Tag Archives: America
Faith, Family, and Community Boost Fertility Rates
Faith, family, and community matter! New research links active faith and supportive relationships to higher birth rates. Children are blessings from God. Let’s celebrate new life, encourage young families, and build a culture that welcomes children.
Posted in Culture/Family/Marriage, Faith
Tagged America, fertility rate, Institute for Family Studies, Jason S. Carroll, Lyman Stone, Marriage, Peter Foreshaw Brookes
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The Truth About Christopher Columbus
Tearing down Columbus statues is easy. Understanding history takes work. IFI examines the explorer’s Christian faith and challenges today’s popular narrative. Before accepting the slogans, take a closer look.
Posted in Faith, Islam & Sharia; Terrorism, Religious Liberty
Tagged Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, America, Carib, Christopher Columbus, King Ferdinand, Muslim, Natives, Pope Pius II, Queen Isabella, Spain, Taino
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Child Trafficking in America Often Begins at Home
Most Americans think child trafficking is done by strangers in vans or overseas labor rings. The horrifying reality in our own country is that it often begins at home. Family members facilitate 44% to 60% of identified child sex trafficking cases in the U.S., with addiction frequently driving the abuse. We have to shatter the false stereotypes if we are ever going to protect the most vulnerable.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Federal
Tagged America, Bureau of Justice Statistics, child sex trafficking, child trafficking, church, Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative, familial trafficking, Haiti, human trafficking, India, National Human Trafficking Hotline, Nigeria, restavèk children
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The Sacrifice of Others
Every society sacrifices something. The question is: who gets sacrificed? When a culture rejects God's design, it's often children, families, and the innocent who pay the price.
A Minority’s Miracle: 250 Years of American Exceptionalism
Two hundred and fifty years ago, on July 4, 1776, a small group of men — educated, propertied, and fully aware of what they risked — pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to take the first step toward founding something the world had never seen: a nation grounded in the conviction that rights come from God, not from government.
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged America, American Revolution, Andrew Walder, Bastille, Bolsheviks, Committee of Public Safety, Congress, Declaration, Declaration of Independence, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Deutsche Welle, Fidel Castro, Freedom, French Revolution, Hamilton, Jefferson, John Adams, John Hancock, Lenin, Liberty, Madison, Mao Zedong, Marx, Napoleon Bonaparte, Patrick Henry, Reign of Terror, Robespierre, Samuel Adams, Sons of Liberty, Stalin, The Black Book of Communism, Virginia House of Burgesses
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Law Is Not Downstream From Culture
While libertarians argue the government should only stop people from harming each other, Scripture paints a deeper picture. From Moses to Paul, the law has always been a teacher. So when we legalize things like same-sex “marriage” or drug use, we’re not just permitting behavior—we’re instructing a nation. What are we teaching America to believe?
Posted in Faith
Tagged America, Biblical worldview, Christianity, Culture, faith, law, Old Testament, torah
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Greatness in the Workplace
Judging by the frequent surveys of employees in the workplace who seem unhappy in their jobs, you’d think companies would make some serious changes. This does not account for the fact that there are perpetual “grumpies" who wish work itself would go away. There are plenty of those!
Posted in Culture/Family/Marriage
Tagged America, Arthur Andersen LLP, John Blumberg, workplace
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Don’t Leave Home Without It…REALLY
As if we needed it, the Department of Homeland Security posted this reminder on April 12th:
Posted in Federal
Tagged America, citizenship, David Wilkerson, Department of Homeland Security, Dr. Tim LaHaye, Hal Lindsey, Jerry Jenkins, Mary Stewart Relfe, passport, Real ID
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Be Careful What You Wish For!
If you are from another planet, you may not know that Christianity is under siege in America.
Posted in Faith, Religious Liberty
Tagged Allan Bloom, America, Christianity, Constitution, George Washington, John Adams, Noah Webster, religion
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The Brilliance of the Electoral College
After the signing of the Constitution in September 1787, Elizabeth Willing Powel asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Posted in Federal, Religious Liberty
Tagged America, Benjamin Franklin, Constitution, Electoral College, Elizabeth Willing Powel
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Separation of Church and State
I heard of a man who was tired of having gasoline stolen from his garage, so he poured sugar into his gas can and waited. Sure enough, a few days later he heard there was a young man from the neighborhood looking for a new engine. Gasoline engines are not designed to burn sugar!
Posted in Culture/Family/Marriage, Education, Faith, Federal, Religious Liberty
Tagged America, Baptists, Church and State, Constitution, James Madison, John Adams, Rev. John Leland, Thomas Jefferson
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The Incredible Shrinking Me
We are all infected from birth with an insatiable desire to be somebody. Even shyness is but an ironic twist on that desire. The Scriptures call it “the pride of life,” and names it as one of three categories under which all sins fall. Our hunger to be recognized or known colors everything we do.
Posted in Culture/Family/Marriage, Faith, Religious Liberty
Tagged America, Christianity, Culture, God, Karl Marx, pride, Scott Carey, The Incredible Shrinking Man, utopia
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Choose You This Day: Part 2
The atheistic Left began their assault on America over seventy years ago. Their progress was quite slow in the beginning, and one must give them credit for their determination. They have not quit to this day! A principal actor in this effort has been the Communist Party USA, but it is only one of numerous Leftist groups seeking to divide and destroy this great nation (They all lean Marxist).
Posted in Culture/Family/Marriage, Faith, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality
Tagged Abortion, America, Assisted Suicide, Atheism, Christianity, faith, Left, Marxism, pregnancy
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Christian, Do Your Duty: Vote!
Every American citizen has, among other things, the right and responsibility to vote. If too many fail to take this responsibility seriously, it allows for a few, with bad intentions, to transform the state into an oligarchy or dictatorship!
Posted in Culture/Family/Marriage, Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Religious Liberty
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, America, children, citizen, Culture, duty, elections, family, John Wycliffe, Marriage, Ten Commandments, U.S. Constitution, Voting
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