Theater students study the principle of the “willing suspension of disbelief,” meaning that in order to enjoy a show, audience members must suspend their critical thinking and believe that the performance onstage is really happening. To make sense of Coastal Carolina University’s . . . Continue reading →
Civil Life
Religious Freedom Watch: Kansas City Church Wins Settlement Over Religious Discrimination
A Kansas City-area Baptist megachurch has reached a $150,000 settlement with the county over coronavirus restrictions, with the church claiming that the county treated them more harshly than secular institutions when it came to COVID protocols. Abundant Life Baptist Church, which has . . . Continue reading →
Christian Employers Alliance Sues Biden Administration Over Sex Transition Surgery Requirement
The Christian Employers Alliance filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration on Monday over two mandates that force religious nonprofit and for-profit employers to fund “gender transition surgeries, procedures, counseling, and treatments.” On Tuesday, Alliance Defending Freedom filed a motion asking a . . . Continue reading →
A Little More In The Public Interest
Obviously we all have an interest in Covid, the vaccine, and treatments. It is beyond difficult for most of us to sort through the welter of information, to determine what is genuine and what is propaganda. Continue reading
In The Public Interest
We the physicians of the world, united and loyal to the Hippocratic Oath, recognizing the profession of medicine as we know it is at a crossroad, are compelled to declare the following; WHEREAS, it is our utmost responsibility and duty to uphold . . . Continue reading →
Covid Accelerated The Homeschooling Revolution
By May, at the risk of violating state truancy laws, Wrobel had stopped fighting and let her kids log on (or not) whenever they felt like it. It was, she said, “the darkest hour before dawn.” That September, she started homeschooling. She . . . Continue reading →
Advocates Of Religious Liberty Should Care About Federal Vaccine Mandates
Although much of the rhetoric surrounding the new federal vaccine mandates focuses on individual rights—“how dare they force me to inject something into my body?”—the government can generally regulate its own employees, or those it funds with Medicaid/Medicare dollars, so the strongest . . . Continue reading →
Is Your Child’s Teacher A Member Of Antifa? Is Your Child Receiving Extra Credit For Attending Antifa Events?
The School Administration Did Not Notice The Antifa Banner Hanging In The Classroom?
A Sacramento area high school teacher indoctrinates students in Antifa ideology. Continue reading →
What Is Equity?
The word of the day is Aequitas (pronounced, ay-qwee-tas). If you have been paying attention to the cultural discussions current in the West, if you have children in school or are aware of the sorts of discussions that are occurring in schools boards . . . Continue reading →
The Bubble
Entrance into the pundit class is highly restricted. It requires having the right credentials and knowing the right words. To get those, you have to spend your early life weaving through a series of ever more selective institutions where you learn how . . . Continue reading →
Afghanistan, A Twofold Kingdom, Serpents, And Doves
The disastrous American withdrawal from Afghanistan has created a multifaceted crisis. A savage regime has retaken control of Afghanistan and bodies of innocent civilians and American allies are already strewn across the streets. This is the Taliban is showing a modicum of restraint as they wait for the world’s television cameras to lose interest and they can begin executing their reprisals in earnest. Doubtless they are quaking in their new boots (courtesy of the Afghan National Army and the US taxpayer) at the finger wagging coming from the US State Department. Most Americans seem to want America out of Afghanistan but few Americans want what has transpired over the last few days across Afghanistan. Continue reading →
Help For New Deacons (And Others) Regarding Homelessness And Addiction
What cops and others who work daily with the homeless know but what the national media will not tell you is that a relatively small percentage of people are on the street with nowhere to go due to circumstances beyond their control. Continue reading
Preparing For Persecution
Since becoming a pastor I’ve been convinced that one of my most important responsibilities it to preach and pray in a way that prepares people to suffer for the glory of God. Suffering – which is a wide and broad biblical category . . . Continue reading →
Memorial Day 2021: The Heidelcast Remembers (A Mini-cast)
Stayed tuned for episode 183 tomorrow, Dv. ©R. Scott Clark. All Rights Reserved. All the Episodes of the Heidelcast. How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia On Twitter @Heidelcast How To Support Heidelmedia: use the donate button below All the episodes in this series, . . . Continue reading →
Memorial Day 2021: We Remember
Suicide By Theocracy
If American evangelicalism dies, suicide will be the cause of death listed on the official Coroner’s report. American evangelicalism will likely not die due to external persecution. Historically, persecution tends to strengthen the church. If it dies, it will die because it . . . Continue reading →
New Resource Page: On Covid And Religious Liberty
The Covid crisis has been one of the greater challenges faced by the church in the West in recent years. In the USA and elsewhere it has divided congregations and probed weaknesses in our theology, piety, and practice. It has raised questions . . . Continue reading →
Take That Amazon
It Is Not As Easy As It Looks
Everyone else’s job, the job that you and I are not doing, always seems easy. Continue reading
Understanding Our Brave New World
The “narrative” (as people say) and the algorithm are real. Continue reading