Religion | Religious News - www.mreligion.com

Work as Service at Wolfgang Puck Express

On a return trip from summer camp, Michael Hess’s young son was stuck at Chicago O’Hare airport on a four-hour layover. Having run out of his spending money, he soon grew hungry and called his Dad for help. His father’s mended solution: “go to any of the sit-down restaurants and ask if his dad could give them a credit card over the phone.” His son tried it, and everyone turned him down. “None would even try to figure out a...

Interview: George Gilder on ‘Knowledge and Power’

At , Jerry Bowyer interviews George Gilder on his new book Knowledge and Power (HT: AOI Observer). The long Q&A, titled “George Gilder Has A Very Big, Economy Boosting Idea” is very much worth a read. Here’s a snip: Jerry: “So the market system is the operating system at best, but it’s not the user. That the entrepreneur uses an operating system called the market economy: there’s hardware to it, there’re rails and canals and buildings and factories; there’s software...

How Does Your State Rank on Human Trafficking Laws?

Does your state have the basic legal framework in place bat human trafficking, punish trafficker, and supports survivors? The Polaris Project recently released their 2013 State Ratings on Human Trafficking Laws, which examines the progress states have made in passing legislation bat both labor and sex trafficking. According tothe report: 39 states passed new laws to fight human trafficking in the past yearAs of July 31, 2013, 32 states are now rated in Tier 1 (7+ points), up from 21...

Was ‘Little House on the Prairie’ a Libertarian Fable?

Was Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series of children’s books written as an anti-New Deal fable? The Wilder family papers suggest they were: From the publication of the first book in 1932, the series was immediately popular. And, at a time when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was introducing the major federal initiatives of the New Deal and Social Security as a way out of the Depression, the Little House books lulled children to sleep with the opposite...

Obamacare’s ‘Visiting Program’ or Violation Of Privacy?

The Gateway Pundit reports today that a provision in Obamacare’s Affordable Care Act allows for what the government is calling the “Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Visiting Program.” What does this mean? The program is designed to award monetary grants to states that have “modest” home visiting programs currently, and would like to expand those programs. The goal, purportedly, is to increase the health of mothers and young children and things like “developing a family-centered approach to home-visiting.” es from...

Virtuous Bribery? Care for Prisoners in the Early Church

St. Ignatius of Antioch was martyred at the jaws of wild beasts in the Roman colosseum sometime around 110 AD. In her historical study of wealth and poverty in the early Church, Loving the Poor, Saving the Rich, Helen Rhee offers the following interesting historical tidbit with regards to how early Christians were able to minister to their imprisoned brothers and sisters who awaited martyrdom: Bribing the prison guards, which must have cost a certain amount, features frequently enough in...

Private Virtue and Public Speech

Sometimes we are not aware of the foolishness of our private speech until our words go public. This is one of the morals of the story of Philadelphia Eagle’s receiver Riley Cooper’s n-word slip. In a video taken at a Kenny Chesney concert in June, Cooper became frustrated that an African-American security guard would not allow him backstage. With a beer in his hand Cooper responded, “I will jump this fence and fight every n***ger here, bro.” Cooper’s gaffe serves...

RELIGION & LIBERTY

Sunday Silence: Gateway Church Doesn’t Tell Congregation About Historic Abuse Allegations

　　Gateway Church did not address allegations of past abuseor moral failureby its senior pastor, Robert Morris, when it gathered to worship this weekend, just a couple days after a woman who said he molested her starting at age 12 in the 1980s shared her account online. 　　The Southlake, Texasbased megachurch made a last-minute change so that its executive pastor, Kemtal...

May 2, 2026

Robert Morris Resigns from Gateway Following Past Abuse Allegations

　　Gateway Church founder and senior pastor Robert Morris has resigned, and his Texas megachurch is launching an investigation into allegations of abuse from 35 years ago. 　　Morrisa former advisor to President Trump and leader of one of the largest nondenominational churches in the countryis leaving after an Oklahoma woman, Cindy Clemishire, shared a story of being molested by the pastor...

May 2, 2026

East Asians Leave Childhood Religion Most in World, But Remain Spiritual

　　The rate of religious conversion in East Asia is among the highest in the world: Half of adults in Hong Kong and South Korea have left the religion they were brought up in for another religion or no religion. 　　Among Christians, substantially more adults in those two places left the faith than those who converted to Christianity. 　　The region also...

May 2, 2026

While There’s Still Time

　　Weekend, June 15, 2024 　　While There’s Still Time 　　He did what was pleasing in the Lord’s sight and followed the example of his ancestor David. He did not turn away from doing what was right. (2 Chronicles 34:2 NLT) 　　Mark Twain said, “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have...

May 2, 2026

A Roadmap—If We Want It

　　In the course of my work examining the original meaning of the Second Amendment, I have often had cause to sift through some of the great legal textbooks of the past. Among these, I count such efforts as A View of the Constitution of the United States of America by William Rawle, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States...

May 2, 2026

The Continuing Decline of the Private

　　Union representation in the private sector, which has been determined by employee choice in secret ballot elections conducted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) since 1935, has fallen precipitously in recent decades. This is due in part to the decline of traditional union strongholds—manufacturing and heavy industry—in union-friendly states such as Michigan and Ohio, the large-scale siting of auto...

May 2, 2026

Our Sin and the Holiness of God

　　Our Sin and the Holiness of God 　　Weekly Overview: 　　Living an unveiled lifestyle is the way in which we experience the fullness of what’s available to us in our restored relationship with God. It’s a powerful lifestyle of faith, direct encounters with our heavenly Father, and life transformation. It’s when we live our lives in light of the perfect sacrifice...

May 2, 2026

Are You Serving Your Spouse Emotional Leftovers?

　　Are You Serving Your Spouse Emotional Leftovers? 　　By Jen Ferguson 　　A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. – Proverbs 11:25 　　Sometimes, having leftovers is perfect. It means less-than-normal dinner prep, one less day to have to plan out a full meal. It means more time spent doing other things that need doing (or relaxing!). And sometimes,...

May 2, 2026

Carry It on to Completion

　　Carry It on to Completion 　　By Michelle Lazurek 　　“…being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 1:6 　　As an author of fourteen years, I'm no stranger to editors who make suggestions or changes to my manuscript. As this was my 14th...

May 2, 2026

Died: Disgraced Southern Baptist Leader Paul Pressler

　　The things that Paul Pressler did in private changed the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) radically and irreversibly. 　　In private, in a French caf in New Orleans in 1967, Pressler planned the takeover of the largest Protestant group in America with Baptist college president Paige Patterson. He came up with the political strategy for the conservative resurgence. 　　In private, in an...

May 2, 2026