While a tornado tore through McCracken County, Kentucky, and ripped off the roof of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, 40 preschoolers and 10 staff were inside. While the storm raged outside, the children sang songs like, “Jesus Loves Me” and “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” inside. None were harmed. The EF2 tornado carrying winds of up to 135 mph ravaged a 5-square-mile area. “God was definitely with us,” preschool director Michelle Rushing told WPSD Local News 6.... Read more
A lesbian-owned vegan cafe in Melbourne, Australia, which charged an 18 percent “man tax” went out of business after only being in business for less than two years. The Handsome Her restaurant made headlines in 2017 when it announced its rules for seating arrangements: female customers got preference and men had to pay an 18 percent tax to eat there. The tax was described as a way to “protest the gender pay gap.” It backfired– or fired them in the... Read more
On May 21, 1940– 79 years ago yesterday– a Nazi military unit “evacuated” 1,500 hospital patients in East Prussia because of they were considered “unfit” for service by the German Reich. Evacuated really meant exterminated. However, this appears to be similar to a Texas law that authorizes hospitals to take patients off of ventilators after ten days–against their’s and their family’s will– and left to die, pro-life advocates argue. Under Nazi rule 79 years ago today, History.com states: Mentally ill... Read more
According to a May 2019 Gallup poll, likely voters expressed increased support for candidates holding varying faiths and ideologies. The survey asked likely voters a series of hypothetical questions about candidate qualities, and faith and ideology. It found that out of 12 hypothetical candidate qualities, voters nearly universally supported voting for a black, Jewish, or Catholic candidate. Among the random sample of 1,024 adults polled, 96 percent of voters said they would vote for a black candidate, 95 percent said... Read more
Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats continue to refuse allowing a vote on the House floor on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would “prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion.” Last Friday, House Democrats refused to allow a vote on the bill for the 41st time. They read the same statement they have read the previous 40 times,... Read more
The highlight of Liberty University’s 46th Commencement wasn’t solely Vice President Mike Pence’s address—it was its students’ accomplishments and the school’s spirit of entrepreneurship. Pence’s visit was the second given at the evangelical Christian campus, having previously addressed students at a 2016 Convocation when he was the then-Indiana governor and Republican vice presidential candidate. The theme of commencement was the spirit of entrepreneurialism, the school said, as “entrepreneurism is one of the great manifestations of individual and economic freedom. Especially... Read more
On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson established the first Mother’s Day observance in the U.S. declaring it to be celebrated on the second Sunday of May. According to History.com, more phone calls are made on Mother’s Day than any other day of the year. Calling mom causes phone traffic to spike by as much as 37 percent. In the years before the Civil War, movements to create a day to celebrate mothers and motherhood began in West Virginia, pioneered... Read more
The Voice of Europe calculates that 30 million Muslims live in the western world. Based on population number alone, the probability of any Muslim being attacked in the West at any given year is approximately 1 out of 10 million. By comparison, 261 non-Muslims have been killed and many more injured, in attacks by Muslims in less than four years, in France alone– which has a population of 66 million. On average 66 non-Muslims are killed every year by Muslims,... Read more
Taurus (April 20-May 20) is the first of the last section of God’s Zodiac (Taurus, Gemini, Cancer and Leo), which tells the story of the Reigning Redeemer who delivered his people from sin. Taurus, the judge, points to Jesus’s second-coming and ultimate rule. (The first group (Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius) tells the story of Jesus the suffering savior; the second (Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces and Aries) points to the glorified redeemer.) Joseph Augustus Seiss, whose work helps provide the basis... Read more
The Texas Senate approved Senate Bill 22 the first major anti-abortion bill of the session last week, which is expected to pass the Republican-controlled House and be signed by Gov. Greg Abbott. Republican state Senator Donna Campbell sponsored the legislation, which bans state and local governments from using taxpayer money to fund abortion providers. The legislation would ban “… a sale, purchase, lease, donation of money, goods, services, or real property, or any other transaction between a governmental entity and a... Read more
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