Seventh Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Religious and Constitutional Challenges to Chicago’s COVID-19 Vaccine Policy
Court finds plaintiffs failed to show how vaccine mandate burdened religious beliefs under Free Exercise Clause or Illinois RFRA Scott Troogstad and over 130 other employees of the City of Chicago lost their appeal this week in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In a ruling issued on December 9, 2025, […]
Read MoreThe Silver Madness of 2025: Markets Gone Feral and the Shiny Metal at the Heart of It
Silver is ripping through the financial jungle, and the herd is spooked. This isn’t just a bull run. It’s a stampede in a minefield. Chart from JM Bullion 12/11/2025 There’s blood in the ticker tape and fire in the eyes of traders who haven’t slept since Halloween. Silver, that ancient, underdog cousin of gold, has […]
Read MoreParents Appeal Dismissal of Lawsuit Over Transgender Rooming Policy in Colorado Schools
Federal lawsuit challenges overnight school trip rooming rules based on gender identity, raising questions beyond religion Four families are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to reverse a federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit against Jefferson County Public Schools. The appeal, filed November 19, 2025, contests the district’s policy of assigning […]
Read MoreParents Appeal Dismissal of Lawsuit Over Transgender Rooming Policy in Colorado Schools
Federal lawsuit challenges overnight school trip rooming rules based on gender identity, raising questions beyond religion Four families are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to reverse a federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit against Jefferson County Public Schools. The appeal, filed November 19, 2025, contests the district’s policy of assigning […]
Read MoreThe Silver Madness of 2025: Markets Gone Feral and the Shiny Metal at the Heart of It
Silver is ripping through the financial jungle, and the herd is spooked. This isn’t just a bull run. It’s a stampede in a minefield. Chart from JM Bullion 12/11/2025 There’s blood in the ticker tape and fire in the eyes of traders who haven’t slept since Halloween. Silver, that ancient, underdog cousin of gold, has […]
Read MoreSeventh Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Religious and Constitutional Challenges to Chicago’s COVID-19 Vaccine Policy
Court finds plaintiffs failed to show how vaccine mandate burdened religious beliefs under Free Exercise Clause or Illinois RFRA Scott Troogstad and over 130 other employees of the City of Chicago lost their appeal this week in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In a ruling issued on December 9, 2025, […]
Read MoreHow Plato and pagan myth shaped the traditional Christian doctrine of hell
Note: After I posted about the differences between the Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort’s beliefs about hell, an alert reader contacted me and asked if I had the specific quotations from Plato that undergirded the traditional (and I would argue extra-Biblical) view of eternal torment. I realized that this is something that a lot of […]
Read MoreUnited in the Gospel, Divided on Hell: The Cameron-Comfort Schism
By Michael Peabody – It is a rare and courageous thing to see a man who is comfortable in the orthodoxy of his peers suddenly stop, look at the text in his hand, and say that it does not mean what they think it means. We are witnessing such a moment with Kirk Cameron. For […]
Read MoreVillage Enforcement of Septic Code Was Lawful, Not Discriminatory, Court Says
Illinois court tosses religious discrimination claim where faith met wastewater management On December 4, 2025, the Illinois Appellate Court ended a three-year legal effort by John Schoff and Jane Stoller-Schoff to frame a zoning dispute as a matter of religious liberty. In Schoff v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, 2025 IL App (1st) 250148-U, the couple […]
Read MoreNativity
The road into Bethlehem ran black under a sky that looked too large for the world. Joseph counted his steps because counting was the only thing that kept the fear down. Mary swayed on the animal with both hands at her belly. She breathed like a woman holding back a tide. The town where they […]
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