Tag Archives: Freedom

Remembering the Gettysburg Address

Posted on November 9, 2024 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

As you know, Lincoln was our first Republican president and served during the entire course of the Civil War. The war ended on April 9, 1865. Lincoln fell to an assassin’s bullet in Ford’s Theatre 5 days later.

Posted in Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality | Tagged 13th Amendment, Abraham Lincoln, Declaration of Independence, Donald Trump, Edward Everett, Emancipation Proclamation, Eric Metaxas, faith, Freedom, General Meade, General Robert E. Lee, Gettysburg Address, Religionless Christianity, repentance, Revolutionary War, Slavery, The Civil War | Comments Off

Faith, Family & Freedom Banquet with Allie Beth Stuckey

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

Save the date for IFI's annual Faith, Family & Freedom Banquet featuring a very special keynote speaker– Allie Beth Stuckey!

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The Global Threat of the WHO Pandemic Agreement

Posted on May 1, 2024 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

Picture this: nations all over the world enter into a binding agreement, not with one another, but with a global governing body that they empower to essentially take over in case of emergency.

Posted in COVID Information Center, Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty | Tagged Chinese Communist Party, Congress, Constitution, COVID–19, dystopian, Frank Gaffney, Freedom, globalism, government, Liberty, President Biden, Rahm Emanuel, Ron Johnson, safety, sovereignty, Tedros Ghebreyesus, United Nations, WHO, World Health Organization | Comments Off

Age Appropriate Doesn’t Mean Banned

Posted on June 1, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

Nothing opens your mind to new worlds and new possibilities better than a book. Stories can communicate ideas, themes, and lessons considerably better than a lecture does. Children love to act out the stories of their favorite characters, adopting their mannerisms and wishing to be them. You probably can think of a book that has impacted you deeply and maybe even encouraged you to change your behavior in some manner.

Posted in Education, Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, next gen, Pornography, Sexuality | Tagged 1984, Age Appropriate Doesn't Mean Banned, All Boys aren’t Blue, Big Brother, book banning, children, Freedom, Gender Queer, George Orwell, Lawn Boy, LGBTQIA agenda, Moms for Liberty, pornography, public schools | Comments Off

Cowardice and the Neutering of America

Posted on October 12, 2021 by Jenna Smith

The great evil in America for over two centuries was slavery and its ugly aftermath. Too many Christians for too long stood passive as Satan attacked the humanity of African Americans. Too few had the courage to do what Wheaton College founder, pastor, and tenacious abolitionist Jonathan Blanchard did. Here is but one example:

During their trip from Cincinnati to Galesburg, in order to observe the Sabbath as a day of rest, the Blanchard family took lodgings in a hotel in slave territory. On that Sabbath morning, just before breakfast, out in the back yard of the hotel, a slave

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Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sexuality | Tagged Charles Spurgeon, civil war, Freedom, Jonathan Blanchard, Mark Robinson, transgenderism | Comments Off

Cherry Pie Day 2020

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Benjamin D. Smith

ICHE Legislative Days, especially Cherry Pie Day, is a proactive effort to remind our legislators--as well as our governor--that homeschoolers are very, very politically active, and we zealously protect our hard-fought-for homeschooling rights. It is a worthwhile investment in our children’s and grandchildren’s lives, as we remember that is much easier to keep our liberties than regain them once they are lost.

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Liberals Against Freedom of Conscience

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Benjamin D. Smith

Why is it considered "liberal" to compel others to say or fund things they don't believe? That's a question raised by three Supreme Court decisions this year. And it's a puzzling development for those of us old enough to remember when liberals championed free speech — even advocacy of sedition or sodomy — and conservatives wanted government to restrain or limit it.

Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty | Tagged ACLU, Adrian Wooldridge, Brexit, Donald Trump, Freedom, Friedrich Hayek, Janus v. American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, Liberalism, Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Opinion, SCOTUS, Stephen Carter, U.S. Constitution | Comments Off

Speak Freely – So Long as you Agree with Me?

Posted on February 25, 2015 by David E Smith

Is it too much to ask people to listen politely to those with whom they disagree? I hope not.

Posted in Religious Liberty | Tagged Civil Discourse, Freedom, Liberal Education | Comments Off