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Should Pastors talk about Politics from the Pulpit ?

Should Pastors talk about Politics from the Pulpit ?

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Should Pastors talk about Politics from the Pulpit ?  If so, how and why ?

Paul Batura, editor-in-chief of “Daily Citizen”, weighs in on how much church leaders should discuss elections in our houses of worship.

This interview was included in the Family Life Noon Report on October 24, 2024.

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Paul Batura is a best-selling author, essayist and consultant on faith and values, cultural debates, and family matters. He says his mission while leading the online news source Daily Citizen is to “help Christians analyze the news and current cultural issues through the principles of truth, moral objectivity and inherent, innate natural rights.”  He also has hosted dozens of podcasts in a series “What a Life! Lessons from Legends”, gleaning wisdom from a full range of Christian leaders and influential celebrities.

His recent post on Daily Citizen: “Think Critically. Vote Biblically”

  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-a-life/id1656061243

 

 

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Abortion on the Ballot, in Ten States – 10/21/24

Abortion on the Ballot, in Ten States – 10/21/24

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Abortion is on the Ballot this Election Year

A Family Life Newsmaker Interview

“The abortion industry has been very successful at using fear-mongering as a way to drive voters.” — Nicole Hunt

 

Two weeks from Tuesday, Americans will go to the polls to decide the 47th President of the United States.  Also that day, they will decide constitutional amendments that dramatically expand abortion access in 10 states.

In today’s feature report, Family Life News interviews Nicole Hunt, a policy analyst at “Focus on the Family” on why the abortion industry has been winning at the ballot box — and what pro-lifers can do to reverse the trend.

 

Attorney Nicole Hunt is a policy analyst for Focus on the Family. She joined Family Life’s Bob Price for an extended interview on the October 21 Noon Report.

Resources for more information:

 

Other Family Life News podcasts which discuss how issues will or won’t be decided by “values-focused” voters in this fall’s elections are on www.FamilyLife.org/newspodcasts:

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Capital Connection – 10/18/24 – Religious Freedom, Election Involvement, Divorce, “Gender Care”

Capital Connection – 10/18/24 – Religious Freedom, Election Involvement, Divorce, “Gender Care”

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How NY’s Prop 1 impacts Religious Groups and Churches

Reforming Divorce Laws in PA

“Do No Harm” Report Highlights the Dangers of so-called “Gender-affirming” Care

Why Millions of Christians plan to Sit Out the 2024 Election

 

New York Families Foundation & New York Families ActionChristian watchdogs Jason McGuire with New York Families and Michael Geer with the Pennsylvania Family Institute discuss the weighty issues in the news — from Albany to Harrisburg to the ballot box to your hometown.

Both organizations offer issues-based voter guides and “how to register to vote” information on their websites.

 

 

 

“Capital Connection” with Bob Price airs on the radio and our live streams during the Noon Report and 5 O’Clock Report each Friday. Listen, download or share these conversations anytime, from the “Family Life News” podcast feed.
040: Ten Minutes With…Danny Gokey

040: Ten Minutes With…Danny Gokey

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How do Christians shine in a divisive election year? How does God want you to glorify Him? And what does Danny Gokey want you to remember about his friend Mandisa? Tim from Rise Up talks with Danny about all of the above—in about ten minutes.

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Issues in Education – 10/14/24

Issues in Education – 10/14/24

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“Issues in Education”

Retired school principal and superintendent Ralph Kerr joins us for the Monday Family Life News Feature “Issues in Education”.

This week:

  • Teacher shortages, already significant, are magnified by the number of immigrant children who entered the U.S. in recent years
  • School districts are hamstrung by the multiple languages spoken by their young newcomers, many of whom are not (yet) proficient in English
  • Whether public schools and parochial schools should compete together or have separate leagues and championships — That debate is renewed again
  • How will public schools be affected, depending on whether a majority of New York voters approve or vote against Proposition One on this fall’s ballots

 

 

Dr. Ralph Kerr founded the Teaching and Learning Institute, based in Houghton, NY.  TLI has its mission to influence Pennsylvania’s and New York’s public schools with increased involvement by people traditional family values and Judeo-Christian beliefs.

 

 

 

 

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Vote Your Faith – Millions of Christians will sit out this fall’s elections

Vote Your Faith – Millions of Christians will sit out this fall’s elections

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Millions of Christians not planning to vote this November, could shape election

The Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University study found that approximately 104 million people under the “people of faith” umbrella are not expected to vote this election, including 41 million Christians and 32 million of whom regularly go to church.

Read: Details of this latest research — and its implications.

 

 

Related:

Here is a Family Life Newsmaker Interview on the question of why so many people of faith sit out, letting others determine the directions of their government and their culture:

 

 

 

 

A Christian leader, named Chris Leader, is on a 100-day countdown to encourage evangelical Christians to register to vote this fall.

The “separation of church and state” isn’t in the U.S. Constitution, not in that form anyway.  But Chris Leader says many people of faith separate themselves from political and social involvement. His effort “Vote Your Faith” is trying to change that.

