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The VA suspends one of it PA chaplains from preaching Faith Under Fire from Family Life News A Pennsylvania chaplain at the Veterans Administration was restricted from religious leadership for the summer and fall. Chaplain Rusty Trubey's supervisor reassigned him for multiple months at the Coatesville VA. A legal challenge is in progress after a supervisor there suspended the chaplain over the con...

Values-based Victories in the Culture Faith Under Fire , from Family Life News Traditionalists are winning the culture wars. So says a leading Christian communications and entertainment executive. Matthew Faraci points to changes not only in politics and social dialogue, but also how corporate America has pivoted back toward the middle. This full interview (January 23) -- focused on the wider cult...

Traditionalists are winning the culture wars. So says a leading Christian communications and entertainment executive. Matthew Faraci points to changes not only in politics and social dialogue, but also how corporate America has pivoted back toward the middle. This full interview (January 23) -- focused on the wider culture -- is available now from our "Faith Under Fire" podcast feed. Listen, downl...

War & Peace, Jews & Christians What's likely ahead for the Middle East in 2025? A Family Life News  newsmaker interview on "Faith Under Fire" The founder of a Jewish Advocacy Organization predicts the wars and tensions in the Middle East will see remarkable improvement, as Donald Trump returns to the American presidency. Matthew Faraci , the founder of Gideon 300 , says the forthcomin...

Beth Serio - "Do No Harm" Medicine Faith Under Fire from Family Life News There were 813 children and underaged teens in Pennsylvania who received surgical or hormonal treatments to alter their gender. Another 1100 New York minors were also treated with what advocates refer to as "gender-affirming care". Opponents have described such medical interventions as dangerous or unnecessary and as "mutila...

Rewinding to some of 2024's big issues in the faith-vs-culture battles The Faith Under Fire podcast from Family Life News As we approach the end of the year, "Faith Under Fire" host Greg Gillispie samples some of the interviews we've aired in the past 12 months. These are some of the voices from the religious and values-based battlefields in our culture.   You can go to  www. FamilyLife....

Faith Under Fire: Parochial School Families sue for access to extracurriculars at the State College Area Public Schools.  

A Christian organization is encouraging men to unplug from the workplace to nourish their faith and their family life this Christmas season. Joe Beckler says it can be easy for all people to get caught up in the everyday grind all year, but the schedules, tasks and responsibilities are particularly pronounced at this time of the year. In addition to all the school concerts, church programs, shoppi...

Three western PA school districts sue over cultural indoctrination mandates -- and win The " Faith Under Fire " podcast from Family Life News   Two years ago, Governor Wolf's Education Department enacted mandates, requiring teachers and students to buy-into certain popular cultural beliefs.  A group of school districts, teachers and families sued, and won a legal challenge against those...

Ten states decided proposed amendments to their constitutions in the October and November voting, a little more than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the national Constitution does not include rights to abortions, leaving the decision on any limits (and taxpayer funding) to each individual state. Seven of those state approved pro-abortion ballot measures, but three did not. Family...

A NY Pro-Life Group questions Planned Parenthood’s financial publicity Family Life’s weekly “Faith Under Fire” feature When Planned Parenthood announced it would be, at least temporarily, curtailing some abortion procedures at several New York clinics, an Empire State pro-life organization raised questions about Planned Parenthood’s publicity last month. Feminists Cho...

Many Christian colleges — like their secular counterparts — are facing financial and enrollment pressures which threaten their futures. Christian journalist Warren Smith, today’s guest on Family Life’s “Faith Under Fire”, analyzes the issues which have led to numerous faith-based schools retrenching, with some forced to merge or close their doors. He says decisi...

In May, New York’s Attorney General, Letitia James, sued 11 crisis pregnancy resource centers across the state because they offer an “unsafe” abortion pill reversal. More than 60 percent of the time, these clinics have been able to save the life of a baby when the mother has taken a mail-order abortion pill like Mifepristone. … Read More Read More

“Faith Under Fire” – New York’s Attorney General v Pregnancy Resource Centers – 6/20/24 Pregnancy Care Centers are suing State Attorney General Tish James, to prevent the AG from suing the pro-life centers who want to share medical information about the dangers of two abortion-triggering pills. Gabriella McIntyre of the Alliance Defending Freedom joins Sarah … R...

Communists Seeking Christianity – Family Life’s “Faith Under Fire” As the Soviet Union’s government was crumbling, leaders there turned to American Christians to seek solutions to the problems of the USSR. John Bernbaum and prominent Christian evangelist Philip Yancey were invited to Russia, to tell how faith could overcome the social and moral problems there.  &#8230...

Hostility Toward Churches: Causes & Implications Faith Under Fire – 4/18/24 A six-year national study of threats, violence and vandalism aimed at churches and religious organization shows the danger spiked in 2023. This edition of Family Life’s “Faith Under Fire” feature invites back Arielle Del Turco for a second conversation. Today, we recap the results … Read M...

Rising Hostility Against Churches – This week on “Faith Under Fire” The number of incidents of assaults, violence, vandalism and other hostile actions against Churches across the USA doubled in 2023, compared to the relatively high number of incidents reported the previous year. Threats and actual attacks became eight times more frequent than just six … Read More Read More

An Insider’s Perspective on Haiti – Faith Under Fire When gangs burst into prisons throughout the island nation of Haiti, it launched a cascade of violence and brutality which shook the residents, toppled the standing of government, and opened the doors to crime and murder. Family Life News offers you a perspective on what it … Read More Read More

Gender, Sports, Parental Rights, and the First Amendment – “Faith Under Fire” A small Christian school has sued its state sports association, after the Vermont Principals Association evicted the school’s teams  from the group. The Mid Vermont Christian School’s girls basketball team forfeited a state tournament game, rather than play an opposing team which included &#...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court this week, by a narrow 4-3 vote, ruled that a lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood is to be heard by a lower court. At issue is a question about whether Pennsylvania can restrict the state’s Medicaid funds only to pay for the abortions which are directly related to situations of rape, … Read More Read More

As the abortion industry and many politicians look to put abortion into state constitutions, many in the pro-life movement seek to redefine the debate. Christina Fadden is president of Syracuse Right to Life. The day after the National March for Life in DC, that group and its partners held a local rally and March for … Read More Read More

What lessons learned during the “Covid Era” will help congregations thrive into the new future? We have a return visit from Allison Norton of the Covid Religion Research Project, which is in the third year of a five-year study of 15,000 American congregations. In this new conversation Norton addresses how congregations are poised to either … Read More Read More

“We have to understand that this is a SPIRITUAL battle, expressed in a MILITARY attack.” — Susan Michael, on the October 7, 2023, attacks made against the nation of Israel This week is the 13th week since Hamas militants poured across Israel’s southern border — killing, assaulting and kidnapping citizens of Israel and other nations. … Read More Read More

A five-year research project on congregational vitality began just before the Covid shutdowns began in 2020. (The timing gives informative snapshots of the effect of the closing of church buildings, and the move of church life to electronic connections. It also gives us a long-view of how congregations have rebounded, and why some churches are … Read More Read More

Today’s “Faith Under Fire” Feature on Family Life features analysis of how the pro-abortion and pro-life movements have adapted this year, after the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v Wade, sending the lawmaking decisions back to each of the 50 states. Jim Harden is President of Compass Care, which operates pregnancy care centers in Albany, … Read More Read More