Beginning next year, students at public schools in Illinois will study the role of LGBT people in U.S. and state history, after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a controversial measure into law Aug. 9. The new policy, which goes into effect July 1, 2020, affects students of all ages, although the state’s School Code stipulates that […]
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State funds earmarked for abortions
Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced July 18 that Illinois will not accept an estimated $2.4 million in federal funding, so that family planning clinics in the state can continue to offer abortion services. New federal regulations now bar clinics that receive Title X funding from providing abortions and abortion referrals. (Title X is a longstanding federal […]
Bioethicists say ban gene editing
Evangelical bioethicists are calling for a ban on gene editing even as it is being reported that fertility clinics desire to use the controversial technology. Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced in November the births of the first genetically edited children, twin girls named Lulu and Nana. He led an effort in which the girls’ DNA […]
Reclaiming the ‘movable middle’
While analysts talk a lot about the rise of the ‘nones’ who claim no church affiliation, there’s a new, more encouraging group. They don’t dislike church, and they just might come back. A rise in the number of adults looking to the Bible for answers gives the church opportunity to draw more people to biblical […]
Anxiety rises as church membership falls
A recent Gallup poll found only 50% of Americans self-reported as members of a church, synagogue, or mosque in 2018. That’s a sharp drop from around 70% in 1999, a number that had stayed fairly steady in prior decades. The decline matches up with the nation’s “steep increase” of “nones,” or people who don’t identify […]
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