Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago provided Chicago-area school districts with training documents advising teachers to promote a "kid friendly website for gender affirming gear" and an "LGBTQ friendly sex shop for teens," per a report from Christopher Rufo, a City Journal contributing editor. Rufo, who is also a senior fellow at Manhattan Insititute, reported that middle and high school teachers and administrators viewed the documents as part of professional development training. An Aug. 31 tweet shows that materials on the website, called "FtM Essentials," are designed to make biological females who identify as male appear more masculine by giving the impression that they have male genitalia, or what the website refers to as a "realistic bulge." The site also sells "binders" designed to enable trans-identified biological females to hide their breasts, with one presentation shown to a Chicago-area district suggesting that children 13 years old and younger can obtain chest binders with parental permission. Read more.

The Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the Virginia Circuit Court for the County of Prince William on behalf of Paige Casey, a nurse practitioner who alleges CVS illegally fired her for refusing to distribute contraceptives. The lawsuit contends that CVS wrongfully refused Casey's request for an exemption to a policy requiring MinuteClinic staff to dispense contraception and abortion-inducing drugs and then fired her for not following the policy. Read more.

Wallace B. Henley writes about Houston pastor Ed Young's August 28 sermon rebuking progressivism and the politicians who promote and apply such philosophies. Henley compares Young's statements to elders sitting at the gates of ancient cities, writing, "Pastors are needed in the 'gates' more than ever because most of the burning issues of our times deal with the concerns they seek to address: definition of good and evil, morality, sin and righteousness, justice, sexuality, marriage and family, free speech, the content of education and the role of parents in their children’s schooling." Read more.

Dr. Pamela Prince Pyle, a Board-Certified Internal Medicine physician, discusses visiting a therapist to address her feelings of depression. She describes how she was initially unsure about therapy but that seeing Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) for people without reported depression versus those with depression ultimately led to her willingness to work through a book on mindfulness that has helped her learn to retrain her brain to process negative emotions in a new light. Read more.

How did you feel after hearing that Roe v Wade was overturned? Amid the many reactions, what has been so shocking is how many self-identifying Christians have publicly shamed other Christians for celebrating the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Read more.

Jeremy Boland, an assistant principal at Cos Cob Elementary School of Greenwich, Conn., has been placed on leave following the release of an undercover video from Project Veritas that shows Boland describing how he refuses to hire conservatives or Catholics. In the video, Boland states, "[I]f they're Catholic [or] conservative …You don't hire them" and goes on to assert, "You're teaching [children] how to think. That's it. It doesn't matter what they think about. If they think about it in a logical, progressive way, that becomes their habit." Read more.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has been vocal in his support for school vouchers and parents' ability to send children to the school of their choosing, has faced criticism from former Congressmen Beto O'Rourke, the democratic candidate for Texas governor. In a July speech, O'Rourke claimed Abbott "wants to defund" public schooling via vouchers, asserting tax dollars would be sent away from rural communities in favor of "Dallas or Austin or somewhere else at your expense." Jason Bedrick, a research fellow for the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation, has argued that O'Rourke is focusing on systems instead of students, telling CP, "The reality is that most people are satisfied with their local district school, so school choice policies have not produced a mass exodus. However, no one school can best meet the needs of all students. When a student's assigned school just isn't the right fit, school choice can be a godsend." Read more.

U.S. District Judge Benjamin Beaton of the Western District of Kentucky has ruled that the city of Louisville, Ky., cannot punish a professional Christian photographer for refusing on religious grounds to photograph same-sex wedding ceremonies. Beaton stated that while the city "may require restaurants and hotels and stores to provide services regardless of the proprietors' views or their customers' legal status, the government may not force singers or writers or photographers to articulate messages they don't support." Read more.