Common Core in America: State-sponsored Religion

Last updated on: February 10, 2020 at 2:43 pm By Bethany Blankley

In 2014-2015 America, public school students via Common Core are: Participating in public school sponsored trips to mosques via taxpayer expense, girls must wear head scarves (Colorado parents complain), Debating whether or not the Holocaust was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain,” (an eighth-grade assignment defended by the Rialto Unified School District, Los Angeles), Pledging allegiance to Allah (New York), Observing two “Muslim holy days,” (New York City), Being taught Islamic vocabulary lessons (North Carolina), Being taught Islamic Culture (Tennessee), Being taught world history from Islamic perspective... Read more

Jews Most Targeted Victims of Hate Crimes in America, on College Campuses [video]

Last updated on: February 10, 2020 at 2:45 pm By Bethany Blankley

Jews remain the number one victims of religiously-motivated hate crimes in the U.S., according to FBI hate crime data reported every year. Most disturbing is what Jewish Voices on Campus documented on video: widespread hatred and violence committed against Jews at U.S. college campuses. According to the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s www.JewHatredOnCampus.org, the ten most dangerous American college campuses for Jewish students in 2015 were: Columbia University, New York City (New York’s largest employer) Cornell University, Ithaca N.Y. George Mason University,... Read more

Politics is Spiritual

Last updated on: February 10, 2020 at 2:48 pm By Bethany Blankley

Christians believe that God created the Earth and everything in it. He also created three methods for societal order by establishing the government, the family, and the church, which together sustain right moral living and encourage human flourishing. God cares about all of his creation, especially government, because without restraining evil, anarchy and lawlessness will prevail. Society’s natural state is self-serving destruction, which is why Christians are required to impart righteousness in all areas of life. A state that is... Read more

The Supreme Court and Pastors on Marriage [video]

Last updated on: February 10, 2020 at 2:53 pm By Bethany Blankley

“Why are we scared today preachers? Everybody’s coming out of the closet but the saints.” – Alabama Pastor Cedric Hatcher Pastor Cedric Hatcher recently expressed his bewilderment over the “normalization” of same-sex marriage at a recent Birmingham City Council meeting. He asked, “Why are citizens allowing same-sex advocates to parade gay couples in front of children as if it were normal?” He passionately argued: gay marriage is not normal, nor is it Biblical. In Alabama, probate judges have been issuing marriage... Read more

Decoding Obama: No, Muslims Did Not Found America, But Their Piracy United Americans Against Islam

Last updated on: February 10, 2020 at 2:55 pm By Bethany Blankley

Former president Barack Obama claimed, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of America since its founding.” This is both true and false. It is true in the sense that Islam posed a threat to America’s early existence. The North African Islamic Barbary Pirates had been attacking the west since the 13th century and began attacking newly American ships after the War of Independence. Algerian Dey Muhammad declared war on the United States, creating a catalyst for two separate wars the... Read more

An Appeal to Rob Bell: Come Home, If it Ever Existed

Last updated on: February 10, 2020 at 2:58 pm By Bethany Blankley

In 1992 I visited Wheaton College and met the members of a really cool student band called “____ ton bundle”. These young guys, only five years older me, were indie before there was indie. Their shaggy hair, quirky glasses, and almost hipster grunge-style, before there ever was grunge, brought an edge to an otherwise white male, middle-class Midwestern band. I still have my cassette tape of their only album, “taking my donkey to town,” even though I no longer own... Read more

The Truth About My Headline-Making Trip to Israel

Last updated on: February 10, 2020 at 3:01 pm By Bethany Blankley

While at a northern Israeli kibbutz, I learned of media criticism about my headline-making trip in Israel. It seems that those vilifying it are misinformed. I’ve been traveling with people who represent many faiths, ethnicities, ages, and even have friends and relatives whose lifestyles and/or political beliefs are quite different from each other. We witnessed first-hand the reality of Israeli daily life hearing and seeing explosions. I was able to capture on film an explosion on the Israeli-Syrian border from Mt. Bental, Golan... Read more

Nazi Holocaust: Incomparable to Muhammad’s Plan for Jews

Last updated on: February 10, 2020 at 3:07 pm By Bethany Blankley

Commemorating the anniversary of the liberation of the German Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland on January 27, 1945, is important. But remembering why it happened, and ignoring ongoing attempts to eradicate Jews is more important. Internationally, eradicating Jews and Israel is integral to Islam. Muslims believe, according to the Qur’an, that worldwide Islamic rule will only occur once Israel is destroyed and Babylon is rebuilt. Which is why enforcing a worldwide holocaust of Jews is not optional. It is required.... Read more

A Tale of Two City Protests: Sharia in Dallas vs. Christian Prayer in Baton Rouge

Last updated on: February 10, 2020 at 3:11 pm By Bethany Blankley

On January 17, Sound Vision Foundation, a Chicago-based 501 (C) 3 organization, held a “Stand with the Prophet” event at the Curtis Culwell Center on Independent School District property in Garland, Texas. The event, permitted by the Superintendent of Public Schools, launched a Strategic Communication Center for Muslims to advocate censoring and criminalizing non-Muslim speech. Sound Vision asks: “Frustrated with Islamophobes defaming the Prophet? Remember the Danish cartoons defaming the Prophet? Or the anti-Islam film, “Innocence of Muslims”?” After Muslim “defenders of... Read more

Christian Ministers Leading from the Front: In and Out of the Pulpit

Last updated on: February 10, 2020 at 3:15 pm By Bethany Blankley

Biblically-committed pastors have always been at the forefront of leading U.S. social change, calling on God for mercy, guidance, wisdom, and revival. Historically, they led both in and out of the pulpit—playing pivotal roles in the American Revolution, opposing slavery and helping orchestrate the Underground Railroad, actively registering people to vote, supporting civil rights, prison reform, poverty reform, and fighting in war and/or serving as military chaplains. Because every area of life is political, pastors have and continue to engage... Read more