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We Did It!
By David E. Smith   |   01.05.15
I am very happy to report that The Illinois Family Institute exceeded our end-of-year matching challenge! THANK YOU to all who contributed by phone, snail mail or online! Honestly, we cannot thank you enough for your support! You’ve heard it...
Another Amusing Bible Lesson from Newsweek
By   |   01.05.15
Newsweek magazine – which finally went out of print some time ago, but recently experienced a deep-pocketed resurrection – has graced its readers with a very long cover story on how Christians don’t know anything about the Bible and what...
Top 10 Misreported or Underreported Stories of 2014
01.04.15
As 2014 comes to an end, and the new year begins, we want to highlight some of the worst abuses by America’s news media in the past year. We have picked 10 stories for which there were general narratives presented by the mainstream media, which either ignored the larger truths to be gleaned from these stories, or, in some cases, the media missed the story altogether. We easily could have picked 15 topics that met those criteria, but arbitrarily chose to look at 10, and in no particular order.
Why We Need RFRAs
01.03.15
Despite their opponents’ claims in 2014, religious-liberty laws benefit many people.
How Do I Know God Better? A List of Ways To Know Who God Is
01.02.15
Who is God? People come to be aware of God in many ways; but how do you really know God better? There is a difference between merely being aware of God and knowing Him.
Protecting your church from the “Gay Gestapo”
By   |   01.02.15
Your church may be the next one approached to host a gay wedding and your pastor asked to perform the ceremony. So what can you do to fend off the lawsuits that are certain to follow when you refuse? Homosexual...
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Stand Today for the Generation of Tomorrow
By Andrew Willis   |   12.31.14
As the last hours of 2014 tick away, I want to encourage you not to look forward to just this upcoming year but to the many more that will follow. Then ask yourself what kind of legacy you want to...
IL Attorney General Launches Investigation on Library for Illegal Censorship
12.30.14
The Illinois Attorney General has launched investigations of the Orland Park Public Library, Orland Park, IL, for its censorship of–yours truly. That's right, me.
Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God
By   |   12.29.14
In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is less need for a “God” to explain the universe. Yet it turns out that the rumors of God’s death were premature. More amazing is that the relatively recent case for his existence comes from a surprising place—science itself.
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