paul are seen in the church’s sanctuary on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. FARGO — The Rev. Gloria Shields had lived in…
Hello friend! Welcome to Peace Garden Passage. I pray your visit brings refreshment. Blessings & peace! Roxane