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Mary Jackson

Mary is a book reviewer and reporter for WORLD. She is a World Journalism Institute and Greenville University graduate who previously worked for the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal. Mary resides with her family in the San Francisco Bay area. Follow her on Twitter @mbjackson77.

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Finding Jesus after the Summer of Love

Lifestyle | 50 years later, some former hippies still follow Christ
by Mary Jackson
Posted 11/19/17, 12:02 am

SAN FRANCISCO—This year marks the 50th anniversary of San Francisco’s 1967 Summer of Love—a summer that quickly turned into a winter of discontent, rife with drug overdoses, sexually transmitted diseases, and other miseries. The deteriorating Haight-Ashbury scene proved fertile ground for the Jesus Movement, as disillusioned hippies professed faith in Christ. Many, now old, remember those weird and wonderful days.

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Mary Jackson

After the fires

Lifestyle | Singing songs of praise amid raw reality
by Mary Jackson
Posted 11/07/17, 10:23 pm

SANTA ROSA, Calif.—As newly married and newly saved hippies, my in-laws once lost their few possessions in a flood that submerged the tree house they built and lived in on an Oregon communal property. They have mostly laughed about this, only wishing sometimes they had retrieved more than one washed-out wedding photo.

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Holidays at home

Children’s Books | Thanksgiving read-alouds
by Mary Jackson
Posted 10/25/17, 01:17 pm

The Thanksgiving Story 

Alice Dalgliesh

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Finding courage

Children’s Books | Four recent novels for preteens or teens

Mary Jackson | 10/11/17, 12:48 pm

Podkin One-Ear

Kieran Larwood

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Journeys of discovery

Children’s Books | Four middle grade novels

Mary Jackson | 9/11/17, 11:52 pm

The Battle of Seattle

Douglas Bond

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Country Mill’s forbidden fruit

Religious Liberty | Why would a Michigan city banish a popular, family-run orchard?

Mary Jackson | 8/15/17, 08:37 am

CHARLOTTE, Mich.—The day before Steve Tennes was born, his father, siblings, and grandmother planted more than 3,000 apple trees on the family’s newly acquired 120-acre Charlotte, Mich., farm, earning him an orchard in his name.

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Culture creep

Children’s Books | Four books with LGBT storylines parents should be aware of

Mary Jackson | 6/05/17, 05:22 pm

Ashes to Asheville 

Sarah Dooley

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Caught in the middle

Children’s Books | Four preteen and teen novels

Mary Jackson | 4/25/17, 11:07 am

The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

John Boyne

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Rent-a-womb

Surrogacy | Gay men use money and political clout, and claim surrogate moms are unattached to the babies they carry

Mary Jackson | 4/10/17, 10:00 am

SAN FRANCISCO—The 10th-floor ballroom of San Francisco’s Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel has high, coffered ceilings and baroque-style drapes and chandeliers. As 250 men in business casual filled the room early this year for the city’s fourth annual “Surrogacy Conference and Expo,” all eyes were on four female panelists at the front. The topic: how gay men can have babies using surrogates.

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Dollars and sense

Children’s Books | Books to help kids understand economics

Mary Jackson | 3/10/17, 06:39 pm

Ox-Cart Man 

Donald Hall

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