Washington, D.C. | The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued two 7-2 rulings related to religious liberty that could have impact on Southern Baptists in Illinois. The first involved Catholic schools facing discrimination lawsuits from teachers. The Court found the employees performed religious duties in their work and therefore fall under the ministerial exception rule, which […]
Pastor urges prayer walks after deadly holiday gun violence rocks Chicago neighborhoods
Chicago church planter Edgar Rodriguez, Jr., is organizing Christians to march and prayer walk in the city’s neighborhoods starting July 13, after gun violence over the holiday weekend injured 87 and killed 17. Rodriguez, pastor of New City Fellowship, will start in his backyard in Humboldt Park. After that he plans to move on to […]
High Court strikes down law that could have impacted Roe v. Wade
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote once again in a 5-4 decision that struck down a Louisiana law requiring doctors and others who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within a 30-mile radius. The majority of the Court found the law to be unconstitutional by placing an undue […]
COVID made me plant a garden
When the COVID-19 stay-at-home order was first issued in mid-March, I thought we might all be home for few weeks and then things would start going back to normal. As April faded into May with no “normal” in sight, it dawned on me it would be a long summer. I determined to make the best […]
Equality Act blocked in Senate
The Equality Act was blocked from coming up for a vote in the U.S. Senate by Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) on June 19. The bill passed in the House last year by a vote of 236-173, with a party line vote by Democrats joined by eight Republicans. The bill would add protections for gender identity […]
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