What a difference one day makes. For this Christian business owner, it happened -- again -- the same day he got good news. The good news in June 2017? The U.S. Supreme Court had agreed to consider his case. He didn't yet know the outcome. It was simply good news that the highest court of...
Many of the confrontations over religious liberty in our day center around LGBTQ issues. More specifically, whether or not Christian business owners can be forced to provide services for events that violate their deeply-held religious beliefs -- i.e., same-sex marriage and gender transition, to name two. Such confrontations have manifested in both the judicial and...
Religious liberty battles are often fought in courtrooms. Where the actions of individuals and/or government officials are brought under the scrutiny of judges charged with interpreting and administering the laws of the land. Judges are human beings, of course. With their own worldview. We all have one. It's the lens through which we see and...
It wasn't that people didn't like their pot. They just didn't like their morals. They were too... ... goody-two-shoes. Not today's pot, legalized in thirty states and the District of Columbia. A different kind of pot. In a far different place. Time travel back to the third century. The pot-makers were two sisters in Seville, Spain....
Six months in jail + $2,500 in fines + three years of probation... for each day there is a violation. What would you do, if faced with this threat? Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski -- owners of Brush & Nib Studio in Phoenix, Arizona -- face these threats. Because their upscale hand-painting, hand-lettering, calligraphy company...
On Monday, I showcased prolific Christian writer Frank Peretti. https://championsofdestiny.com/darkness-be-gone-light-is-here/ What I didn't expect to find (on his Facebook page) was his September 2016 letter to the Washington State Attorney General. Urging him to reconsider his legal case against florist Barronelle Stutzman. The florist whose case I showcased here on May 30, 2018 and June...
Persecution is defined as "hostility or ill treatment because of religious or political beliefs." My Wednesday blogs focus on how Kingdom (i.e., faith-based) persecution is impacting Christian business owners and leaders in our day. Persecution manifests itself in overt actions that condemn, curtail, deny and/or blatantly punish the free exercise and expression of Faith. But what if...
I am filled with questions. Questions without easy answers. I have learned a lot as I have explored the topic of religious liberty for the last eight months. It's natural that I would have a heart for the marketplace, having worked since I was a teenager. And having served at every corporate level. Frontline worker....
Discover Annapolis Tours, a fixture in Maryland's capital since 1984, was famous for trolley weddings and tours of Annapolis. Making Annapolis a wedding destination city. Until January 1, 2013. Enter the Civil Marriage Protection Act. Approved by 52.4% of voters in a statewide referendum on November 6, 2012. Hailed by gay activists as a watershed...
Do any of us remember what we were taught in kindergarten? Young parents at least know what their children are being taught now. If they're paying attention, that is. Maybe some of it is more rattling than reassuring... ?! Fifteen years ago, Robert Fulghum turned a simple concept into a national bestseller: All I Really Need...
