Rod Dreher Answers, “Isn’t the Benedict Option a Retreat?”
In Part 3 of Pastor Derek Buikema’s compelling interview with author Rod Dreher, they discuss the difference between a cowardly retreat from…
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Are Politically Engaged Conservative Christians Idolaters?
In his recent Christianity Today (CT) blog post, New Testament scholar Scot McKnight defends recently retired CT president Mark Galli’s hubristic diktat…
Media Misrepresents the Story of Christian School That Expelled Student
The story of an innocent birthday cake that wasn’t and the expulsion of 15-year-old Kayla Kenney from Whitefield Academy, a private Christian…
Rod Dreher: What is the Benedict Option?
In Part 2 of Pastor Derek Buikema’s interview with author Rod Dreher, they discuss his book, The Benedict Option... Rod describes what…
Chicago Tribune: Shill for Human Slaughter
In an 804-word news article appearing in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, Jan. 10, the day before the March for Life, “reporter” Angie…
Pastor Derek Buikema Interviews Rod Dreher on Christian WorldView
IFI has a special treat for our readers. Recently, Derek Buikema, senior pastor of Orland Park Christian Reformed Church, interviewed Rod Dreher,…
Chicago “Trans” Power Couple Birth New Illinois Birth Certificates
Precious and Myles Brady Davis are LGBTQ activists, writers, speakers. Myles is the director of communications at Equality Illinois; Precious works at…
Christians, the Church, and the State
I’d like to offer a few words about the separation of church and state—a concept long abused by “progressives.” The religion clauses…
Military Honors Pederast Harvey Milk
On Friday, December 13, 2019, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that construction had just begun on a Navy ship named the United…
Holiday Depravity and Arrogance from Theater Community
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. has a special holiday treat for the kiddies this year:…
Chicago Public Schools Promote Hindu Religious Practice of Transcendental Meditation
Next time you hear some arch-defender of the a-constitutional “wall” of separation between the church and state whose knickers are in a…
Christians Caving to “Trans”-Cultists’ Language Rules
While theologians Dr. Denny Burk, Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon, Dr. John Piper, and Pastor Douglas Wilson say Christians should not use…