Recently, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called it child abuse to give children body-altering drugs and life-altering surgery, and Governor Greg Abbott mirrored that objection when he directed state agencies to investigate incidents in which parents are subjecting their children to it. Reacting to that plan, the Biden administration has threatened to pull federal funds [...]
President Joe Biden has called Florida’s new 15-week abortion ban “dangerous.” On Friday, March 5, the President of the United States, a self-professed devout Catholic, tweeted his opposition to the Sunshine State’s new legislation protecting unborn babies. “Last night the Republican-controlled Florida legislature passed a dangerous bill that will severely restrict women’s access to reproductive [...]
Republicans in Oklahoma passed a bill on Wednesday that would prohibit all abortions in the state, except for those done for to save the life of the mother. It relies on private lawsuits to enforce the law, similar to Texas’ legislation. “A physician may not knowingly perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman, unless such [...]
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new clash involving Christian beliefs and the rights of LGBT people. The high court said Tuesday it would hear the case of Colorado-based web designer Lorie Smith. Smith offers graphic and website design services and wants to expand to wedding website services, but she says her religious [...]
Americans’ confidence in groups and institutions has turned downward compared with just a year ago. Trust in scientists and medical scientists, once seemingly buoyed by their central role in addressing the coronavirus outbreak, is now below pre-pandemic levels. Overall, 29% of U.S. adults say they have a great deal of confidence in medical scientists to [...]
Inflation soared over the past year at its highest rate in four decades, hammering America’s consumers, wiping out pay raises and reinforcing the Federal Reserve’s decision to begin raising borrowing rates across the economy. The Labor Department said Thursday that consumer prices jumped 7.5% last month compared with 12 months earlier, the steepest year-over-year increase [...]
A federal appeals court reinstated late Wednesday a Tennessee law provision banning abortions performed due to race, gender, or a Down syndrome diagnosis. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by Tennessee’s attorney general to temporarily allow the law’s ban on certain discriminatory abortions, as abortion providers continue their lawsuit against the [...]
A Christian couple in Oregon isn't out of the woods yet in an anti-discrimination case. Ten years ago, Aaron and Melissa Klein – who ran a small bakery in Salem, Oregon – faced discrimination charges when they declined to bake a cake for a same-gender "wedding" based on their strongly held religious beliefs. The Oregon Bureau [...]
What barriers keep Christians from being part of a discipleship community? For the new book Growing Together: A Three-Part Guide for Following Jesus and Bringing Friends on the Journey, Barna partnered with The Navigators to study how Christians can be and make disciples today. While the majority of Christians experiences some form of relational investment in [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an affirmative action case involving Harvard University, where a group of Asian students are demanding changes to admissions standards after learning the school penalizes them because of their race. The case is Students for Fair Admissions Inc v. President & Fellows of Harvard College. The high court [...]
