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![Religion, the Great Economic Engine Religion, the Great Economic Engine](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/daily_commentary_09_23_16-516x260.jpg)
Guess who has the world’s 15th largest economy, right between Russia and Australia? American religion. Yep.
![Bathrooms, Biology and Federal Overreach Bathrooms, Biology and Federal Overreach](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Bathrooms.jpg)
Was everyone who lived before 2015 an unenlightened bigot? Recent statements by this administration may give you that impression.
![NBA, NFL Choose Sides in Culture War Battles NBA, NFL Choose Sides in Culture War Battles](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/nbanflmoney.jpg)
The NFL and the NBA are tackling issues having nothing to do with football or basketball, and they’re putting a full court press on our freedom.
![ISIS Attacks in Paris ISIS Attacks in Paris](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ISIS-Attacks-in-Paris-516x318.jpg)
Friday’s attack in Paris, when ISIS terrorists attacked a concert hall, a soccer stadium, and a neighborhood known for its cafes, killing at least 129 people and wounding another 350, was the second wave of terror launched against the City...
![Redefining Marriage Redefines Parenthood Redefining Marriage Redefines Parenthood](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/hands.jpg)
Redefining marriage doesn’t just redefine marriage. It also redefines parenthood. Just ask the kids.
![You Really Want Us to Keep Our Faith to Ourselves? You Really Want Us to Keep Our Faith to Ourselves?](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/KeepYourFaithtoYourself.png)
Growing numbers of voices are telling Christians “Keep your views to yourself!” “Stay out of the public square!” Well, what if we did?
Frank Capra’s classic Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” showed a despairing George Bailey, played by Jimmy...
![Indiana’s RFRA: The Smear Campaign Against Mike Pence and Religious Freedom Indiana’s RFRA: The Smear Campaign Against Mike Pence and Religious Freedom](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/o-MIKE-PENCE-facebook.jpg)
Even before this year’s NCAA “Final Four” Basketball Championship in Indianapolis was set, much of the media’s attention had already pivoted to what one pundit called “the nightmare [looming] in Indiana.”
The “nightmare” being referred to was the new Indiana...
![Why We Shouldn’t Take “The Marriage Pledge” Too Soon Why We Shouldn’t Take “The Marriage Pledge” Too Soon](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Signing_certificates.png)
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...
![Respectable Barbarism Respectable Barbarism](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/abortion2.jpg)
We’ve all been shocked by the barbarism we’ve seen committed in the name of Islam. But what about the respectable barbarism we see around us every day?
![Gambling, Drugs, and Odd Political Bedfellows Gambling, Drugs, and Odd Political Bedfellows](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Drugs_Gambling.jpg)
What do legalized gambling and legalized pot have in common? They fill government coffers and fuel social pathologies -- all in the name of personal freedom. I’ll explain...
![Miley Cyrus and the Moral Gag Reflex Miley Cyrus and the Moral Gag Reflex](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Miley-Cyrus.jpg)
Looking at culture, it’s tempting to give up in despair. As the dad of little girls, for example, when I see the relentless objectification of women by celebrities such as Miley Cyrus, I’m tempted to think that any attempt in what William Wilberforce called a “reformation of manners” is futile. It seems that instead, in the words of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, we have to “define deviance down.”