In this conversation with Family Life’s Greg Gillispie, Leader explains how some Christians are being intimidated, so they avoid voting, politicking, or even speaking out on the issues in the nation and in the local community. He points to Biblical motivation to get registered, plus how a better turnout of Christian voters could quickly solve many of the current problems in our culture.

Vote Your Faith offers inspiration, resources and tools to help improve the ratio of faithful Christians who participate in campaigns and elections. (Some surveys show that 25 to 33 percent of evangelicals stay away from the polls on Election Day).

 

 

As of the date of this Family Life Newsmaker Interview (9/05/2024), Chris Leader was about one-third of the way through his 100 Day Countdown to November 5th . He posts a new commentary each day.

Here are links to those (soon to be) 100 commentaries and the Vote Your Faith website.

 

 

 

 
Proposition One – Will New Yorkers add new rights to the State Constitution? – 10/08/24

Proposition One – Will New Yorkers add new rights to the State Constitution? – 10/08/24

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Proposition One – Will New Yorkers add new rights to the State Constitution? – 10/08/24

Empire State legislators have asked New York’s voters to amend the State Constitution.

With a title of the “Equal Rights Amendment” it is getting broad support as a means to lock in abortion as a protected activity. However many pro-family advocates across the political spectrum are now expressing concern about how Proposal One’s wording could open the door to transgender procedures with no parental notification, endangers women’s sports, and could add voting rights for non-citizens. Western New York State Senator George Borrello also tells us that, if this is approved by a majority this fall, it will create big business for attorneys who will file many more lawsuits related to the new Constitutional protections.

Borrello is among the organizers for a public information forum on Prop One. That public meeting was Tuesday (October 8) in Corning, New York. He spoke Wednesday morning about the issues with Bob Price of Family Life News.

 

For further information:

The official text of this proposed Constitutional Amendment: NY Board of Elections website

The New York Times article to which the senator refers

Other analysis of the implications of this “Equal Rights Amendment”:  Olean Times Herald,  WSJ,  NYCLU,  NYFA

 

 

 

 

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Capital Connection – Prop 1, Pro-Life/Abortion Balloting, Trusting the Vote Counts – 10/04/24

Capital Connection – Prop 1, Pro-Life/Abortion Balloting, Trusting the Vote Counts – 10/04/24

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On Our Ballots:  Proposition 1 … Pro-Life/Pro-Abortion …Vote-Counting Integrity

Family Life’s “Capital Connection” — 10/04/2024

Each Friday, the Capital Connection Crew delves into the top social, cultural and political issues in our region and in the nation.

This week, host Bob Price poses these questions to our faith-and-values experts in Harrisburg and Albany:

  • Why Democrats are Winning at the Ballot Box on the Abortion Issue
  • Why Proposition 1 is so Dangerous
  • Has Early Voting Undermined Election Integrity

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jason McGuire is the executive director of the New Yorker’s Family Research Federation [NewYorkFamilies.org]

Michael Geer is president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Family Institute [PAFamily.org]

 

 

 

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Capital Connection – Today’s PA & NY Issues – 9/27/24

Capital Connection – Today’s PA & NY Issues – 9/27/24

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Capital Connection – Today’s PA & NY Issues

It’s our weekly Family Life News cultural/political/social roundtable, for the week of 9/27/2024

It’s “Capital Connection”, the Friday news feature from Family Life News.  Noon Report anchor Bob Price guides our ten-minute conversation, digging into the issues in our two states — and far beyond.

Christian advocates Jason McGuire and Michael Gere have commentary from the two capital cities on these major issues in the news:

  • NY’s regents pause consideration on policies for transgender inclusion in girls scholastic sports, but will such rules be back after the election?
  • Do voters realize that Proposition One may enshrine such gender diversity in the New York Constitution? What will the “Equal Rights Amendment” do to women’s rights, parental rights, and parental notifications about counseling and medical treatments for their children?
  • Thousands gathered in Harrisburg this week. What is happening in the battle over abortion regulations?
  • What do our watchdogs see as trends in legislative priorities this fall, swings in the 2024 election, and voters’ confidence in how the ballots are distributed and counted?

 

 

 

Our guests on most editions of “Capital Connection” are Jason McGuire, the executive director of the New York Families Foundation and New York Families Action, and Michael Geer, the president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute.

 

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An Insider’s Insights into the Secret Service – FLN – 9/19/24

An Insider’s Insights into the Secret Service – FLN – 9/19/24

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Retired FBI & Secret Service Agent Tim Miller

A Family Life News Interview

With two close-calls on the life of Donald Trump within two months, retired Secret Service agents are speaking out about the dangers to elected leaders, political candidates and their families.

One of those with an insider’s insight is Tim Miller, who had twin careers in the FBI and the Secret Service.
Family Life News Anchor Bob Price talked with Miller from his Florida home, just five miles from the golf course that made international news this past weekend.

Tap “play” on the podcast player for an extended version of this exclusive interview.

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Retired Secret Service agent Tim Miller now operates an international security enhancement firm. He uses his decades-long experience to provide training and consultations to help churches, schools and businesses to stay safer.

Podcasts of the Family Life Noon Report and the Family Life 5 O’Clock Report are available each weekday from www.FamilyLife.org/newspodcasts.

 

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