![AFA to Duggars: We’ve Got Your Back AFA to Duggars: We’ve Got Your Back](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/dfamily.jpg)
A prominent pro-family group is urging the public to take action on behalf of the Duggar family, who the group says is under a "malicious attack" because of their uncompromising, Christ-centered stand on several social issues.
![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...
![The Crucifixion of Pastor Scott Lively The Crucifixion of Pastor Scott Lively](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/lively.jpg)
“Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.” ~John 15:20
Christians, pastors, take heed. In...
![Christian School’s ROTC Under Attack Christian School’s ROTC Under Attack](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/660-Wheaton-Rolling-Thunder.jpg)
11.14.14
Do Christian colleges have the right to require that ROTC officers be followers of the Christian faith? That’s the crux of a controversy surrounding the ROTC program at Wheaton College, one of the nation’s most prominent Christian schools.
![Atheist Tells Christians to Keep Faith In the ‘Closet’ Atheist Tells Christians to Keep Faith In the ‘Closet’](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/FaithinCloset.png)
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Dr. Michael L. Brown
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11.14.14
Writing in response to my article “Secularism Declares Open War On Religious Faith,” an atheist has assured his readers that there is no such war and that, more importantly, in order to avoid conflict with the larger society, I should...
![Pastors Don’t Need to Enter Politics — They’re Already in it Pastors Don’t Need to Enter Politics — They’re Already in it](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Pastors-Politics-and-the-Gospel1.jpg)
11.11.14
A friend is encouraging pastors to run for political office. Like everyone, he’s worried about America’s future, and he’d like to see more experienced Christian leaders in public office. It’s a good ol’ American tradition that goes back to the Founding, and it will bear fruit and frustration, generate success and cynicism, in roughly equal measure.
![Natural Marriage Advocate Goes on Trial in Canada for “Hate Speech” Violation Natural Marriage Advocate Goes on Trial in Canada for “Hate Speech” Violation](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/peter-labarberacan.png)
By
Monte Larrick
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11.11.14
In the video below, Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality gives an update on his court case in which he was indicted for taking a pro-family stand in Canada.
On April 10, 2014, LaBarbera was denied entrance into...
![President Obama vs. Franklin Graham on Islam President Obama vs. Franklin Graham on Islam](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/islam.jpg)
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Dr. Michael L. Brown
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11.10.14
During a 2009 interview on France’s Canal+TV channel that is just now being reported widely, President Barack Obama claimed that Americans needed to be better educated on Islam and that, if we compute the total number of Muslims in America,...
![No Church, No Freedom No Church, No Freedom](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/no-freedom.jpg)
Regular readers have read John Stonestreet and me refer to religious freedom as the “first freedom.” You probably think that’s another way of saying that it’s the most important freedom.
Well, it is. But it’s also the source of all...
![Secularism Declares Open War on Religious Faith Secularism Declares Open War on Religious Faith](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/anti-christian-america.jpg)
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Dr. Michael L. Brown
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10.30.14
In case you didn’t know it, if you are a conservative Christian, you are just like Boko Haram and ISIS. At least, that’s what the secularists are saying. More absurd still, they actually believe this.
Of course, secularism has been...
![Defending Churches: ADF Challenges Government Assaults on Religious Freedom Defending Churches: ADF Challenges Government Assaults on Religious Freedom](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ADFDefendsChurches.jpg)
10.24.14
Written by Allen Sears
I recently wrote to invite you to enlist your pastor to participate in our seventh annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday, October 5, and your response has been phenomenal. More than 1,800 pastors from all 50 states plus...
![Pulpit Freedom participation exceeds 1,800 pastors, continues through Election Day Pulpit Freedom participation exceeds 1,800 pastors, continues through Election Day](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/EmailHeaderPFS.png)
10.10.14
More than 1,800 pastors in all 50 states plus Puerto Rico have participated so far in the Alliance Defending Freedom seventh annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday event, which began this year on Oct. 5.
![One Generation Away from Losing Our Freedom? One Generation Away from Losing Our Freedom?](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Ronald-Reagan-Freedome.jpg)
In 1967 Ronald Reagan said we’re never more than one generation away from losing our freedom. A new documentary shows why he was right.
![The Magical Land of Progressitopia The Magical Land of Progressitopia](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Progressitopia.jpg)
There once was a land, a magical land, with a chicken in every pot. And in this land, which was called Progressitopia, there were two peoples. There were those who saw the world as it was, and there were those...