Christine M. Flowers

Philadelphia

Columnist at The Delaware County Daily Times

Lawyer, columnist, Catholic, world traveler, knitter, really bad driver, really bad cook, loving aunt, conservative pundit and “hard core pro life.” Enough?

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Articles

Flowers: During patriotic season, she’s still searching for the right America

3 weeks ago | delcotimes.com | Christine M. Flowers

There are four holidays that occur in quick succession and that symbolize our love of country: Memorial Day, D-Day, Flag Day and July Fourth. The first and the last are the most important, because they commemorate those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, and those who created this beloved nation at great risk to themselves.
Flowers: Philly Zoo thankfully nixes planned drag queen story hour

4 weeks ago | delcotimes.com | Christine M. Flowers

From my earliest childhood, I attended the Mummer’s Parade every year, watching husky fellows with banjos, full-face makeup and glitter sashay down Broad Street. It’s a tradition that, while difficult to explain to out-of-towners, is near and dear to our Quaker City hearts. I also had a platonic crush on Geraldine, the Flip Wilson character with the fabulous hair and legs that looked better on him thanon practically every woman I’ve ever encountered. I’m serious, those gams were fine.
Christine Flowers: Weaponized words can lead to terror

1 month ago | broadandliberty.com | Christine M. Flowers

Christine Flowers: Weaponized words can lead to terror A Decrease font size. A Reset font size. A Increase font size. When the Tufts student was arrested by ICE for an op-ed she wrote condemning Israel, many protested the “criminalization” of words.
Flowers: Weaponized words were behind the killings of Israeli Embassy staffers

1 month ago | delcotimes.com | Christine M. Flowers

When the Tufts student was arrested by ICE for an op-ed she wrote condemning Israel, many protested the “criminalization” of words. “She just wrote a column,” they said. As someone who makes a living choosing the correct words to persuade people to my point of view, whether it be on social media or in the courtroom, I’m extremely skittish about telling someone else how to use them, and how to express themselves.
Flowers: More should get expedited processing like the South Africans

1 month ago | delcotimes.com | Christine M. Flowers

I am writing this column early on Friday morning, sitting on an Amtrak train to Newark. My destination is the immigration court, where I will try and obtain asylum for an abused woman from Central America. So you can imagine that I have more than a little interest in the topic of refugees. That’s why my antenna went up when I heard about the small group of Afrikaners from South Africa who, according to trustworthy reports, have been given expedited processing as … refugees.
Christine Flowers: An American Pope for the 21st century

1 month ago | broadandliberty.com | Christine M. Flowers

Christine Flowers: An American Pope for the 21st century A Decrease font size. A Reset font size. A Increase font size. There have only been two times in my life when I cried over a Pope. The first was in April of 2005, when John Paul II died.
Flowers: Solid disappointment that childhood TV idols went full-throttle left

1 month ago | delcotimes.com | Christine M. Flowers

“Little House on the Prairie” was never one of my favorite television shows for a very specific reason: The series of books about a pioneer girl and her family, written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, was in fact one of my favorite pieces of literature. I spent hours in the early 1970s devouring the autobiographical children’s stories and had a very specific idea of what “my” Laura looked and sounded like.
Christine Flowers: A nice column about a nice lady

1 month ago | delcotimes.com | Christine M. Flowers

The world is very good at mourning famous people. When Pope Francis died, time stopped in its tracks and we all took a moment to say a prayer. Catholics, non-Catholics and those who never professed a faith felt some kinship with a man who had a huge presence and made a difference in many lives. The same thing happened when Queen Elizabeth II passed away after seven decades in the public eye. And so it is, with actors, kings and commoners.
Christine Flowers: The speech I would have given

1 month ago | broadandliberty.com | Christine M. Flowers

Christine Flowers: The speech I would have given A Decrease font size. A Reset font size. A Increase font size. On Wednesday evening, the United Republican Club of Philadelphia honored me with its Woman of the Year award. I wrote a speech, and then forgot to deliver it.
Flowers: In battleground library, Radnor reinstates controversial books

2 months ago | delcotimes.com | Christine M. Flowers

In the dystopian Ray Bradbury novel “Fahrenheit 451,” a totalitarian government mandates the burning of books. At the time of its writing, 1953, the author suggested that the impetus for the book was the Red Scare that was taking place in the country. Throughout the years, his reasoning evolved, to the point where he ultimately came to believe that “political correctness” was the problem.