A state-level, 3-judge panel ruled IML does not violate any laws, concluding the funds benefit the students and parents at private schools, not the schools themselves. In addition, the ruling noted the state has an interest “to educate children, regardless of where they attend school” and thus children attending private schools shouldn’t be barred from... Continue Reading

As a millennial, an evangelical, and a Southern Baptist, I’m passionate about a vibrant civic pluralism. Our differences should not be ignored for the sake of false unity. But the fractured values divide in America can’t persist healthily at the rate we’re going. Now more than ever, we need courage, civility, and a commitment for... Continue Reading

As we increasingly read on screens, our reading habits have adapted to skim text rather than really absorb the meaning. A 2006 study found that people read on screens in an “F” pattern, reading the entire top line but then only scanning through the text along the left side of the page. This sort of... Continue Reading

The campaign is part of HRC’s Project One America, an initiative announced this spring to win support for the LGBT agenda in Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi. HRC is spending $8.5 million on the project and says All God’s Children will cost an initial $310,000. A study commissioned by HRC and cited in their campaign fact... Continue Reading

A typical knee-jerk reaction to bad news is to blame the messenger.  And if World had been malicious in its intent, biased in its reporting, and taunting in its editorializing, then we’d all have had cause for complaint.  However, reporting bad news is not, in and of itself, bad or wrong.   Across most of the journalistic... Continue Reading

“The city will move to compel documents from the plaintiffs who filed this lawsuit and who have refused to produce any documents in response to the city’s requests,” lawyers claimed in a court document filed Friday. The city’s lawyers pledge to refocus all of their pressure on the plaintiffs, rather than other petition organizers, according... Continue Reading

Studies report that around 90 per cent of children between eight and 16 have watched porn online, and about half do it regularly. Parents and schools worry about party drugs but the fact that boys aged 12 to 17 are the largest consumer group for this multibillion-dollar industry suggests that porn – or the dopamine... Continue Reading

“This is all about the fight to save families. Enormous issues are at stake. What could be more important than the rights of mums and dads to bring up their children how they see fit, not being dictated to by the heavy-hand of meddling and interfering politicians and their army of taxpayer-funded state monitors?”  ... Continue Reading

The report’s authors interviewed many escaped kidnapping victims, witnesses, social workers, religious leaders, journalists, and others experts. The report confirmed female hostages experienced forced marriages, sexual abuse including rape, beatings and other violence, servitude, and even compulsory participation in military operations.   (WNS)–Although the Nigerian government recently claimed Boko Haram would release the 219 Chibok... Continue Reading

One witness recalled how a crowd gathered as a woman in her fifties who used to sell women’s underwear, clothes and nail polish shouted outside the Falluja Islamic State court, which rules on everything from crimes to disputes between neighbors. The woman was heading to the court to argue she should be allowed to walk... Continue Reading