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Friendship, Parenting, and the Great Divide

Apr 30, 2018Julie Klose2 CommentsFamily, Life, Politicscharacter values, Friendship, parenting, political division

My son’s middle school does something that I love. Every semester the school hands out character value awards to nominated students. A student is chosen by a teacher for displaying the following values: commitment, integrity, respect, and responsibility. I’ll take a minute to brag that my children have received one of those awards on occasion.…

Trigger Alert: Public Prayer!

Mar 24, 2017Julie Klose2 CommentsFaith, PoliticsEric Metaxas, faith and freedom, First Amendment, If you can keep it book, public prayer, Religious freedom, Religious liberty, The Velvet Brick

They were four simple words, but they somehow triggered a great offense. “Please bow your heads,” the woman said to the audience before her prayer. Let me set the scene for you to understand the context. I was sitting at a table among a group of high school students in an enormous room of nearly…

#SquadGoals and Raising Daughters in a Nasty Woman’s World

Mar 7, 2017Julie Klose18 CommentsFaith, Politics, Pro-Life#ADayWithoutAWoman, #NastyWoman, #WomensDay, #WomensHistoryMonth, #WomensMarch, Bible, Christianity, Feminism, The book of Ruth, Women March on Washington

I still can’t get those images out of my head. Women were marching on Washington clad in vagina suits and pink pussy hats. Just writing that sentence irks me. Am I really raising my daughters in this crude society of women? The words of Ashley Judd’s speech at the Women’s March on January 21, 2017,…

A Mission Call to Raising Pro-life Kids!

Jul 16, 2015Julie Klose4 CommentsFaith, Politicsabortion, Center for Medical Progress, Dr. Nucatola, Planned Parenthood, Pro-life, Pro-life kids

Photo courtesy of theradiancefoundation.org The only way to describe it is my soul just grieves. The undercover videos from the Center for Medical Progress have caught everyone’s attention on social media. In the initial video, Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical services Dr. Deborah Nucatola is caught casually eating her lunch while describing how she kills babies in…

Understanding Religious Liberty: My Interview with Eric Metaxas

Mar 12, 2014Julie KloseFaith, PoliticsEric Metaxas, Religious liberty

Several years ago, I started this blog because I began to notice how important it was for religion and politics to mix. The importance is about religious liberty in America and what helped me to understand was a book I read by Eric Metaxas titled “Bonhoeffer”. The book is the life story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,…

In His Hands. (A Glimpse of Abortion)

Apr 11, 2013Julie KloseFaith, Politicsabortion

I was once carrying a child. It was not a fetus or blob of tissue but a developing baby. I remember the nurse consoling me that this fetus had no heartbeat. She said to me, “It is not a death just an absence of what was needed to become human”. Then why did I feel…

Religious Freedom vs. A Cup of Coffee- Huh?

Mar 28, 2013Julie KloseFaith, PoliticsEric Metaxas, Religious freedom, Starbucks boycott

The Velvet Brick is now a contributing writer for a women’s conservative news site. Here is my latest article on an important subject that is stirring up a lot of media attention. Here is an excerpt and a link to the site. During CPAC among the up and coming “political rock stars” like Ben Carson,…