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Drew Brees and Bring Your Bible to School Day Controversy Highlights Growing Intolerance

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees was forced to respond to criticism late yesterday for recording a 22-second video promoting our organization’s annual “Bring Your Bible to School Day”, which occurs this coming October 3rd.

Specifically, Brees was put on the defensive for doing the video because Bring Your Bible to School Day is associated with Focus on the Family. Critics were aghast that he would lend his name to the event, citing our ministry’s belief in biblical marriage and support of counseling for those with unwanted same-sex attraction.

Topics: Current Events September 6, 2019 by Jim Daly

JDD Blog: A National Day of Mourning Recognizes 20 Million Lives Lost to Abortion in the African American Community

For today’s post, I want to turn the space over to my colleague and Daily Citizen writer, Brittany Raymer.

It’s likely that none of your mainstream news outlets covered an important event that occurred this past weekend. As such, this might be the first time you’re hearing about this – but I’m grateful for Brittany bringing us the story:

While most people spent Labor Day weekend with family and friends, enjoying the last vestiges of summer, others were gathered to mourn the millions of African American babies lost to abortion.

Topics: Current Events September 4, 2019 by Jim Daly

Trump Administration is Right: Recreational Marijuana Use is a Growing Epidemic

As a resident of Colorado, a state that legalized recreational marijuana use in 2012, you get accustomed to all the so-called “jokes” about the popularity of the drug in the Rocky Mountain State.

Popular culture has been trying to destigmatize marijuana for years, and it’s often the punch line in movies, television shows and music.

The reality, though, is that the recreational use of cannabis is no laughing matter, most especially for young people and pregnant women.

Topics: Current Events Tags: current events August 29, 2019 by Jim Daly

Andrew Luck’s Retirement Decision Has a Hidden Message (Even for Non-Athletes)

Are you a football fan?

I had the privilege earlier this week to contribute an essay to Fox News on the surprise retirement announcement from Indianapolis Colt’s franchise quarterback, Andrew Luck.

Here is in part what I wrote:

I suspect attitudes about money and happiness are at the heart of much of the public’s incredulity surrounding Luck’s retirement. While the NFL star has already earned nearly $100 million over the past seven seasons, he potentially stood to receive hundreds of millions more over the course of his remaining career.

Topics: Current Events Tags: money, value August 28, 2019 by Jim Daly

‘The Hunt’ cancelation is welcome news – murdering political opponents isn’t entertaining or funny

As
you may have recently heard, Universal
Pictures announced Saturday it had canceled the planned September release of
the film “The Hunt” about liberals hunting conservative “Deplorables” who fit
the description of supporters of President Trump.

The cancelation was a victory for common sense
and decency.

But as I wrote for Fox
News, liberals have been – metaphorically speaking – “hunting” religious
conservatives for years. They have been attempting to deconstruct our
traditional values, as well as seeking to tear down all the institutions that
so many of us hold dear.

Topics: Current Events Tags: current events, movies August 14, 2019 by Jim Daly

Finding Grace in the Midst of Racial Division

Sometimes God calls us to do things that are bigger
than us – so big that all we can do is rely on His strength to get us through.

Captain
Ron Johnson experienced that truth in an inspiring way. He’s a retired
African-American police officer who became well-known after the governor of
Missouri assigned him to lead security efforts in Ferguson, Missouri after a
young black male, Michael Brown, was killed by a white police officer.

Topics: Current Events Tags: broadcast, faith August 9, 2019 by Jim Daly

Of Course Violent Video Games Desensitize Kids

As officials attempt to continue piecing together the motives
behind last weekend’s horrific cold-blooded murder sprees in both El Paso,
Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, attention has turned once again to the role violent
video games play in these types of attacks.

In remarks from the White House earlier this week, President Trump
suggested they were likely one factor in a long list of many.

“We must stop the glorification of
violence in our society,” he said.

Topics: Current Events Tags: current events, entertainment, parenting August 8, 2019 by Jim Daly

The World is Sick, Sinful and in Desperate Need of Revival

This weekend’s murderous rampages in El Paso,
Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that claimed a total of 31 lives, join an ever-growing
list of incidents of mass violence in America.

Whenever horror of this magnitude occurs our
focus almost always turns to motive. Although it’s impossible to make sense of
the inexplicable, we still want to know what’s behind the evil.

For these two separate tragedies, less than
24 hours apart, the early evidence seems clear both murderers were driven by
hatred.

Topics: Current Events Tags: current events, tragedy August 5, 2019 by Jim Daly

Hero Father Drowns While Saving His Daughters

Would you risk your life to save your son or daughter?

I suspect almost every parent would answer in the affirmative but very few moms and dads are confronted with the reality of laying down their life for their child.

Fred Pepperman of Tennessee paid the ultimate price earlier this month when he jumped into a riptide off the Florida coast to save his three daughters from drowning.

The brave father succeeded in saving them but collapsed in the process and was unable to be revived.

Topics: Current Events Tags: current events, faith, tragedy July 29, 2019 by Jim Daly

Guest Post: An Exciting Time to be Alive

By: Melanie Morgan

“This world’s going to hell in a handbasket,” seems to be the mantra of society today. But I beg to differ. My name is Melanie, and I’m a millennial. I’ve grown up in the age of the Internet, though you may be surprised to hear that I do remember the days of dial up and atlas maps for road trips.

I don’t remember Y2K, and I don’t remember much of life prior to 9/11.

Topics: Current Events July 25, 2019 by Jim Daly