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President Obama’s faith advisory council recently voted to require churches that receive federal funds to establish separate non-profit corporations as a “necessary means of achieving church-state separation.” Read more »

The Tennessee State Board of Education approved guidelines Thursday on how to teach the Bible in public high schools. Under the new law, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Roy Herron, the state is authorized to create a course for a “nonsectarian, nonreligious academic study of the Bible.” Read more »

Two prominent leaders of the separation of church and state debate recently argued whether it is “alarming” that a self-described para-church ministry has received millions in government funds for its drug treatment program. Teen Challenge, an evangelical Christian recovery program, is at the center of a “church and state” debate. Read more »

President Obama proclaimed Jan. 16 as Religious Freedom Day in the United States in commemoration of a statute passed by America’s forefathers that declared freedom of religion as a natural right of all humanity. Read more »

The Texas State Board of Education has delayed its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that would examine America’s Christian heritage and the role of Christianity in the foundation of our nation. Read more »

Religious and legal experts who usually find themselves on opposite sides of the religious expression in public square debate issued an unprecedented consensus statement this week that details what the current law says about religion in public life. Read more »

There is an update to the story yesterday about the boy who drew a picture of Christ on a cross as a Christmas theme, only to be sent home and told undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Now the school is claiming the boy wasn’t actually suspended and that the drawing in question wasn’t the one the boy drew in school. Read more »

An 8-year-old boy drew a picture of Jesus Christ on the cross when his teacher asked the class to sketch something that reminded them of Christmas. So the school sent him home and required him to undergo a psychological evaluation. What’s wrong with this picture? Read more »

A lot of people in America are very mixed up on religious freedom and the so-called “separation of church and state.” (I say “so-called” because while there is indeed separation of church and state in America, it isn’t what many people have been misled to believe) Read more »

The Lodi, California City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to allow prayers to be said in Jesus’ name before council meetings. The 5-0 vote repeals the city’s current policy requiring prayers to be “non-sectarian and non-denominational.” A new policy allowing uncensored invocations will be developed. Read more »

Hundreds of people joined a rally Tuesday night to support Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School cheerleaders and their right to paint Bible verses on banners. The signs, which the Georgia school football team has run through for years, were banned last week over a complaint that the banners promoted religion. Read more »

The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is announcing the second annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday coming up on September 27. Pulpit Freedom Sunday is part of the ADF Pulpit Initiative, an effort designed to promote and secure the First Amendment rights of churches and pastors to speak the truth in the public square. This freedom has been threatened for decades by an unconstitutional 1954 amendment to the tax code. Read more »

A Kentucky law requiring the state Office of Homeland Security to stress “dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth” was struck down as unconstitutional on Wednesday, even though the Kentucky Constitution itself says, “We, the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties we enjoy…” Read more »

William Wilberforce is best known for his fight to abolish slavery in Britain. He also spearheaded efforts to set up education for indigent children, child labor laws, prison reform, the first society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, Bible societies, and mandatory small pox inoculation, among many others. “To speak of Wilberforce is to speak of biblical worldview in action,” said Chuck Colson. Read more »

Legal groups are urging the Supreme Court to reject the ACLU’s attack on the Mojave Desert Memorial, and their ongoing attempt to sanitize the public square of our Christian heritage. Read more »

The ACLU is once again going to extreme lengths to sanitize America of any sign of her Christian heritage. And the lengths to which they are going to hide the Mojave Cross Memorial display how silly they are in their endeavors. Read more »

John W. Whitehead

Political correctness—a philosophy that discourages diversity of viewpoints—has become a guiding principle of modern society. If someone might be offended, freedom of speech is erased. Nowhere is this more evident than in the schools, especially when religion is involved. Things have gotten so ridiculous that the mere mention of God is enough to [...] Read more »

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post
By Lillian Kwon
Christian Post Reporter
Thu, May. 14 2009 12:54 PM EDT
A Houston-based non-profit foundation that funded a series of pastors conferences in 2006 ahead of Gov. Rick Perry’s re-election did not violate any tax laws and can thus keep its tax-exempt status, the Internal Revenue Service recently ruled.
“This liberal [...] Read more »

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post
By Michelle A. Vu
Christian Post Reporter
Mon, May. 04 2009 04:53 PM EDT
With the annual National Day of Prayer just days away, signs indicate that the White House will not hold a formal event to mark the day.
According to Dan Gilgoff of U.S. News & World Report, the White House [...] Read more »

American Minute from William J. Federer
Beginning APRIL 25, 1789, every session of the U.S. Senate has opened with prayer.
This was a continuation of the Continental Congress’ practice during the Revolution, as Franklin remarked in 1787: “In the beginning of the Contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in [...] Read more »

This has been out for a while, but I just came across this recently.
The video points out the interesting “coincidence” concerning how our education system has gone to pot since we kicked God out of the schools from the 1950s on.
I remember being in grade school in the early 1970s and we still prayed as [...] Read more »