I serve in Mobile, Alabama, a city that is scarred by its racial history. My city is where the last slave ship landed, and the last black man was lynched. Yet, I have a great hope that our past does not determine our future and that God is capable of raising up a diverse church …
Continue...Today, President Biden will deliver his second State of the Union address. The State of the Union (SOTU) gives the president the opportunity to report to Congress and the American people on the current condition of the United States and provides a policy vision for the upcoming legislative year. Unlike last year, Biden is delivering …
Continue...Everywhere we look, it seems that many of our long-held freedoms are being challenged. Whether it’s a preborn child’s right to life, an employee’s right to receive religious accommodations at work, or the right of everyone to exercise free speech, new lawsuits are filed daily that threaten to chip away, or eliminate altogether, a subset …
Continue...A Christian baker in Colorado lost an appeal last week in his legal fight in the case involving his rejection of a request for a birthday cake celebrating a gender transition. What’s the background? In June 2017, Autumn Scardina called Masterpiece Cakeshop to order a birthday cake, which would, according to the court filings, also …
Continue...Since the fall, people build culture on the basis of many varied and competing authorities. Gone are the simple days of Genesis 1 and 2. Now the cultural canvas is stained with sin, and until eternity human culture will not perfectly reflect the will of God. This is why our response to culture is so …
Continue...In his Gettysburg address, President Abraham Lincoln described the American system of government as a “government of the people, by the people, [and] for the people”—a unique experiment in world history. But it’s an experiment founded on the understanding, as John Adams and James Madison both articulated, that the people of whom, for whom, and …
Continue...As a pastor, father, and follower of Christ, I have often found myself with a heavy heart when I think and pray about abortion. I’m saddened. I’m sickened. I’m burdened for the life of preborn children who are precious in the sight of God. And I have a deep conviction that there’s more that I …
Continue...Public policy advocacy is one of the primary ways that the ERLC fulfills its ministry in the public square. We recently released our 2023 Public Policy Agenda, which outlines more than three dozen policy issues that will shape our work in Washington, D.C., this year. What will make advocacy challenging? The first session of the …
Continue...We didn’t need to see it. The sorrow expressed by law enforcement officials. The pleas from community leaders to not riot in response. The labels of “appalling” and “inhumane” used to describe the footage. All of these comments told us what we were about to see would be revolting. They were right. Video footage from …
Continue...A nurse practitioner in Texas has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that CVS Pharmacy violated her religious liberty. What’s the background? Since 2015, Robyn Strader has served as a nurse practitioner at a CVS MinuteClinic in Keller, Texas. Because of her religious beliefs (the lawsuit identifies her as a Christian and “longtime member of a …
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