By: Douglas Groothuis – oneplace.com  In the fall of 1976, I bought a medium-sized paperback book with an odd abstract cover in the University of Oregon bookstore in Eugene. I was back in school, trying to get my intellectual bearings as a fledgling and intellectually confused Christian. The book was The God Who Is There: Speaking Christianity into the Twentieth Century by Francis Schaeffer....

By Caleb Parke – FoxNews.com – July 29, 2019 Author Joshua Harris, after announcing the end of his marriage, is now kissing his faith goodbye. Harris, the author of the best-seller “I Kissed Dating Goodbye,” a book he authored in 1997 that he later renounced after shaping purity culture for many millennial believers, revealed that he is stepping back from his faith....

By: Afshin Ziafat – billygraham.org – January 30, 2019 Disowned for Jesus: A Former Muslim’s Journey to Christ I was born in Houston and grew up in a devout Muslim home. My dad was very involved in the Iranian Muslim community. When I was 2 years old, my family moved to Iran, where my parents are from. But when I was 6, the Islamic...

By: Ken Paxton – usatoday.com – March 27, 2019 Texas attorney general: Each state can now decide for itself what type of health care system it wants. It’s a sad commentary that alarms go up among Washington elites when the Trump administration defends the Constitution and holds Congress to its word. That is, after all, what the Department of Justice...

By: Merril Matthews – ipi.org – March 27, 2019 One of the major policy debates of the 2020 presidential race will be “Medicare for All.” It even has its own acronym: M4A. Medicare for All is a euphemism for a government-run, single-payer health care system, in which a government plan replaces private health insurance. Proponents have latched on to the...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – March 26, 2019 The Justice Department has sided with a federal judge in Texas, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans to strike down Barack Obama’s signature legislation: the Affordable Care Act. Hopefully, the Fifth Circuit will agree. If so, the issue will likely go to the U.S....

By: David French – nationalreview.com – March 21, 2019 It’s time to decide. Is the aim of the political wing of the pro-life movement to nibble at the edges of the American abortion culture or to confront it head-on? Iowa has made its choice. So has Kentucky. And today Mississippi joined the growing ranks of American states who have unequivocally...

By: Buckner International – buckner.org – 2019 Buckner International is a ministry dedicated to the transformation and restoration of the lives we serve. We are a Christ-centered organization that delivers redemptive ministry to the most vulnerable from the beginning to the ending of life. Our mission Buckner International transforms the lives of vulnerable children, enriches the lives of senior adults...

By: Alex Berenson – imprimis.hillsdale.edu – January 2019 Seventy miles northwest of New York City is a hospital that looks like a prison, its drab brick buildings wrapped in layers of fencing and barbed wire. This grim facility is called the Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Institute. It’s one of three places the state of New York sends the criminally mentally ill—defendants...

By Heart Song Faith – heartstrongfaith.com – February 2019 2019 HEARTSTRONG FAITH CONFERENCE February 22-23, 2019 FRIDAY 7:00 PM – 9:45 PM AND SATURDAY 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM The HeartStrong Faith Women’s conference is a gathering of women coming together to worship, pray, learn, and ultimately, lead others to Christ. Women will grow and flourish as they root themselves in the...