Barry McKeen, an administrator for Grace Christian School in Florida, says he's received threats over media reports about a school policy that requires students to be identified by their biological sex. McKeen announced in a June 6 email that any students who violate the school's stance on sexuality would "be asked to leave the school immediately." McKeen told The Christian Post that the email—which outlined definitions of biological sex and sexual sin with specific references to Bible verses—was sent as part of a regular series of summer emails reminding parents of school policies. The administrator says the school has had a similar policy in place for years, and to date, no student has been excused or expelled over the policy. McKeen said the policy is "literally verbatim" in the handbooks of more than a dozen other Christian schools, and aside from terminology updates, the policy is the same as it was when the school started in 1975. Following an NBC News story on the school's policy, a law enforcement presence has been on campus, with McKeen explaining that two separate individuals have threatened him personally, including one who said they would "burn my house down." Read more.

George Yancey, professor at the Institute for Studies of Religion and Sociology at Baylor University, says that "anti-racism" ideology, however well intended, fails to take into consideration the sinfulness of all human beings, including people of color. While Yancey, an academic who has researched and written multiple books on the topic, does not deny that racism exists, he says that human depravity isn't taken seriously enough—and that applies across the board for all races. "Because of human depravity, as an African American, a white person can’t completely trust me to find the best solutions because I'm going to have an interest as an African American, nor can I trust a white person completely ... this is a human condition, so in order to neutralize that, I have to hear from that white person and that white person has to hear from me, and then we can work together to find solutions," he explains. Read more.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has lowered the number of church properties that a breakaway diocese must return to The Episcopal Church. While the state supreme court ordered the breakaway diocese, which is now affiliated with the Anglican Church in North America, to hand back 14 properties in April, in an opinion issued last Wednesday, the court reduced that number to eight. According to the state supreme court, six parishes had successfully amended their bylaws not to have had their properties held in trust with the national denomination. As a result, The Episcopal Church could not rightly claim to own their properties under South Carolina law, allowing them to stay with the breakaway Anglican diocese. Bishop Chip Edgar, head of the Anglican diocese, said in a statement that he is "grateful" for the six properties coming back but also "saddened" over those congregations that lost their properties. Read more.

Dr. Joseph Mattera writes about the Californa State Assembly's approval of Bill AB 2943 in 2018, which stipulated that the Church can no longer preach or teach that homosexuality is wrong and cannot try to correct that behavior. Although the bill later died, Mattera warns that just one state passing such a bill could swiftly turn into multiple progressive "copy states" taking action, leading it to be the law of the land. "[O]ne radical segment of society is getting bolder and more influential in its attempt to eradicate both the Bible and biblical Christianity from both the United States and Western civilization. If the overall church doesn’t wake up, serve humanity, and influence culture (the way the generation of the original Framers did), we may find the Bible outlawed, the way it was in Russia, China, and all tyrannical, atheistic nations," he writes. Read more.

As multiple countries reverse course on transgender activism, many Americans are starting to wake up and say, "Enough is enough," Dr. Michael Brown writes. Brown highlights several grassroots and federal level efforts to speak the truth when it comes to biological sex and calls out the irreparable damage that has physically destroyed many young people via cross-sex hormones and genital mutilating surgeries. "Let us do our best to hasten the societal turn by continuing to get the truth out. The time for doing that is now," he urges. Read more.

Some may say, "But Shane, Christianity has always been exposed to wickedness all around her." True, but we aren’t in North Korea or Iraq, or even in early Rome. In America, we have been given an extraordinary gift to steward, at least for now.

Has God not withdrawn His gracious hand because of compromise, capitulation, and cowardliness? I believe that He has. Read More

As Wednesday marks Ukraine's Independence Day, the anniversary of the day the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Christian nonprofits and churches around the world are being urged to pray for Russia's invasion of Ukraine to end. The World Evangelical Alliance and the European Evangelical Alliance have issued a call for churches and believers worldwide to set aside time on Wednesday to pray that God will bring about an end to the war. "As we look to Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, let us pray for hearts to be changed and for the weapons to be silenced," a World Evangelical Alliance statement reads. Read more.

Bowyer Research's Jerry Bowyer shares highlights from his recent "Meeting of Minds" podcast interview with Tom Carter, the president of the American Conservative Values Fund. Carter shares his organization's surveying process, explaining, "We go out and asked them to rank their three companies that are most hostile to conservative values. And what we saw in the first four surveys that we did was that Facebook, now Meta, was number one the whole time. What we found in the last survey we did is that Disney had surpassed Meta, which we thought was very interesting." The two also discuss BlackRock, Twitter, Tesla, and the differences between supporting green energy and forcing mandates on society. Read more.