How Adults are Rediscovering Christianity Through Baptism: CBS Reports

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CBS Mornings recently reported that since the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of adults — particularly Gen Z men — have been baptized into the Christian faith.

During its news segment, CBS highlighted a massive baptism service recently held on the California coast.

We have shared before about the “quiet revival” taking place in America and the U.K.

Bible sales in America skyrocketed in 2024, and this year the American Bible Society released its annual “State of the Bible” report that examines Bible use and scripture engagement. The report found, “Millennials are leading the way in this move toward greater Bible Use, and in every generation men are using the Bible more.” The report also found a little more than one in three Gen Z adults (36%) qualify as Bible Users.

While pollsters have reported for years about the decline of weekly church attendance, Gallup announced in June that a growing share of Americans actually see religion’s influence increasing.

It’s good to see more Americans coming to faith in Jesus and engaging with scripture. As President Reagan said during a speech in 1984:

The truth is, politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality’s foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they’re sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive. . . .

Without God, there is no virtue, because there’s no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we’re mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Hopefully this “quiet revival” is one that will continue to spread.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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Watch: Charlie Kirk Discusses Fairness in Women’s Sports at U of A

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In 2022, Charlie Kirk came to the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville as part of Turning Point USA’s “Educate Don’t Mandate Tour.”

Charlie spent an hour and a half speaking to the crowd and answering questions from individuals — many of whom disagreed with him.

During the question and answer portion of the evening, Charlie was asked about letting men who claim to be women access women’s showers, locker rooms, bathrooms, and women’s sports teams.

In his answer, Kirk discussed fairness in women’s sports and said that these situations force women to “live under the tyranny of men who think they’re women”

It’s worth pointing out that most Americans agree that athletes should compete according to their biological sex — not their gender identity.

In 2021 Arkansas passed Act 461 to prevent male athletes from competing against girls in women’s athletics at school. This good law protects fairness in women’s sports in Arkansas.

And in 2023, Arkansas passed Act 317 to protect privacy in public school locker rooms, showers, restrooms, changing areas, and similar facilities by requiring public schools to designate these facilities for “male” or “female” use.

Charlie Kirk was tragically murdered on September 10 during an event on a college campus in Utah.

You can watch Kirk’s remarks from his 2022 University of Arkansas speech and Q&A session below.

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FDA Quietly Approves Generic Version of RU-486 Abortion Drug

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration quietly approved a generic version of the drug mifepristone — part of the RU-486 abortion regimen — on September 30.

Abortionists typically use two drugs for chemical abortions. Mifepristone is administered to kill the unborn baby. A second drug called misoprostol causes the baby to be expelled from the woman’s body.

It is deeply troubling that the FDA would approve a generic abortion drug in light of recent reports on mifepristone.

A study by the experts at the Ethics and Public Policy Center found the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol are at least 22 times more dangerous than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling indicates.

Researchers noted that from 2017 to 2023, nearly one in nine women suffered serious health complications like sepsis, infection, and hemorrhaging as a direct result of abortion drugs.

All of this has prompted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to launch a formal investigation into the drugs and their safety. It isn’t clear why the FDA would approve a generic form of mifepristone if the federal government is concerned the drug may be dangerous.

Since 2022, Arkansas has generally prohibited abortion except to save the life of the mother, and state law prohibits abortion drugs from being mailed or delivered in the state. Abortionists who break the law are subject to criminal penalties. They may be sued for malpractice, and they face professional discipline — like suspension of their medical licenses.

Unfortunately, lawmakers in some states have enacted “shield laws” to protect abortionists who ship abortion drugs across the country.

If an abortionist in one of these states mails abortion drugs to Arkansas, the state’s “shield law” prevents the abortionist from being prosecuted. Groups like Planned Parenthood are also spending millions of dollars to promote abortion to women from pro-life states like Arkansas. That’s a serious problem.

But Attorney General Tim Griffin has threatened to take legal action against companies advertising abortion drugs in Arkansas. The attorney general says these groups may be penalized under the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act. He has also urged the federal government to restrict abortion drugs and let states like Arkansas enforce their pro-life laws.

Abortion drugs end the lives of unborn children, and they hurt women. They simply should not be for sale in America.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

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