Articles by Laurie Higgins
![Are Politically Engaged Conservative Christians Idolaters? Are Politically Engaged Conservative Christians Idolaters?](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ScottMcKnight.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.29.20
In his recent Christianity Today (CT) blog post, New Testament scholar Scot McKnight defends recently retired CT president Mark Galli’s hubristic diktat about the necessity—in Galli’s view—of Trump’s removal from office:
Whether Mr. Trump should be removed from office...
![Media Misrepresents the Story of Christian School That Expelled Student Media Misrepresents the Story of Christian School That Expelled Student](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Kayla_Cake-13.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.24.20
The story of an innocent birthday cake that wasn’t and the expulsion of 15-year-old Kayla Kenney from Whitefield Academy, a private Christian school in Louisville, Kentucky, has been covered in multiple news outlets. Kenney’s mother, Kimberly Alford, took a photo...
![Rod Dreher: What is the Benedict Option? Rod Dreher: What is the Benedict Option?](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/What-is-the-Benedict-Option.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.23.20
In Part 2 of Pastor Derek Buikema’s interview with author Rod Dreher, they discuss his book, The Benedict Option... Rod describes what the Benedict Option is and, equally important, what it isn’t.
![Chicago Tribune: Shill for Human Slaughter Chicago Tribune: Shill for Human Slaughter](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PinkHat-1.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.18.20
In an 804-word news article appearing in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, Jan. 10, the day before the March for Life, “reporter” Angie Leventis Lourgos provided these scant details about the event...
![Pastor Derek Buikema Interviews Rod Dreher on Christian WorldView Pastor Derek Buikema Interviews Rod Dreher on Christian WorldView](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/RodDreher-12.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.16.20
IFI has a special treat for our readers. Recently, Derek Buikema, senior pastor of Orland Park Christian Reformed Church, interviewed Rod Dreher, senior editor at the American Conservative and author of The Benedict Option, when Rod spoke at the Touchstone ...
![Chicago “Trans” Power Couple Birth New Illinois Birth Certificates Chicago “Trans” Power Couple Birth New Illinois Birth Certificates](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/combined-images.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.16.20
Precious and Myles Brady Davis are LGBTQ activists, writers, speakers. Myles is the director of communications at Equality Illinois; Precious works at the Sierra Club but has worked at the Center on Halsted in the past. Now, they are also parents who learned that the Illinois Department of Public Health’s birth certificate system automatically lists the parent who gives birth as “Mother/Co-Parent.”
![The Big Fat Lie of Leftists Who Sexually Integrate School Locker Rooms The Big Fat Lie of Leftists Who Sexually Integrate School Locker Rooms](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Whichever_RestRoom-4.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.13.20
School leaders who sexually integrate restrooms and locker rooms know what they’re doing is based on a lie. Why do I say that? First, let’s take a quick look at what’s happening in those schools that choose to sexually integrate...
![Christians, the Church, and the State Christians, the Church, and the State](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Church-State_516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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01.08.20
I’d like to offer a few words about the separation of church and state—a concept long abused by “progressives.” The religion clauses of the First Amendment were intended to protect religion from the intrusive power of the state, not the reverse. The Establishment Clause states that “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion.” That does not mean religious convictions are prohibited from informing political values and decisions...
![Military Honors Pederast Harvey Milk Military Honors Pederast Harvey Milk](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/usns-harvey-milk_516x260.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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12.31.19
On Friday, December 13, 2019, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that construction had just begun on a Navy ship named the United States Naval Ship Harvey Milk (USNS Harvey Milk) after the pederast Harvey Milk. You read that right. The...
![Holiday Depravity and Arrogance from Theater Community Holiday Depravity and Arrogance from Theater Community](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/JFK_MyFairLady-3.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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12.30.19
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. has a special holiday treat for the kiddies this year: My Fair Lady. Austin Ruse, president of the Center for Family & Human Rights and contributing editor to Crisis Magazine, and his wife Cathy Ruse, senior fellow for legal studies at the Family Research Council, took their 14- and 11-year-old daughters to see it, and here is an excerpt from his review published in the Washington Examiner:..
![Hallmark Reveals a Big Yellow Stripe Running Down Its Spineless Back Hallmark Reveals a Big Yellow Stripe Running Down Its Spineless Back](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Hallmark_Lesbians.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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12.19.19
As most breathing people now know, the Hallmark Channel, known for airing movies that families with intact moral compasses can watch with their children, upset its apple cart last week by secretly tossing in a poisoned apple for the kiddies...
![Ethically Challenged Bioethicist Whines About Kentucky Abortion Law Ethically Challenged Bioethicist Whines About Kentucky Abortion Law](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/rfaden_516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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12.17.19
Bioethicist Ruth Faden penned an irony-filled screed in which she whines about the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a challenge to Kentucky’s Ultrasound Informed Consent Act (H.B. 2), which requires that prior to the killing of humans in the womb, a doctor or technician must perform an ultrasound and explain to mothers gestators what the ultrasound shows....
![Chicago Public Schools Promote Hindu Religious Practice of Transcendental Meditation Chicago Public Schools Promote Hindu Religious Practice of Transcendental Meditation](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Transcendental-Meditation-5.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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12.02.19
Next time you hear some arch-defender of the a-constitutional “wall” of separation between the church and state whose knickers are in a twist because a school allows ten seconds of silence during which students may pray, remember this story, reported...
![Christians Caving to “Trans”-Cultists’ Language Rules Christians Caving to “Trans”-Cultists’ Language Rules](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Trans_pronouns.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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11.26.19
While theologians Dr. Denny Burk, Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon, Dr. John Piper, and Pastor Douglas Wilson say Christians should not use incorrect pronouns when referring to people who pretend to be the sex they aren’t, increasing numbers of purportedly...
![A Kindler, Gentler Anti-Christian SPLC? A Kindler, Gentler Anti-Christian SPLC?](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HateWatch-1-516x260.png)
By Laurie Higgins
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11.12.19
On Friday Oct. 8, IFI received this strangely kind email from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “investigative reporter” Brett Barrouquere (an email similar, I learned, to one sent to Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies,...