A prominent pro-life organization is headed to Anchorage next month to equip Alaskans with practical tools and strategies to defend preborn babies from abortion, while inspiring churches to get off the sidelines and enter the battle.
The Aug. 14-15 trainings feature national pro-life leader A.J. Hurley, director of activism and outreach for The White Rose Resistance, a pro-life Christian organization founded by Seth Gruber in 2022. It aims to mobilize the American church against abortion by directly drawing parallels between modern abortion and the historical injustices of Nazi Germany.
Hurley is the primary operational organizer, public spokesperson, and traveling speaker for the group. He is responsible for training and mobilizing grassroots efforts across the country and regularly represents the organization on podcast circuits, radio shows, and at church events to promote the group’s mission.
Before stepping into his role at The White Rose Resistance, Hurley was already a well-known national figure within the pro-life movement. He spent eight years as a neonatal respiratory care practitioner, an experience he frequently cites as the catalyst for his full-time pro-life activism.
Hurley was also a co-founder of the #JusticeForTheFive campaign, which made national news in March 2023 when he and a group of activists intercepted a container of fetal remains outside a late-term Washington, D.C. abortion clinic.
He formerly served as the National Director of Activism for other prominent pro-life groups, including Live Action and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust.
Huley’s two-day Anchorage presentation will be at Mountain City Church.
“Come get equipped to defend the preborn, speak clearly and biblically about abortion, and help build the work of the Church to resist the culture of death in Alaska,” a notice for the workshops states. “We are equipping the saints to defend the preborn and transform Alaska with the gospel.”
White Rose Resistance takes its name and inspiration from the original White Rose Resistance, a small collective of Christian students in Nazi Germany – including Hans and Sophie Scholl – who secretly distributed leaflets criticizing the regime before being executed in 1943. The modern organization aims to revive this historical legacy of resistance by challenging what it describes as the “culture of death” in the modern era.
The group affirms the inherent dignity of a person from the moment of conception to natural death, and members actively campaign on the local and state levels to oppose measures that would expand abortion.
On Friday, Aug. 14, Hurley will speak from 5:30-8:30 p.m. during an outreach training workshop. The next day, he is scheduled to speak 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on public outreach.
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— For more information about the upcoming workshops, click here.
— For information about the White Rose Resistance Alaska Chapter, click here.
