By
David E. Smith
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04.11.13
The U.S. Army Reserve has issued training materials that identify Evangelical Christians, Catholics, and Mormons as “religious extremists.” The training document also lists “Islamophobia” as a form of religious extremism.
The Equal Opportunity training presentation lists “Evangelical Christianity” at the...
03.28.13
Yesterday I got a call from a reporter from one of our state’s larger newspapers. The newspaper wanted a comment from someone in the community to add a local perspective to all the national stories about the Supreme Court’s hearings on marriage. Since I didn’t live in that community, I wondered why she called me...
By
David E. Smith
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02.19.13
Bishop RD Edwin Goodwin Sr. leads the Northwest region of the International Church of God in Christ (COGIC). He speaks for 500 churches in Illinois.
Motivated by love of God and love of neighbor, Bishop Goodwin wrote to Governor Patrick...
12.16.12
As you finish up your Christmas shopping, three companies have noticeably reduced their use of "Christmas" in newspaper advertising and on their websites from past years.
11.29.12
As I see it, this election of a pro-abortion/gay marriage/tax-and-spend President is (as is life itself) a potential blessing and a livable struggle, neither of which can be changed, both of which can be used for our betterment as individuals and as a nation.
11.07.12
It’s a tricky thing to engage in political analysis before the dust has fully settled on a recent election. No doubt pollsters, pundits, and politicians from both sides of the aisle will be examining the 2012 election in the coming weeks and months.
10.23.12
Recent events have again renewed the debate among Christians as to our proper role in speaking to the moral and social issues of our time such as the definition of marriage, governmental coercion to override religious convictions, and the rights of the unborn to enjoy the same protections we do.
On the one hand there are those who say ...
By
Laurie Higgins
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09.05.12
I often find the statements or actions of Illinois politicians embarrassing or worse. Watching U.S. Senator Dick Durbin’s interview with Bret Baier was one of those occasions. I cannot for the life of me understand why Illinoisans continue year after...
By
Laurie Higgins
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08.18.12
Following our expose of the reason for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) dubious and defamatory inclusion of the Illinois Family Institute (IFI) on their “anti-gay hate groups” list, the SPLC started receiving complaints, which evidently didn’t sit too well...
By
Micah Clark
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06.20.12
There is a new poll out that ought to be a call to action for every pastor and patriotic American. (That may irk some, but many of our founders would say the same thing. Consider what John Adams said about...
By
David E. Smith
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04.19.12
As secularists crusade to remove the Bible from schools, researcher William Jeynes has discovered this effort might impede the academic achievement of African-American and Hispanic students. His three-year review of more than 1,000 studies on the achievement gap revealed that...
03.26.12
Saturday March 31, 2012 – Saturday March 31, 2012
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Our nation was founded by ordinary citizen activists desiring a government that was accountable to the people. It’s 2012 and cities, counties,...
By
Rev. Thorin Anderson
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02.29.12
It is a telling commentary on our culture that we no longer comprehend that man has a penchant for bad behavior, what the Bible calls “sin.” Discussing “sin” is like discussing the flat earth theory. It simply isn’t. However, we...
02.28.12
by John Piper
Of course, the courage of Bonhoeffer to defy the compromising state church of Germany in the early days of Nazism is inspiring. A church that did not stand with the Jews, he said, was not the church...
To whom do we pledge our allegiance?
Anything American and anything Christ-centered seems to be “unconstitutional” these days. The litmus test that appears to be in use in determining if something is constitutional or not, is “if someone may become...
