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Hometown Heroes – The Cost of Freedom – 10/22/24

Hometown Heroes – The Cost of Freedom – 10/22/24

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Today’s edition of “Hometown Heroes” introduces you to Dave Miller-Martini.

He is with “The Cost of Freedom” Foundation, which commits itself to creating a veterans’ wellness and recovery retreat. Phase 2 of creating that retreat center is now underway.

Host Mark Webster went to their recent event in Tionesta, Pennsylvania, to bring you their story.  (This is the first half of a two-part series.)

 

For more information:

  • TheCostOfFreedom website
  • How faith plays into their plans to support veterans
  • Their Mission Statement: The foundation “supports development and delivery of innovative holistic healthcare models that integrate faith, nature, mind, body, and spirit to produce individualized treatment care plans.”

Part 2 of this feature is available here: Hometown Heroes 10/29/2024

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Abortion on the Ballot, in Ten States – 10/21/24

Abortion on the Ballot, in Ten States – 10/21/24

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Abortion is on the Ballot this Election Year

A Family Life Newsmaker Interview

“The abortion industry has been very successful at using fear-mongering as a way to drive voters.” — Nicole Hunt

 

Two weeks from Tuesday, Americans will go to the polls to decide the 47th President of the United States.  Also that day, they will decide constitutional amendments that dramatically expand abortion access in 10 states.

In today’s feature report, Family Life News interviews Nicole Hunt, a policy analyst at “Focus on the Family” on why the abortion industry has been winning at the ballot box — and what pro-lifers can do to reverse the trend.

 

Attorney Nicole Hunt is a policy analyst for Focus on the Family. She joined Family Life’s Bob Price for an extended interview on the October 21 Noon Report.

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Other Family Life News podcasts which discuss how issues will or won’t be decided by “values-focused” voters in this fall’s elections are on www.FamilyLife.org/newspodcasts:

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Capital Connection – 10/18/24 – Religious Freedom, Election Involvement, Divorce, “Gender Care”

Capital Connection – 10/18/24 – Religious Freedom, Election Involvement, Divorce, “Gender Care”

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How NY’s Prop 1 impacts Religious Groups and Churches

Reforming Divorce Laws in PA

“Do No Harm” Report Highlights the Dangers of so-called “Gender-affirming” Care

Why Millions of Christians plan to Sit Out the 2024 Election

 

New York Families Foundation & New York Families ActionChristian watchdogs Jason McGuire with New York Families and Michael Geer with the Pennsylvania Family Institute discuss the weighty issues in the news — from Albany to Harrisburg to the ballot box to your hometown.

Both organizations offer issues-based voter guides and “how to register to vote” information on their websites.

 

 

 

“Capital Connection” with Bob Price airs on the radio and our live streams during the Noon Report and 5 O’Clock Report each Friday. Listen, download or share these conversations anytime, from the “Family Life News” podcast feed.
Children’s Hospitals & “Gender Care” – 10/17/24

Children’s Hospitals & “Gender Care” – 10/17/24

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Children’s Hospitals & “Gender Care”

A Family Life Newsmaker Interview

A national health-care watchdog group is out with new statistics on the number of so-called “gender transition” procedures being done at children’s hospitals. Do No Harm analyzed public insurance records to compile the number of children and teens who were treated using hormones, puberty blockers, and surgical procedures on sexual body parts. The organization also analyzed the amount of money paid by insurance companies to cover those costs. (Public funds such as Medicaid and state and federal government grants are also used for such purposes.)

Beth Serio of Do No Harm told us nearly 2,000 underage minors in New York and Pennsylvania were recipients of such procedures in the most recent reporting period. She talks about the exponential growth in this trend, the financial and philosophical motivations for medical providers and hospitals to recommend “gender affirming care”, and the complications which can result for patients and for the society.

Three PA/NY hospital systems are listed in their national Top Ten List for millions of dollars raked in to perform sex change treatments for minors: Mount Sinai, New York University, and Penn Medicine. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, with 122 such patients, by far tops the list of providers described as what DNH describes as the “Dirty Dozen” in the United States.

These links provide more information about Do No Harm, which takes its name from the millenia-old medical motto:

 

 

 

 

#FaithUnderFire  10/17/2024

 

Hometown Heroes – Jenn Boyd of “Hope Walks” – 10/15/24

Hometown Heroes – Jenn Boyd of “Hope Walks” – 10/15/24

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This week’s guest on Family Life’s “Hometown Heroes” feature is Jenn Boyd of the “Hope Walks” ministry. It works from Pennsylvania, but provides international medical work to help relieve the physical limitations — and, just as important, the social and personal stigma — faced by many children who are born with Club Foot syndrome. Their emphasis is that a treatable condition shouldn’t keep a child from walking.

This ministry has provided treatments for more than 161,000 children in 14 nations.

Hear about how this medical mission work is transforming lives and communities. Tap the podcast player on this page. You can also go to FamilyLife.org/newspodcasts to download or share this conversation with other who you believe would be interested too. (That link also give you a subscribe option to be notified each time Mark Webster posts a new edition of his “Hometown Heroes” interviews.)

Jenn Boyd is the communications project coordinator for Hope Walks, based in York Springs, PA.

 

For more information:

  • The website for Hope Walks is www.hopewalks.org
  • A background video is called “Hope Prays, Heals, Impacts … and Walks”. Their site also has multiple other videos online to explain the problem, the mission’s ways of healing, and the first-person stories of the families whose lives are enhanced because of a surgery which is simple and common in the U.S.

 

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Issues in Education – Tech, Student Behavior, SATs – 10/07/24

Issues in Education – Tech, Student Behavior, SATs – 10/07/24

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Issues in Education

An on-air feature and podcast from Family Life News – 10/07/2024

Kids Behaving Badly

The S-A-T

Helping Rural Schools Keep Up with Technology

 

Dr. Ralph Kerr at the “Teaching and Learning Institute” discusses education “trends” and topics of interest that impact our public schools. Listen for “Issues in Education” on alternating Mondays on during Family Life’s newscasts and podcasts.

 

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