EDITORIALS

How School Choice Can Flourish in Rural America

Jude Schwalbach / Emily Maxson | January 25, 2019  To best serve the diverse needs of rural areas, lawmakers should establish more educational opportunities. (Photo: Matt Hoover Photo/Getty Images) (The Daily Signal) – In “No Longer Forgotten: The Triumphs and Struggles of Rural Education in America,” 13 authors deliver unique perspectives on

Abortion workers helped mother force her daughter have an abortion

Sarah Terzo | January 24, 2019 (Live Action News) – Pro-abortion activists claim that abortion is all about giving women choices. But many minors are forced or pressured into having abortions. In one study, researchers examined cases where the minor did not tell her parents about the pregnancy, but the parents found out some other

Rediscovering Your Joy

Ben Godwin | January 24, 2019 (Barb Wire) – For many Christians serving God is a duty when it should be a delight. Billy Sunday said, “If you have no joy, there’s a leak in your Christianity somewhere.” Indeed, Christians should be the happiest people on the planet. A happy

We Had an Abortion. It Wasn’t My Body, but It Was My Baby.

Garrett Kell | January 22, 2019 “We need a generation of young men who will not walk away when they get a woman pregnant or pressure a woman to end their child’s life,” writes Garrett Kell. (Photo: skaman306/Getty Images) (The Daily Signal) – When I was 19, I got a friend

Choose Your Path, But Be Realistic

If you plant weeds you are insane if you think you can reap bananas, apples or oranges. You did not plant bananas, apples or oranges. Yet, too many people live their lives that way. They live by all the wrong principles, compared to those established by God, and expect to reap the same outcome as if they were living life right-side up instead of upside down. Can you go to the bank and withdraw cash if you haven’t deposited money into your account?

Games People Play When They’re Defending False Positions

David Mann | January 21, 2019 (Barb Wire) – In our time there is no shortage of controversial matters. It’s easy to think of several issues about which many people have one view, and a similarly large number of people have exactly the opposite view. Given that, it should be

Whatever Happened to Science?

Dave Daubenmire | January 21, 2019 (Barb Wire) – The original Webster’s Dictionary, the 1828 version, defined science as: “In a general sense, knowledge, or certain knowledge; the comprehension or understanding of truth or facts by the mind. The science of God must be perfect.” (All Emphasis mine.) To “know”, again from the scholarly Webster, is

Waging War on Worry

Ben Godwin | January 18, 2019 (BarbWire) – “Worry is a futile thing, somewhat like a rocking chair, although it occupies your time, it doesn’t get you anywhere” (author unknown). In His famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus warned all worrywarts with the phrase “Take no thought” (KJV) four times. Modern versions

A tale of two speeches at Wheaton

Steve Jordahl | January 16, 2019 (One News Now) – Family advocates and conservatives are concerned about Wheaton College after student leaders sent a letter to the student body criticizing on-campus comments by a black pro-life speaker. In November, Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation – at the invitation of one of

Abortion is our Modern-Day Holocaust

The mass murder of unborn babies in America shows no signs of stopping any time soon. Since decriminalizing abortion in January 22, 1973 by the U.S. Supreme Court, close to 61 million unborn babies have been mercilessly slaughtered in their mother’s womb, the place where they should be the safest.

Conceived in rape and incest, blessed by adoption, and born with purpose

Kristi Hofferber | January 10, 2019 (Live Action) – In 1991, when I was only thirteen, my parents read in the local newspaper that a woman was prosecuting her father for 20+ years of sexual abuse, resulting in six pregnancies. The article explained that the first child was miscarried by physical abuse,

The Lie of Abortion

Shortly, we will be approaching the forty-sixth anniversary of the most horrendous decision our country has ever made; the decriminalization of abortion nationwide in the United States. At the time of this writing the number of abortions the counter reports are 60,957,074.9 in the U.S. since January 22, 1973. This is more than mind boggling it is a human tragedy of epic proportions, needless to say, we will not escape the consequences.