New birth data raises serious concerns, but churches and communities have a clear opportunity to honor marriage, strengthen fathers, and help children flourish.
Try these - Be still and know that I am God; in WV terms relax, Ive got this. Human nature is to feel safe when we are in control but we people have limited control over a limited number of things. Presidents and Kings have always deluded themselves with ego driven power and think they can control the outcome but … [more ...]
The Associated Press recently published a serious investigation into the growth of private school choice programs across the country. Its central concern is that many programs are not primarily serving …
More than two decades ago, in 2004, Harvard professor Samuel Huntington warned in his book Who Are We?that America was facing a crisis of identity. He argued that a nation …
Recently, the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee advanced a federal funding bill by an 11-7 party-line vote. The full House Appropriations Committee later …
The greatest desire of any Christian parent is to see their children put their faith in Jesus Christ and be saved from their sins. The task of explaining the gospel to our most cherished ones is both the heaviest responsibility and the highest joy. Its a privilege we must pursue wholly depending on Gods grace and wisdom, with much patience …
In a recent call with reporters, State School Board President Paul Hardesty shared concerns about traditional public schools in West Virginia. He said, I think were going to see some of our 55 business units run the risk of financial insolvency at some point of time here in the near future. While it is refreshing for school leadership to recognize …
Something is terribly wrong. We see it in the rising rates of anxiety, depression, loneliness, self-harm, addiction, violence, and suicide among our children. In every category of well-being, statistics show todays children are in trouble. We see it in classrooms marked by disrespect and emotional fragility. We see it in families struggling to hold relationships together, and in a culture …
Can we be honest and agree that after an exhausting day with toddlers, facing bath time is a true test of perseverance? By the time evening comes, themom skillsare simply depleted. A parenting hack I found useful when my girls were little was transforming into some form of alter ego. A secondary, alternative version of myself somehow ignited the energy …
Less than a century ago, the American was not defined by their status or possessions, but by their capacity to endure. The darkest years of the Great Depression had our citizens rationing food, stretching pennies, and weathering immense hardship just to provide for their families. Generations before that, our ancestors dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to defy a tyrannical …
You shall not murder. Thats the entire sixth commandment. In Hebrew, its actually even shorterjust two words, in fact: lo, the negation (not), and ratsach, murder. It seems like an obvious, uncontroversial commandment. If any command could go unstated, any that we as human beings and good neighbors would simply assume, perhaps it would be this one. Surely people from …
Calvary Baptist Church of King, NC has been a beacon of hope for its community since 1969. With a commitment to spreading the Gospel through various ministries such as preschool, Christian day school, bus ministry, sports ministry, life groups, and many others, the church has touched the lives of countless people in King and beyond. For more than two decades, …
Artificial intelligence is no longer simply changing how we work, communicate, or fight wars. The worlds leading technology powers are now pursuing something far more ambitious: merging AI directly with the human brain. That future moved a step closer this month. China approved its first commercially available brain-computer interface, known asNEO, for certain patients suffering from paralysis. Meanwhile, in the …
Many Christians dont realize the Bible has a lot to say about politics.This is partly because we have separated the fields of religion and politics. However, these were not separate in Jesus time. There are many passages where we overlook the political dimension because we forget about the historical setting. As one scholar put it, the Roman Empire is not …
These days, its hard to go a few weeks without bumping into another horrifying story about a man drugging his pregnantgirlfriend,wife, ordaughterwith the abortion drug. But as disturbing as those headlines have been, coercion doesnt always take the form of an angry man. Sometimes, its a misleading abortion doctor or the impatient Planned Parenthood worker who refuses to tell the …
In todays rapidly shifting cultural landscape, Christian school educators are uniquely positioned to guide students through the intersection of faith …