The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 7-4 on Friday that a Florida school district's bathroom policy did not discriminate against trans-identified students or violate federal civil rights law. Judge Barbara Lagoa, a Trump appointee, who wrote for the majority, wrote that St. Johns County School Board's policy "is clearly related to—indeed, is almost a mirror of—its objective of protecting the privacy interests of students to use the bathroom away from the opposite sex and to shield their bodies from the opposite sex in the bathroom, which, like a locker room or shower facility, is one of the spaces in a school where such bodily exposure is most likely to occur." Petitioner Drew Adams, a female who identifies as a male, was initially allowed to use the boy's restroom for six weeks in ninth grade but was subsequently barred by officials and provided the alternative of using a gender-neutral, single-stall bathroom. Read more.

Jeff Younger, a Texas father who has gained national attention for his opposition to his ex-wife's efforts to identify their son, James, as a girl named Luna, and encourage him to undergo experimental medicalized gender transition, wrote on Twitter Friday that "the Supreme Court of Texas denied my Mandamus, effectively terminating my parental rights" after the justices rejected his request to prevent his ex-wife from subjecting their son to chemical castration through the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. In denying the father's petition for mandamus, the justices declared that the non-biological mother is already prevented from "doing precisely what he fears" due to a previous court order. California recently enacted Senate Bill 107, making it a sanctuary state for those who want to prescribe puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or perform body-mutilating sex-change surgeries on minors. Read more.

Rev. Franklin Graham took to Facebook on New Year's Eve to caution that the world is "imploding" and the state of affairs will "get worse" before it gets better. After Graham condemned how "developed nations are being overtaken by socialism, removing God from anything and everything in the public square," he stressed that "if you think things are bad, just wait, they’ll get worse." In sharing what followers of Jesus can do, he declared, "We tell a dying world that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life—no one comes through the father except through Him (see John 14:6). We urge lost souls to repent of their sins and believe in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ before it’s too late." Graham further urged his followers to remain vigilant in a follow-up post referencing a passage from Matthew, including Jesus telling his followers to "be ready, for the Son of God is coming at an hour you do not expect" in Matthew 24:44. Read more.

The Washington Stand's Joshua Arnold outlines four tactics to help ensure you keep your New Year's resolutions on track. Prominently post your goals so you consistently remind yourself what you resolved to do, find accountability in a trusted friend, track with others for encouragement, and commit to completing those goals together so that you don't have to reach your goals alone. Read more.

The Daily Signal's Tyler O'Neil writes about biological male Dr. Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary of health at the federal Department of Health and Human Services, calling for Big Tech to censor so-called "medical misinformation" after declaring there is no "scientific or medical dispute" about the benefits of using experimental drugs and body-mutilating sex-change surgeries. O'Neil calls out Levine, who identifies as a woman, for supporting digital censorship and ignoring the growing body of research, evidence, and vocalizations from detransitioners that dispute the use of experimental drugs and body-mutilating surgeries to treat patients with gender dysphoria. Read more.

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Anchorage Baptist Temple in Alaska has changed its name to Mountain City Church to better reflect the identity of its roughly 2,500-member congregation. Pastor Ron Hoffman announced the change on Sunday, saying, "Our vision is to transform every Alaskan with the salt, light, and love of Christ, like a city set on a hill that cannot be hidden." Hoffman stated that the church has no intention of leaving its heritage behind, but explained that one of the issues with its former name was the use of the word "temple," which Hoffman said is more associated with "false religions" than Christian churches. Read more.

Prayers continued to go up for Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin as the beloved 24-year-old NFL player remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack that caused him to collapse during a live broadcast of a game against the Cincinnati Bengals Monday night. The Buffalo Bills confirmed that Hamlin's collapse was due to "a cardiac arrest" but his heartbeat was "restored on the field" before he was hospitalized. An image posted on Twitter of the Bills team praying on the field had been viewed more than 42 million times as of Tuesday morning as prayers for the player continued to fill social media. Read more.

Going "woke" doesn't look to have been a winning strategy for a number of Hollywood's biggest studios. A report from the Financial Times has revealed that The Walt Disney Company, Comcast, Netflix and other media giants lost more than a half-trillion dollars in market value in 2022. Further, the market value for the Dow Jones Media Titans (DJMT) index, a barometer of the financial health of 30 of the biggest media companies in the world, plunged from $1.35 trillion to $808 billion, a decline of about 40%. Disney saw its steepest drop in nearly a half-century, with its shares sinking by approximately 45% after the studio's disappointing "Avatar" sequel performance. The letdown comes as the media giant is projected to lose $100 million on "Strange World," a sci-fi comedy with an LGBT subplot. Disney CEO Bob Iger, who stepped back into the role as a replacement for former president Bob Chapek, expressed remorse over the company being "dragged" into the debate over Florida HB1557 and vowed to employees he would work to "quiet things down" following the turbulence between the organization and the state of Florida. Read more.