Josh Benner

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  • Popular pastor prays with President Trump during unannounced visit

    On Sunday, President Trump made an unannounced visit to McLean Bible Church where David Platt, one of the most well known and respected pastors in American evangelicalism prayed for the president. Politics aside, for Christians, we are called to pray for our leaders. President Trump did not make any public remarks at the church service.…

  • Investigation deems allegations against Willow Creek founder as credible

    An independent council released a report yesterday, regarding sexual misconduct allegations made against Bill Hybels, the founding pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, a megachurch in suburban Chicago. Hybels stepped down last spring, a few weeks after the sexual misconduct allegations against him were made public.

  • Bill protecting babies born alive in abortion attempts FAILS in the Senate

    The senate voted on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act today. It was a bill that would have required medical care for babies who survive failed abortion attempts. This bill should not be controversial. It should have 100 votes. It didn’t need 100 though. It needed 60. And the bill couldn’t even get that.…

  • Legal victory for Christian organization at the University of Iowa

    A Christian organization at the University of Iowa had a legal win this week. The University of Iowa has a human rights policy to which it holds registered student organizations. In this policy, it disallows students organizations from treating people different based on: “race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy, disability, genetic information, status…

  • Despite having done nothing wrong, backlash continues against Kentucky students

    Truth matters. Or at least, it should. There was a firestorm last weekend as attention was drawn to a group of young men from a Catholic school in Kentucky who attended the March for Life in Washington. In particular, a picture of one of the students went viral. The original narrative was that the students…