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Turning Point USA — the right-wing powerhouse run by Charlie Kirk — began as a campus crusade for capitalism. Its mission, as recorded with the IRS since 2012, is to enlighten students about “fiscal responsibility” and the virtues of “free markets.”

But in recent months, Tpusa has adopted a cause that’s very different from foisting Milton Friedman on frat boys. The group is putting its cash, and its political cachet, behind Christian nationalism, promising to “restore America’s biblical values.” Indeed, Tpusa has embraced a new crusade to “empower Christians to change the trajectory of our nation.

On the morning of September 29th, six weeks before the 2016 election, Donald Trump was in a conference room at Trump Tower in New York talking to leaders of the religious right about sex-reassignment surgery. In a way, he was bringing about his own transformation. Having quashed the idea that his run for president was a lark or a publicity stunt, having come from behind to take the Republican nomination, and having fought his way up the polls to the extent that he was within striking distance of Hillary Clinton, Trump...

Save the Storks, a pro-life organization partnering with pregnancy resource centers to empower women through education with choice during pregnancy, will be hosting their premier black tie fundraising gala, the Stork Charity Ball, on January 17, 2019 in Washington D.C.

Save The Storks

Together, guests will dine and celebrate the 5000+ lives that have been saved on mobile medical units, also known as Stork Buses. Save the Storks founder and CEO Joe Baker will share the organization’s 2019/2020 vision for empowering pro-life Americans with measurable, quantifiable, and easily-accessible ways to make an impact on would-be mothers and their babies’ lives.

“As hundreds of thousands descend on the nation’s capital on the eve of the March for Life, we’re honored to bring together supporters and influencers of the pro-life movement at the Stork Ball,” said Save the Storks founder Joe Baker. “We want to shine a light on all who have...

By Eric Metaxas

Religion News Service

A new film about Jackie Robinson, titled 42 -- the number he wore during his historic career -- tells the triumphant story of how the Civil Rights icon integrated professional baseball by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. But there's a mysterious hole at the center of this otherwise worthy film.

The man who chose Robinson for his role, and masterminded the whole affair, was Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey, played by Harrison Ford. In their initial meeting, the cigar-chomping Rickey makes it clear that whoever will be the first African American in major league baseball will be viciously attacked, verbally and physically. So Rickey famously says he's looking for a man "with guts enough not to fight back." He needs someone who will resist the temptation to retaliate. Robinson agrees to go along with it.

But where did Rickey get that crazy idea and why did Robinson agree?...

LifeWay, a Us chain selling Christian goods, has come under fire for pulling the film because of profanity and use of a racial slur

A Us retail chain that sells Christian products has come under fire for pulling the Oscar-winning film The Blind Side from shelves, two years after it arrived on home video, because of profanity and the use of a racial slur.

Critics – many of them also religiously-minded – say LifeWay is sending the message that Christians "must be sheltered from the world's realities", after it refused to stock copies of the John Lee Hancock film. Ironically, the Blind Side's $300m (£192m) box office success in 2009 was largely credited to Christian filmgoers: the drama, which stars Sandra Bullock in an Academy award-winning role, centres on a white evangelical family in the Us bible belt that adopts a struggling African American teenager from the Memphis ghetto and sees him...