Feminist groups are urging the Archivist of the United States to publish the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, while pro-life organizations are insisting that the ERA is dead. The National Organization for Women announced in a statement Friday that it was one of several feminist organizations participating in a virtual press conference on Thursday, which is the day they argue the ERA should take effect. Pro-life organization the National Right to Life Committee is among those pushing back against the amendment's proponents, with NRLC's Doug Johnson calling it an unconstitutional "bait-and-switch" that has yet to be agreed to by a single a Congress with the required two-thirds votes.

In this interview with The Christian Post, comedian Kevin James and actor Taylor Lautner, stars of "Home Team," discuss how the upcoming Netflix sports comedy highlights the important role a father — or a father figure — plays in the life of a child at a time when the role is often diminished in entertainment. "[I]t is key to find those moments, to be able to do it in whatever way, shape or form you can to spend more time with your family and really connect because families need that," James explained. "Home Team," which is not a faith-based film, is rated PG. Click the image to learn more and listen to the full interview.

Pro-life activist Benjamin Watson, a former NFL football player and outspoken supporter of the pro-life movement, took to Twitter to call out Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who is also the pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. After Warnock posted on Twitter that he is a "pro-choice pastor" who doesn't see enough space for the US. government to be in a patient's room, Watson responded to the senator, tweeting, "76% of women in those rooms say they would prefer to parent if circumstances were different. A Pastor knows the value of human life. A Senator knows how to support mother AND child. Sir, you know better. Stop being scared.”

Amazon Prime Video is developing a docuseries about popular Christian reality TV families, including the Duggar family, and their connection to Institute in Basic Life Principles, a conservative Christian group. Prime Video teamed up with the creators of the "LuLaRich" docuseries for the project in the wake of the scandal surrounding eldest Duggar son, Josh, who is currently in prison on child pornography charges. Other families who will be featured in the series include the Plath family (TLC's "Welcome to Plathville") and the Bates family (UPtv's "Bringing Up Bates").

Wallace B. Henley writes about the ministry and actions of Jesus and why it is important to focus on building a ministry instead of simply accruing numbers. "If the church is the body of Christ, it ought to do what Jesus did in His body. The problem Jesus’s disciples faced was not how to get larger numbers, but how to accommodate the crowds that came to Jesus," he asserts. Click to read.

Popular UPtv show "Bringing Up Bates" has been canceled after 10 seasons, and the 11th season will not air, the network has announced. UPtv says the move comes as they refocus their strategy on movies and scripted series. The family, who thanked God for the experience, recently found themselves at the center of controversy after daughter Carlin Bates Stewart shared a video where a family game of charades went too far when brother Lawson Bates tried to portray "hunting" to his family and someone in the background shouted the name of George Floyd, an unarmed African American killed by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. People subsequently called for the show's cancellation, and Stewart removed the video and apologized. UPtv did not comment on whether the video factored into their decision to cancel the show.

"In a recent Salt Lake Tribune editorial, readers were greeted with a chilling proposal: 'Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor’s next move would be to find a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going as far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere,'" Bill Connor writes. Connor discusses the dangers with this line of thinking, comparing these "extreme infringements of individual rights" to the United States' Japanese internment 80 years ago.