Kingdom PERSECUTION

From Cracked to Concrete Foundations!

Joel Dahl calls himself a Second Chance Employer. He gives many ex-prisoners a second chance at life by employing them in his construction company, Dahled Up. Joel knows firsthand how hard it can be for ex-prisoners to get a job. As a former prison inmate, he has been there. So he knows such past mistakes...
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Speak At Your Own Risk?

Today's "Profile in Courage" is not about a business leader, but a leader majoring in business at one of America's most liberal universities. Student senator Isabella Chow, at University of California-Berkleley. Isabella is a Christian. And she experienced intense hostility after abstaining from a vote condemning a recent Trump administration proposal. The proposal would adopt...
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2018’s Hottest T-Shirt Contest?

The Kentucky Supreme Court could rule on this case any day. Does anyone care? Hands On Originals, founded in 1985, is a t-shirt printing company in Lexington, Kentucky. Blaine Adamson, a key designer, became owner/partner in 2008. The company was bleeding red, over $500,000 in debt. Blaine cried out to God one sleepless December night....
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Color Me… What???

Lawsuits take many years to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Few are even considered by the highest court in the land. Most parties who prevail in such lawsuits are able to finally breathe a sigh of relief. Or so you would think. Not Jack Phillips. As owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, he had declined to use...
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Don’t Play With Fire!

We all remember one or both of our parents exhorting us with this urgent warning. "Don't play with fire!" We may not have always heeded it... but we certainly heard it. Amen? Why the warning? Because of the expected consequence. If you play with fire, you're likely to get burned. Kelvin Cochran took this warning...
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Nothing Fake About This News

Breaking News... The most intense persecution of independent faith groups in decades... Religious freedom... has... reached the worst level... seen since the... 1960s... https://www.christianpost.com/news/china-trying-to-rewrite-the-bible-force-churches-sing-communist-anthems-227664/ The... government’s new regulations restricting religious freedom... revealed that the plan has taken persecution of Christians ... to a whole new level – as the revised mandate works to actively guide...
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Ready… Aim… CARE!

This post about Kingdom Persecution is not technically about Christian business owners. It is about CEO's of another sort -- police chiefs, sheriffs, fire chiefs and their departments. And it's about their growing interest in a service Christian business owners have long revered: Corporate (or in this case, law enforcement) chaplains. A growing number are investing in...
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Too Soon For A White Flag… ??? !!!

Rod Dreher -- in his book, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation -- wrote: "Post-Obergefell, Christians who hold to... biblical teaching about sex and marriage have the same status in culture, and increasingly in law, as racists. The culture war that began with the Sexual Revolution in the 1960s has now...
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Does Shouting = Solving?

Part of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) has been challenged by Christian business owners. In particular, those seeking an exemption from what has been called the Abortion Pill Mandate. The Mandate requires businesses to provide employees with health coverage that includes abortion-inducing drugs. Whether or not the business owners have a faith-based objection. But the...
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A Thorn By Any Other Name

I have written about religious liberty cases in which the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has been lead counsel. Imagine my surprise when I came across two organizations that consider ADF not only a thorn in their side, but also... ... a hate group. Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is "dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and...
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