Buckle up – I’ve got some hot-off-the-press statistics that will make you smile or at least give you a flicker of hope in this crazy world. The latest Gallup poll just dropped, and for once, it’s not another gut-punch to biblical values.

The American Miracle: Our Nation Is No Accident is a docu-drama that will be released nationally in over 1000 theaters on June 9, 10, and 11 as a Fathom Entertainment and Heroic Pictures release. This movie is inspired by Michael Medved’s best-selling book, The American Miracle – Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic, which tells the forgotten story of God’s providential hand in our country’s founding.

America has scrubbed almost every hint of religion from the public square. Prayer is gone from public schools. The Ten Commandments are taken out of courthouses. But one display of religion has been spared the axe: legislative prayer. 

My husband and I are a couple of weeks out from meeting our daughter and we could not be more excited. As we prepare to become parents, we are already becoming watchful of the very real dangers that our children will face in the day and age in which we live.

Hey…what’s your sign? I’m a Libra. You know what THAT means…? Absolutely nothing!

The Swedish Parliament, called the Riksdag, recently shocked the world by passing a new law which bans OnlyFans, one of the most popular pornographic sites in the entire world.

At IFI, we seek to raise awareness of and address cultural and political trends here in Illinois and throughout the nation. An increasing number of these trends pose a threat to human dignity, endangering the lives of image-bearers of the living God from conception to natural death.

Deeds, whether good or bad, must have consequences. Bad deeds must be punished.

There has been an intentional effort underway for several decades to bring down the West. The effort is not an open, direct attack. Rather, it involves eroding the foundations of our culture, eating away at the supports, and corroding the superstructure. The attack is indirect.

George Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement greatly affected the respect and support that police officers across the nation receive.

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! 

“Obscenity isn’t protected by the First Amendment, but hazy and unenforceable legal definitions have allowed extreme pornography to saturate American society and reach countless children.” – Mike Lee

Amid a major push to “protect” children from parents who refuse to “affirm” gender confusion in children, yet another government school in Colorado is in the spotlight for “transitioning” and “grooming” yet another innocent child.

How is it that our elected officials can be so wrong so often? Take Senate Bill 100, introduced and passed as Public Act 99-0456 in 2015, which was intended to eliminate the so-called school-to-prison pipeline by eliminating the disparate discipline of minority students.

It is with fear and trepidation that I write this piece. The backlash could be intense – the resistance could be full bore. So what is my topic? A hot-potato issue like abortion or transgendersim, or simply religion and politics that gets so many folks so fully worked up? No, I want to discuss things like AI and ChatGPT and so on, especially in terms of believers using such devices for the work of the Christian ministry.