religious liberty

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) will pay $80,000 in a settlement after a former graduate student sued the school for discriminating against her for sharing her Christian views.

A city in Idaho will pay $300,000 in a settlement with Christians arrested in 2020 for singing hymns outside as part of a protest against COVID-19 restrictions.

Employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs (V.A.) can now opt out of performing abortion services if the services go against their religious beliefs.

A small group of Christians in San Francisco, California, have engaged in a legal battle over the removal of a 28-foot cross monument that was erected more than five decades ago.

This brave new world of hostility is familiar for our brothers and sisters elsewhere, in places like Nigeria, India, and China. Ours are more experiences of a series of horrible moments, such as earlier this year in Nashville. Christians in the West do not fear for their lives. Even so, something has clearly shifted. Calls to tolerate the views of others are about as 1990s these days as talking about abortion being “safe, legal, and rare.” As we’ve seen in Nashville, it’s a perilously small step from the rhetorical games of wanting to punch “literal Nazis” to literally punching those who dare stray from the cultural narrative.

The only way forward for the Christ follower is to commit again to knowing what is true, to commit again to saying and living what is true even if there is a cost, and to say and live what is true in a way that is pleasing to Christ. In other words, faithfulness will involve both the what we believe and the how we’ll live it out.

For the sake of our neighbors, all who believe in the importance of truth must continue to say so.

Recently, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s important decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis, a lie has been propagated about the case, a lie that purportedly implicates plaintiff Lorie Smith and the Alliance Defending Freedom. Thanks to the willingness of media outlets, public officials, and pundits to repeat these accusations and misrepresent what they mean, this lie has the potential to poison the cultural memory about this critically important case. The accusation is that 303 Creative, the graphic design company at the center of the lawsuit, and ADF invented a fake customer request for a same-sex wedding website and that, because of this deceit, the Court should have never heard the case in the first place.

A Christian social worker in the United Kingdom says he is the victim of religious discrimination after a job offer was revoked after his faith-based views on same-sex marriage and homosexuality were revealed.

A Christian charity held a protest outside the London headquarters of Barclays Bank on Thursday after the bank closed the charity's account due to pressure from LGBT activists.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed a Christian website designer a historic free speech victory, ruling that the state of Colorado cannot force her to design a website celebrating same-sex weddings.