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Montgomery County officials adopted a new policy on Tuesday empowering a citizen committee to review, and potentially remove, library materials at the request of the public ...

Sometime last year, Meagan Clark Saliashvili contacted me about whether I would agree to be interviewed for an article she was writing for Texas Monthly on the growth of Orthodoxy in Texas ... As it turned out, the article was not about the growth of Orthodoxy in Texas at all, but was in fact an extremely biased attempt to paint me, my parish, and other Orthodox Christians as racists, conspiracy theorists, and authoritarians ...

A Texas school teacher is suing her school district, claiming the school's principal violated her First Amendment rights when he reprimanded her for praying on campus ...

In the previous post we examined the main political principles and ideas in Acts chapter 15 which we noted was a paradigm shift in 49AD. The Jerusalem convention of emissaries, senior statesmen and the whole citizen assembly decided that ...

On March 14, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that the Catholic Charities Bureau is not exempt from the state’s unemployment compensation law because the organization isn’t religious ...

State taxpayers funded classes at the University of North Texas that pushed intersectionality and feminism. The university also employs a “Marxist Geographer” and a history professor that used a textbook with a bias against former President Donald Trump ...

Americans have grown less religious over the past couple of decades, and attendance at religious services is down across the country. Of course, some parts of the country are a lot less religious than others ...

Mostly upholding a controversial law with far-reaching impact, judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a father who sued the federal government claiming that long-standing federal protections for teens’ confidential access to ...

The impact of illegal immigration fill our TV screens, crime blotters, and morgues every day. But too few Americans appreciate how lawlessness at the border advances other liberal policies ...

Franklin Graham is preaching in Eagle Pass Wednesday night, his 4th stop in a 10-city evangelistic tour along the southern border. Graham says he's not talking politics, he's sharing the Good News with a region that is hurting ...

With the post-Super Tuesday dust settling, voters must now wait and see how their votes will affect their desired policy changes. School choice was a major sticking point for Republican primary voters in Texas ...

The Levi Strauss Foundation, which is wholly funded by the clothing corporation bearing the same name, donated millions to nonprofits that facilitate or promote abortions, tax forms and public statements show ...

During his State of the Union address today, Joe Biden promised he would sign legislation to kill babies in abortions up to birth if Democrats win complete control of Congress this November ...

The University of Houston (UH) canceled the February 28 opening event and accompanying talk by Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander for the exhibit of her sculpture “Witness” in the Public Art of the University of Houston System collection ...

Radical leftist group Pastors for Texas Children is accused of violating its tax-exempt entity status by engaging in politics. Last week, one concerned PAC filed complaints against the group with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the IRS ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Aylo Global Entertainment, a major pornography distribution company, for violating HB 1181, a Texas law that requires reasonable age verification measures to protect ...

A New Hampshire pastor is facing daily fines of up to $500 because he is holding prayer meetings and Bible studies in his home. And that home happens to be a barn ...

The Yellowhammer State’s highest court is ruling that frozen embryos are legally children under state law. In a ruling issued Friday, Alabama’s Supreme Court declared that “the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies to all unborn children ..."

A new documentary movie by Rob Reiner is now out on the topic of Christian Nationalism. Wikipedia says that Christian Nationalism “primarily focuses on the internal politics of society, such as legislating civil and ...

The Supreme Court declined to hear a sex discrimination case Tuesday, a decision that left one of the justices considering potential implications on the right of religious expression ...

In 2013, author John S. Dickerson wrote about the troubling condition of the American church in his book “The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church and How to Prepare” ...

A church in Bellmead is now a partial construction zone after a driver crashed through the front of its building early Sunday morning. The crash happened just hours before church, so the pastor is grateful that no one was inside ...

The clock is ticking for area school districts as they have two weeks to decide if unlicensed chaplains will be allowed to provide mental health support for them ...

A Texas A&M University (TAMU) program that allows students to minor in LGBT studies has caught the eye of one Texas lawmaker who said the university is “spending state resources” on “liberal indoctrination” ...

Kamala Harris is continuing her abortion celebration tour across America. Next week she is heading to Michigan to celebrate killing babies and will meet with local abortion activists to applaud them for ...

