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Free Families to Serve God and One Another
By David E. Smith   |   03.26.11
In his famous letter from a Birmingham jail Martin Luther King Jr. observed, “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Senator Kimberly Lightford (D-Westchester area) has introduced a very troubling anti-family, big...
“Medical” Marijuana Bill Back in Springfield
03.24.11
State Representative Lou Lang (D-Skokie) is once again pushing a bill to legalize so-called “medical” marijuana. As you may know, the Marijuana Policy Project is supported by George Soros, the radically liberal billionaire from Eastern Europe. They are heavily invested...
Parental Divorce May Contribute to Early Death in Adulthood
By David E. Smith   |   03.22.11
A new book analyzing data about longevity in the United State over the past 80 years found some sobering news about divorce. In an era of easy “no fault” divorce where marriage is often viewed as disposable, the authors found...
The Reality of Guilt
By Rev. Thorin Anderson   |   03.12.11
Living in the “information age” and in a time of unprecedented technical achievement, it is difficult to explain the disconnect of many Americans between their actions and the consequence of those actions. Those of us who turn to the Bible...
More Young People Are Choosing Abstinence
By David E. Smith   |   03.11.11
The federal government’s latest survey on sexual behavior in the United States contains evidence that more teenagers are choosing abstinence over sex. In the 15 to 24 age group, 29 percent of females and 27 percent of males report never...
More Young People Are Choosing Abstinence
By David E. Smith   |   03.10.11
The federal government’s latest survey on sexual behavior in the United States contains evidence that more teenagers are choosing abstinence over sex. In the 15 to 24 age group, 29 percent of females and 27 percent of males report never...
IFI Press Release: IFI Objects to New Civil Unions Legislation
01.31.11
Divisive & Unpopular “Civil Unions” Bill Does Not Promote the General Welfare of the Citizenry In the waning days of the previous General Assembly, during a lame-duck session and by razor thin margins, Illinois lawmakers passed a bill that radically...
Saving Sex for Marriage Leads to Greater Stability, Communication
12.28.10
by Patrick B. Craine –LifeSiteNews.com Couples who reserve sex for marriage enjoy greater stability and communication in their relationships, say researchers at Brigham Young University. A new study from the Mormon college found that those couples who waited until marriage...
Marriage is “Obsolete”?
By David E. Smith   |   11.11.10
The Pew Research Center recently released a study highlighting rapidly changing views on the American family. About 29 percent of children under 18 now live with a parent or parents who are unwed or no longer married, a fivefold increase...
Time to Reunite Church and State
By   |   11.01.10
John Adams, our second U.S. president, famously observed: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” The U.S. Constitution, indeed our entire republican form of government, was...
Divorce — The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience
10.05.10
AlbertMohler.com Evangelical Christians are gravely concerned about the family, and this is good and necessary. But our credibility on the issue of marriage is significantly discounted by our acceptance of divorce. To our shame, the culture war is not the...
Don Wildmon, Founder of American Family Association, Honored
By David E. Smith   |   09.23.10
Last week in Washington, the Values Voter Summit honored the work of American Family Association’s founderDr. Don Wildmon for his 33 years of leadership and faithful service advocating conservative social and moral policies. Wildmon began AFA in 1977 in the...
Robert Patterson Argues that Fiscal Conservatism is Not Enough
By Laurie Higgins   |   09.23.10
Here’s an excerpt from an excellent article on the intensifying public debate about whether conservatives should participate in a truce on the “social issues”(aka “essential moral issues”). It would be more accurate to describe this as de facto demand that...
What is the Public Purpose for Marriage?
By David E. Smith   |   09.13.10
National Review Online (NRO) recently published an editorial entitled “The Case for Marriage.” The publication’s editors discuss how those in powerful positions in our society seem to be coming to the inevitable conclusion that our culture should be open to...
What About the Children?
By Rev. Thorin Anderson   |   08.30.10
None of us who have written about the subject of homosexuality expect that we will change the minds of many homosexuals regarding the morality of their conduct. That is not why we write. However, there is significant confusion among Americans...
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