Former National Association of Evangelicals President Ted Haggard has been accused of inappropriately touching at least two young men and illicit drug use during his new ministry. Haggard started the Colorado-based St. James Church 12 years ago, a comeback that followed a 2006 sex scandal involving illicit drug use and a male prostitute. "People are scared and worried and don't want to be connected to him anymore," the Rev. Kirk "Seth" Sethman, who was ordained as a minister by St. James Church in October 2012, told The Colorado Springs Gazette. Sethman told The Gazette that he was unaware of Haggard's 2006 scandal until January 2019 and that the discovery made him more concerned about stories he heard about how Haggard conducted himself around young men. He shared recorded testimony from two such men who expressed discomfort with Haggard's touching, which they felt was inappropriate. "Sometimes when he touches me, it feels very predatorial and very strange," one of the men, who was a minor at the time of his alleged touching, was quoted as saying. Read more.

Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens in Wyoming has temporarily blocked a Wyoming law that would have banned most abortions after an emergency hearing that was held the day the measure was supposed to take effect. Six plaintiffs have argued Wyoming's ban would harm them. Two of the plaintiffs included a pregnant woman who raised concerns about health issues and an OB-GYN named Dr. Giovannina Anthony, who was concerned about being criminally punished. Gov. Mark Gordon signed House Bill 92 into law in March, a trigger measure aimed at banning most abortions if the U.S. Supreme Court turned Roe v. Wade. The ban included exemptions for rape, incest, and life-threatening medical emergency for the mother. Read more.

Ryan Bomberger calls out leftists focused on controlling information via biased and inaccurate "fact-checking" measures. Pointing to the recent creation of The Markup, Bomberger highlights its inaccurate investigation of Abortion Pill Reversal and the group's erroneous accusation that the Radiance Foundation had purchased ads about APR. "Well, that data was completely false. Shocker, right? The Radiance Foundation has never purchased ads or boosted posts on Facebook regarding the Abortion Pill Reversal. It’s not because we don’t fully support the life-saving procedure (we do!), but because Facebook has disallowed us from advertising on any social issues," Bomberger points out. Read more.

In this op-ed, John Stonestreet and Maria Baer explore research that demonstrates the importance of having a father and why society today does not address the issue of fatherlessness. "Our culture got to this point via the sexual revolution, which encouraged promiscuity by redefining freedom and prioritizing autonomy over responsibility. When sex outside of marriage becomes normal, it is mostly women who are left on their own to raise the resulting children," they write. Read more.

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Riley Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer who just graduated from the University of Kentucky, took to Fox Nation's "Tucker Carlson Today" to discuss how sharing a locker room with trans-identified athlete Lia Thomas made her and other females uncomfortable. Gaines, who said she felt God put her in a position to speak out, shared how she learned about Thomas in November 2021 after seeing that the biologically male athlete had swam 200 yards in 1 minute and 41 seconds. "I click on the article and it says it’s a senior swimmer, she’s from UPenn, which isn’t historically a swimming school," she recalled. Days later, she discovered "Lia Thomas was formerly Will Thomas and swam on the men's side for three years." Gaines described the NCAA championships at Georgia Tech in March as having an "edgy" atmosphere that turned into anger when Thomas won the national title and "[blew] all the other females completely out of the water." She also discussed the "extreme discomfort" female athletes felt at having to share the girls' locker room with Thomas and lamented the Biden administration's interpretation of Title IX, which she noted makes it "sexual assault" to refer to a person by "their wrong pronouns" but not to "have someone with opposite body parts in a female locker room." Read more.

Amazon has released the action-packed new trailer for "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power," a highly-anticipated series based on the bestselling books by Christian author J. R. R. Tolkien. The spinoff saga, which premieres Sept. 2 on Amazon Prime, is set thousands of years before the events of Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books took place. It will reportedly follow the centuries-long conflict centered on the Dark Lord Sauron and his tireless quest for power across Middle-earth. Watch the trailer here.

Actor Shia LaBeouf is gearing up for the release of "Padre Pio," a film where he stars in the role of the beloved Franciscan Capuchin friar. The movie will focus on the younger years of the Italian saint who lived in the 20th century. In preparation for the role, LaBeouf spent time living with monks, which came as the actor was discovering his own walk with the Lord. Raised Jewish, LaBeouf explained in a 2014 interview that he became a "Christian" while filming the movie "Fury" but that his faith was on and off since then. In August, the actor described in a video how his role in "Padre Pio" has impacted him, explaining, "I'm completely immersed in something way bigger than myself. I don't know if I've ever met a group of men as immersed in anything in my life." Read more.