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Why Do People Still Donate to Universities?
08.18.16
There was rare good news this month. On August 4, The New York Times published a front-page article headlined, "College Students Protest, Alumni's Fondness Fades and Checks Shrink."
Pastors Challenge IL Ban on Sexual Identity Counseling in Court
08.18.16
Illinois' ban on sexual identity counseling is facing a legal challenge from pastors who fear they could be charged with consumer fraud if they provide pastoral counseling to young people who want to turn away from same-sex attraction.
Why HAS the Church Been Caught by Surprise by the Body-Rejecting Revolution?
By Laurie Higgins   |   08.17.16
There’s a brief interview on the Desiring God website with Australian theologian and pastor Dr. Rob Smith. It’s titled “Why Did the Transgender Revolution Catch Us by Surprise?” Although it’s helpful in explaining the philosophical and political origins of the revolution to normalize the abnormal rejection of one’s biological sex, it ignores one of the most significant reasons that the so-called “transgender” revolution has caught most Christians by surprise: the failure of many (perhaps most) church leaders to address it.
Whoa and Giddyup
By   |   08.16.16
Self-control is not a virtue that can be tucked away in one small portion of our lives. We have seen that it applies everywhere, and that when a people are self-governed, they are in a position to enjoy free government....
Rauner Sears Conscience Law in Illinois
By Monte Larrick   |   08.10.16
Governor Bruce Rauner has signed a law which forces pro-life medical professionals to promote abortion. In response, pregnancy centers have filed a lawsuit against the governor and federal legislation is now being debated in Congress.
Our Failing Demographics
By Oliver Perry   |   08.09.16
In an exhibition gallery, somewhere … Welcome to our display of demographic failures! Here you will see amazing things, from both near and far. Behind this first curtain we have … Japan! It’s a nice place but the locals don’t...
Rights of Conscience Lawsuit Filed in Response to SB 1564
08.08.16
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing an Illinois doctor and two pregnancy care centers filed suit in state court against Gov. Bruce Rauner after he recently signed a bill into law that forces doctors and medical facilities to promote abortion regardless...
Big Abortion’s Compromised Data
08.06.16
In the waning quixotic campaign to compromise principle for the sake of convenience, the American Medical Association (AMA) has reaffirmed a 2005 study challenging the capacity of babies to feel pain at twenty weeks...
The West’s War on the Family
08.06.16
For decades, now, Christians have worried about the progressive push to strip naked the public square by forcing religion into the shadows of a private sphere. Recent events have made clear that this is not the case.
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