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Tell Hilton Hotel chain to market responsibly
07.26.16
In the June, 2016, issue of Travel and Leisure magazine, Hilton Worldwide shocked readers by placing a full-page ad that featured two men in bed together. Click here to see the ad. Travel and Leisure isn’t a gay-specific magazine sent...
Target and the Transgender Video Voyeur
By   |   07.25.16
When Target announced its transgender-friendly restroom and fitting room policy in April, the American Family Association (AFA) almost immediately called for a boycott. (You can sign the petition here.) What alarmed us in particular was Target’s eagerness to allow grown...
Six Ways Christians Can Respond to the Growing Police Dilemma
07.22.16
When we heard about the shootings last week, my wife and I were heartsick. Seven people died in what feels like an escalating national crisis. Two people died at the hands of police officers, while five officers died at the hands of a single suspect. The tension and distrust between African Americans and police officers is at the highest level in my lifetime. As my son Jimmy (a third-generation police officer himself) flew as a member of the Honor Guard to represent our agency at five officer funerals in Dallas this week, I began to gather my thoughts about how we, as Christians, might respond to the growing dilemma.
Forgiveness: The Most Powerful Apologetic
07.22.16
We apologists love to offer evidence for the existence of God, the reliability of the Bible, and the resurrection of Jesus. These are powerful truths that have convinced many to personally trust Christ.
Islam, Revolution, and Black Lives Matter
07.21.16
In a speech delivered to the Annual MAS-ICNA (Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America) Convention in December 2015, Nihad Awad, the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), urged Muslim Americans to take up the cause of Black Lives Matter. “Black Lives Matter is our matter,” he said; “Black Lives Matter is our campaign.”
Rotten to the Common Core: Two Events Exposing the Massive Education Takeover
By Monte Larrick   |   07.20.16
Dr. Duke Pesta says if you add up all the facts, it’s clear: Common Core is fueling the crisis in American education. The acclaimed education reformer contends that Common Core is a huge federal government overreach that is quickly making...
Black and Blue America
By Israel Wayne   |   07.19.16
It seems that America is now locked in an endless loop of tension and violence. Many disaffected Americans are railing out at a government they see as being abusive and vindictive. Movements like “Black Lives Matter” have pitted some African-American...
McDonald’s Chooses Porn Free Wi-Fi
By   |   07.16.16
A fast-food restaurant has started blocking Internet pornography from its Wi-Fi-enabled restaurants while a second chain is refusing to do so. McDonald’s has been lobbied for nearly two years to block Internet pornography in its restaurants and has finally done...
New LGBT Target: Doctors
07.15.16
Remember the 11,588,500 word bill passed by Congress in 2010, accompanied by the hopeful promise of easy-access healthcare? The bill that continues to cause the closure of small businesses and price hikes in the insurance market? That’s right, the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) strikes again.
U.S. House Approves Federal Conscience Protection Act
By David E. Smith   |   07.14.16
Last night the U.S. House of Representatives passed the federal Conscience Protection Act (CPA) by a vote of 245-182.  This vital legislation will help protect health care providers from being forced to pay for or participate in abortions, and allow...
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