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Martha Hepler
@marthamhepler.bsky.social
Housewife pondering Imago Dei and all the implications. American in northern France. Writing about humane Christian family formation at https://open.substack.com/pub/marthahepler
I know there are so many bigger things in the news to be upset about, but this just makes me so sad and angry. How did no one on her tour (not just the staff) insist on staying with her? Maybe she would’ve died anyway, but she wouldn’t have been alone.
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Post on a really, really hard topic up now.
"If to continue on is to desecrate the mother’s body but to deliver the baby is to cause him or her more pain and suffering than waiting would, how do you choose?"
marthahepler.substack.com/p/medical-mi...
June 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I take it back, I’m never moving back! (Why doesn’t language change in only ways that I approve of?!)
June 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
June 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Groseille - c’est la saison
May 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
May 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Congratultions, you’ve invented homeschooling but outsourced to robots
May 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
from Fiverr, presented without comment
May 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Gonna tell my kids this was Trump Derangement Syndrome
May 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Just a reminder that anyone who knows any biology at a most basic level would not call a fetus a parasite.
April 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Okinawa shout out (I had no idea)
April 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
If you google “Italian breakfast” the results are wildly wrong and misleading but it turns out I did get a pic
April 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Going through my photos from Italy to save stock type photos for my Substack and realizing that the vast majority of my “good” photos are boring stock type photos 😢 Anyway here’s Perugia
April 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
surf bro goes to church

(in actuality, a talk-to-text malfunction)
April 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Gubbio
April 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I have recently discovered where the idea of “spirit babies” who leave (miscarriage) and come back to you in future pregnancies comes from and man I wish I could tell this person that that I agree! This is not in any way Christian!
April 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Umbria
April 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Hello from Umbria
April 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Out of office
April 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Humans building things have always been this way
April 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
On second thought, news from today--maybe they will take off.
April 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
April Fools Day in the English market town
April 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Lille, France
March 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It’s from a couple of years ago but
March 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The Sciences Po Lille library
March 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM