What is physician-assisted suicide? What would it mean for Minnesota to legalize it? How can Christians participate in the public debate around this issue, and how might we respond to the legalization of this practice? All these questions deserve our thoughtful consideration and our deep, fervent prayers for the protection of innocent life.
Read MoreSemiquincentennial is sort of an unmusical word, isn’t it? Those seven syllables don’t exactly roll off the tongue. It’s probably the reason why for most of the advertising, merchandising, and conversation about it we have simply abbreviated it to America 250 or the 250th. But we truthfully are marking a really profound event this weekend.
Read MoreFor well over 30 years the school choice movement has been working to empower parents to be in greater control of their children’s educational experience. That time has now arrived. With the passage of the Working Families Tax Cut Act last summer, parents now stand on the brink of a fundamentally new era of educational freedom and opportunity.
Read MoreAn LCMS pastor, who is a friend of mine, often says that he envisions his sermons like a father pulling up a chair to the kitchen table and saying, “Family? We need to talk about something important.” Missouri? We need to talk about In Vitro Fertilization or “IVF.”
Read MoreIt’s 2025, and at long last – after 30 years of hard work and struggle – we appear to have reached a tipping point in the effort to once again acknowledge parents as the primary authority in the educational lives of their children. There have been many important milestones along the way – many judicial, legislative and public opinion victories - that have led to this new and very positive circumstance. But none of these carries the promise of the recently passed Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA).
Read MoreIt’s called “The Johnson Amendment,” and since 1954, it has received criticism from a wide variety of religious folks. Indeed, it has frequently served as a prime example of the degree to which the religious liberty and free speech rights of the Church and her pastors have been unconstitutionally limited.
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