By: Julie Roys – julieroys.com – September 4, 2015 A recent survey found that only 25% of public school parents support Common Core, the controversial national standards for English-language arts and math created in 2009 and currently adopted by 43 states. Part of this lack of enthusiasm likely stems from the frustration some feel over the cumbersome methods required by the...

By: Steve Stockman – October 28, 2019 Persecution of Christians around the world is exploding. The greater tragedy is the sounds of silence from the world. After six million Jews were murdered by the European Axis of Evil, we heard the clarion call of “never again!”- never again will there be a genocide of those who practice their faith. However,...

By: Dr. Jim Denison – denisonforum.org – October 29, 2019 Kayla Mueller was born in Prescott, Arizona. She attended Northern Arizona University, where she graduated in two and a half years with a political science degree. No one who knew Kayla could have imagined the way her life would end or that the US Special Forces operation to capture or...

By: Allen Kim – CNN.com – September 16, 2019 Thinking of sending your “thoughts and prayers” to those affected by tragedy or a natural disaster? Well, not everyone wants them. While Christians value these gestures from religious people, some atheists and agnostics would pay money to avoid them, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...

By Jeannie Law – christianpost.com – September 17, 2019 Reality star Kim Kardashian West was a guest on “The View” Thursday where she spoke about her husband’s religious beliefs and revealed that he sometimes hosts pop-up churches around the country through his music ministry, Sunday Service. “Kanye started this to really heal himself and it was a really personal thing, and...

By: Dr. Jim Denison – denisonforum.org – September 5, 2019 Every day brings more evidence that the church in America and the Western world is on a path to imminent demise: Millennials are leaving by the droves. The number of Americans with no religious commitment is skyrocketing. Churches are dying all around us. The future of America looks far more...

By: Louis Markos – christianitytoday.com – August 19, 2019 In the fall of 2018, I spoke at Mars Hill Academy, a classical homeschooling co-op in Lexington, Kentucky. It began in 1995 and offers classes in Latin, Western civilization, rhetoric, and worldview, as well as English, math, and science. A cynic might have warned me that I would be greeted by insular...

By: Jim Denison – denisonforum.org – August 28, 2019 Christian Moore is an eight-year-old in Wichita, Kansas. On his first day of school this year, he noticed that a fellow classmate named Connor Crites was crying. Christian walked over, took Connor’s hand, and led him into their elementary school. He didn’t know that his new friend is autistic. Christian’s mother took...

By: Nick Bailey – nbcnews.com – August 25, 2019 NORWICH, United Kingdom — When a place of worship has stood for almost a millennium, it would be easy to be skeptical about claims that it now includes a never-before-seen attraction. The huge carnival slide parked in the nave of Norwich’s ancient cathedral looks like it falls into that category. The first to...

By: Joanna Piacenza – morningconsult.com – May 1, 2019 55% of white evangelicals prefer President Donald Trump at the top of the ticket, 16 points lower than the share of Republicans who say the same. 42% of the conservative Christian group said they’ll have less influence in 10 years than they do now, while 23% said they’ll have more. White evangelical Protestants...