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Secular Sensitivity Gone Wild
By Robert Knight   |   12.09.14
It’s not enough for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to use its legal clout to halt graduation invocations or prayers before high school football games. In Florida, the ACLU insists that even a secular school concert in a building...
Single best Christmas gift for Families
12.04.14
If you love the Lord, love your kids and you also love the idea of Christ-centered freedom … you’re not going to want to miss this exciting message. Why is this so important?
Nativity Scene Returns to Illinois State Capitol for 7th Straight Year
12.01.14
At noon on Tuesday, December 2, 2014, the Springfield Nativity Scene Committee (SNSC) will unveil its annual display depicting the newborn Christ Child, lying in a manger inside a handcrafted wooden stable. For the seventh year in a row, the...
Idaho Pastors Win Battle Over “Gay” Nuptials  
By David E. Smith   |   11.29.14
An Idaho pastor and his wife have won a showdown with the city of Couer d’Alene over demands that they preside over same-sex union ceremonies. Donald and Evelyn Knapp, who are both ordained Pentecostal ministers, have operated The Hitching Post...
AFA to Duggars:  We’ve Got Your Back
By   |   11.26.14
A prominent pro-family group is urging the public to take action on behalf of the Duggar family, who the group says is under a "malicious attack" because of their uncompromising, Christ-centered stand on several social issues.
Why We Shouldn’t Take “The Marriage Pledge” Too Soon
By John Stonestreet   |   11.25.14
The next several years are going to be messy for Christians. We already know that some who claim to be within our fold will continue to challenge the historic, orthodox teaching about sexuality, marriage, and the essence of what it...
The Crucifixion of Pastor Scott Lively
By   |   11.19.14
“Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.” ~John 15:20 Christians, pastors, take heed. In...
Christian School’s ROTC Under Attack
11.14.14
Do Christian colleges have the right to require that ROTC officers be followers of the Christian faith? That’s the crux of a controversy surrounding the ROTC program at Wheaton College, one of the nation’s most prominent Christian schools.
Atheist Tells Christians to Keep Faith In the ‘Closet’
By Dr. Michael L. Brown   |   11.14.14
Writing in response to my article “Secularism Declares Open War On Religious Faith,” an atheist has assured his readers that there is no such war and that, more importantly, in order to avoid conflict with the larger society, I should...
Pastors Don’t Need to Enter Politics — They’re Already in it
11.11.14
A friend is encouraging pastors to run for political office. Like everyone, he’s worried about America’s future, and he’d like to see more experienced Christian leaders in public office. It’s a good ol’ American tradition that goes back to the Founding, and it will bear fruit and frustration, generate success and cynicism, in roughly equal measure.
Natural Marriage Advocate Goes on Trial in Canada for “Hate Speech” Violation
By Monte Larrick   |   11.11.14
In the video below, Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality gives an update on his court case in which he was indicted for taking a pro-family stand in Canada. On April 10, 2014, LaBarbera was denied entrance into...
President Obama vs. Franklin Graham on Islam
By Dr. Michael L. Brown   |   11.10.14
During a 2009 interview on France’s Canal+TV channel that is just now being reported widely, President Barack Obama claimed that Americans needed to be better educated on Islam and that, if we compute the total number of Muslims in America,...
No Church, No Freedom
By   |   11.05.14
Regular readers have read John Stonestreet and me refer to religious freedom as the “first freedom.” You probably think that’s another way of saying that it’s the most important freedom. Well, it is. But it’s also the source of all...
Secularism Declares Open War on Religious Faith
By Dr. Michael L. Brown   |   10.30.14
In case you didn’t know it, if you are a conservative Christian, you are just like Boko Haram and ISIS. At least, that’s what the secularists are saying. More absurd still, they actually believe this. Of course, secularism has been...
Defending Churches: ADF Challenges Government Assaults on Religious Freedom
10.24.14
Written by Allen Sears I recently wrote to invite you to enlist your pastor to participate in our seventh annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday, October 5, and your response has been phenomenal. More than 1,800 pastors from all 50 states plus...
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