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1 week ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
The plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging Alabama’s 2022 ban on gender-altering procedures for children have dropped their suit, the state attorney general’s office announced. The three-year-old challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center and a group of law firms was initiated with help from the Biden administration. The move to dismiss the suit was filed May 1 in U.S. District Court in Alabama’s Middle District. “This victory is not just for Alabama.
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2 weeks ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
The drug mifepristone, known widely as the abortion pill, is much more dangerous than previously reported, according to the largest-known study to date on its effects. The study, released by the Ethics & Public Policy Center, analyzed data from an insurance claims database that included 865,727 prescribed mifepristone abortions from 2017-2023.
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3 weeks ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
LGBTQ activists are pushing legislators in Colorado to quickly pass a bill that opponents say would threaten parental rights and the welfare of minors who question their sexuality. To stop the bill, Christian groups are gathering signatures seeking to raise awareness of its dangers.
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1 month ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
Baylor University in Waco, Texas, is the latest American college to witness what appears to be a wave of Christian renewal and awakening among young people and particularly college students. During what has become an annual prayer and worship effort called FM72, thousands of students gathered over 72 hours from Sunday, March 31, to Wednesday, April 2.
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1 month ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
As Bob Zook sat in his recliner early that morning of Feb. 22, 2024, crushing fatigue pressed hard on his frail body. He had struggled to the coffee maker and then to his favorite chair. Every morning, steaming java in hand, he would sit down, fully on his terms. That day, though, simple physics prevailed over human will. By God’s grace Bob had landed safely in the chair, but he had essentially fallen into it. Ever the problem solver, Bob’s mind switched to planning mode.
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2 months ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
A quarter century after Billy Graham convened the Amsterdam 2000 gathering, which helped prepare more than 10,000 Christian leaders for the task of global evangelism, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is convening another milestone gathering of evangelicals for the purpose of spurring Gospel advancement.
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2 months ago | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
The Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm has launched a campaign asking Congress to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider. “For too long, taxpayer dollars, $700 million last year alone, have been given to this organization that profits from ending life. It is outrageous that promises that have been made for years now have never been turned into real results,” the petition on the website of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) states.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
When Jonathan Pokluda was preparing to speak at a college worship gathering at Auburn University in the fall of 2023, the Waco, Texas, pastor was expecting a respectable crowd: maybe 500 students. After all, it was smack in the middle of football season in Alabama, and the event had only been in the works six weeks. In fact, Pokluda had initially declined on such short notice.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
The day after the January wildfires in Los Angeles County began to rage, Scott Lasch, a BGEA-trained chaplain and a former police officer from Long Beach, California, knew the call would come. The historically destructive blazes, fueled by high winds, roared across thousands of acres and miles of homes and businesses along the arid ridges, hillsides and even beachfronts in Pacific Palisades and Malibu, and in the Pasadena and Altadena suburbs 30 miles to the east.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
decisionmagazine.com | Jerry Pierce
President Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order that bans federal funding and promotion of surgeries and treatments aimed at “transitioning” patients under the age of 19 to a gender other than their birth sex. “Across the country today,” the order states, “medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.