When the deputies of the Kinney County Sheriff’s Dept. are out on patrol, they are surrounded by prayer and God’s Word. Literally. Every patrol car is adorned with a Bible verse ...

The future of the Catholic Church seems bright, and evangelicals now have a new tool to help them find churches that are biblically sound, culturally aware, and legislatively active ...

The National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative watchdog group, has accused Oreo of “grooming children” because of the cookie company’s longtime partnership with PFLAG, the country’s first and largest organization dedicated to ...

A city agency in Austin, Texas invited employees to racially segregated "anti-racist" meetings where "white folks" were asked not to attend a meeting that was only for "people of color" ...

January is known as Divorce Month, when the highest number of U.S. divorce filings occur. I find it ironic that Divorce Month is followed by Valentine’s Day, although with the high rate of second and third marriages and their equally high failure rates, the irony makes sense ...

Nearly a month into his first term in office, Houston Mayor John Whitmire is calling for a merger of the Houston Police Department and the Houston METRO Police ...

All 16 Texas House Republicans seeking re-election who voted to strip education savings accounts from November’s education omnibus bill have drawn at least one primary opponent, and the incumbents have all flexed their fundraising muscles in recent filings ...

Sen. Ted Cruz is raising the alarm about President Joe Biden’s administration partnering with a far-left group demonizing conservatives in its efforts to combat “domestic terrorism” ...

As if one pandemic wasn’t enough. Dr. Ashwin Vasan, health commissioner of New York City, is waiving the white flag. Biden’s non-existent border policies are producing contagious diseases not seen for decades ...

National School Choice Week begins on Sunday, and this year, there’s much to celebrate. In 2023, the school choice movement made more progress expanding education options than ever before ...

In January, politicians highlight Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Meanwhile, an outraged Texas mother is fighting tooth, nail, and claw to raise awareness about the state's justice system's failure to help victims, like her daughter ...

What’s happening at the border is a spiritual battle between good and evil, retired Border Patrol agent Frank Lopez Jr., argues. He and others in law enforcement have combatted crime coming through the border connected to a cartel-connected worship of a “saint of death” ...

President Joe Biden continued his methodical war against people of faith last week when his Department of Health and Human Services issued new regulations rescinding conscience protections for doctors and nurses who are forced by their employers to perform procedures that violate their beliefs ...

Shortly after being sworn in as mayor of Houston, the fourth largest city in America, John Whitmire, started reversing the political logjam that characterized his predecessor’s administration ...

A whistleblower involved in the revelation that Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) has continued to provide “gender-affirming care” to children has been visited by agents of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) ...

Louie Giglio tackled common modern societal beliefs — entitlement, self-determination and personal rights — and contrasted them with the transformative message of the Gospel in a message delivered to thousands of young people at Passion 2024 ...

In a new video montage, the Planned Parenthood abortion business and other abortion clinic representatives are caught on camera admitting that they take teens to other states for secret abortions without their parents’ consent ...

Texas is taking a stand against human trafficking with a prayer. First Lady Cecilia Abbott is spearheading the cause as she announced the kickoff of the fourth annual Week of Prayer to End Human Trafficking starting on January 8 ...

Ever since Dobbs was handed down in June of 2022, and Roe v. Wade overturned, the Biden administration has been ransacking and distorting every available statute of federal law to promote child-killing by other means ...

God sometimes opens a window after closing a door, the adage goes. But in the case of two Waco churches, it’s more of a case of windows, doors and a whole building ...

Texas school boards have already begun to vote on a new measure to allow or prohibit chaplains from volunteering to provide counseling and other services to students ...

The Texas Legislature was unable to pass school choice legislation in 2023 despite continued pressure and support from major political figures. New polling shows that public support remains high when it comes to school choice in the state ...

A majority of students in Texas government schools continue to perform below grade level, according to the latest data released by the Texas Education Agency ...

In its latest assault on institutions that fail to adhere to its ideological bent, the Biden administration just imposed the largest fine in the history of the U.S. Department of Education on Grand Canyon University (GCU) — a school whose motto is ...

After nearly 30 Harris County residents signed up to speak in defense of a long-used contract program that bolsters police patrols, the county’s Office of Budget Management (OMB) Director Daniel Ramos removed his proposed changes from the commissioners court agenda this week ...