House Resolution 1150, the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act of 2015, to amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to improve the ability of the United States to advance religious freedom globally, passed the House Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, April 26. That moves us another step along the path toward action […]
Advocates of traditional family values are calling for a boycott of Target in response to the retail giant’s announcement that they allow transgender people to use the restroom and dressing room that aligns with their preferred gender identity. The other way of saying this is that grown men have unrestricted and no-questions-asked access to bathrooms […]
Today on The Reconnect, we have guest Joel Miller, who served in homeless ministry in Orlando for 10 years. We are thrilled to have his perspective on homelessness. When we pass someone homeless on the street, what is our first thought? I hope they don’t see me? What’s the quickest way I can avoid them? […]
For most of us, if we were to read that a Catholic priest wearing his white robes and rosary was mistaken for a KKK member carrying a whip—and sparked widespread concern of threat in the area— we would ask: “How is that even possible?” Well that happened this week on the campus of Indiana University. […]
“What did he say?” I hear myself ask that question a lot when listening to interviews of Donald Trump. Did I hear that right? Surely he didn’t say that! Did he just say what I think he said? The latest gaffe, if you can call it a gaffe, was on the issue of abortion. He […]
The smaller the world becomes, the more people we know and the longer we live, the greater our awareness of death. We have witnessed executions on foreign sands. We have seen the small lifeless body of a boy on a beach. We felt the national loss of a Supreme Court Justice. Closer to home, two […]
Just because Hillary Clinton would be the first woman President does not necessarily make her the right first woman. And bullying young women to support her solely because of her gender is a losing strategy. Pro-women women have changed since the trailblazing days of their mothers and grandmothers. Pro-women women are now Presidents and CEO’s, […]
America’s first freedom, the freedom of religion, took center stage Wednesday during President Obama’s religious liberty speech at a Muslim mosque in Baltimore. Trumpeting the presence, contribution and value of people of Muslim faith throughout American history, the President encouraged the American public to embrace Muslims today by suggesting that differences in religion do not matter […]
It is not taking long for dystopian fear about Zika to spread. Purveyors of death have descended upon vulnerable pregnant woman and economic threats to entire societies are very real. Those who have been battling in the U.S. for the unborn have been equipped to fight on this new front of the “battle for life.” […]
The Zika virus has South and Central America in a near panic. With no vaccine and no known cure, the fear associated with delivering a baby with severe neurological problems has led to the recommendation that all women of child-bearing age avoid getting pregnant until at least 2018. The Centers for Disease Control say that […]