Christian Support For Prison, Police & Policy Reform Under Pressure Amid Crime Surge

Some critics suggest that soft-on-crime policies have gone too far in recent years and perhaps even damaged efforts to help the homeless, drug addicts and prostitutes. The tensions around rising murder rates in major cities around the United States in recent years are also creating hurdles for the loose coalition of conservative, Christian and libertarian nonprofits and billionaires who have collaborated with progressive left activists in the cause of prison reform and deincarceration.

Christianity, Conflict, Crime, Evangelicals, Justice, North America, News, Primary FeaturePaul GladerJune 30, 2022Paul, Paul Glader, Primary Feature, B. Wayne Hughes, Public Storage, B. Wayne Hughes Jr., Proposition 47, Newt Gingrich, Rand Paul, Jay Z, John Legend, Center for Prison Reform, the Sentencing Project, the NAACP’s Criminal Justice Program, the Innocence Project and the Prison Policy Initiative. And these groups have found allies from the libertarian conservative Charles Koch Foundation, Innocence Project, Prison Policy Initiative, Charles Koch Foundation, Prison Fellowship, Charles Colson, Clark Neily, Cato institute, Safehome.org, Public Policy Institute of California, Heather Rice-Minus, Barna Group, Raj Vaswani, Gavin Newsom, Tracy mccray, Chesa Boudin, Home Depot, Target, CVS, TJ Maxx, London Breed, David Gilbert, Katherine Boudin, Charles Barkley, Orange County Rescue Mission, Jim Palmer, Jerry Brown, Mark Zuckerberg, B. Wayne Hughes Sr., Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Meg Whitman, Reed Hastings, Nicholas Pritzker, Molly Munger, Cari Tuna, Dustin Moskovitz, Serving California, Jim Forbes, James Ackerman, Tim Scott, Herschel Walker, mike pence, Zenger, zenger, ZengerNews, zenger news, RechargeComment

Children In California Can Now Make Life-altering Decisions Without Parents’ Knowledge

(OPINION) A new bill Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced in California would allow children access, without parental consent or knowledge, to sex-change operations, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and abortions through their family’s insurance plan.

Inside the Supreme Court order reversing California’s indoor worship ban

(ANALYSIS) The Supreme Court recently reversed California’s discriminatory ban on indoor worship in a case brought by two churches against Governor Gavin Newsom. Here’s what the justices had to say, and what rules houses of worship must comply with during the pandemic.

Analysis, Politics, Opinion, Art and MusicChelsea Langston BombinoFebruary 8, 2021Chelsea Langston Bombino, California indoor worship, Gavin Newsom, indoor worship ban, Supreme court Comment

Religious Freedom Lately: love jihad in India, an anti-Semitic town and more

Jews are fed up with being told where they can worship and what they can build, and the Department of Justice has swept in to have their back. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives is having a rare moment of bipartisan unity begging other countries to stop persecuting religious minorities. In India, fears of “love jihad” have fueled a new anti-conversion law in the country’s most populous state, appeasing Hindu nationalists. Finally, California churches have won a step forward in a lawsuit against the governor.

Evangelical leaders talk COVID restrictions and religious freedom

Prominent evangelicals Francis Chan, John MacArthur, Sam Rodriguez, Andy Stanley and religious freedom experts weighed in on how churches should navigate changing COVID-19 guidelines that some say unfairly target houses of worship.

Should Churches Like John MacArthur's Resist COVID-19 Restrictions?

(OPINION) Governments have often overstepped their bounds in restricting religious gatherings more than other types of gatherings in restaurants, protests or casinos. Media has unfairly blamed churches for spreading COVID-19 cases when they make up a tiny portion of the overall case spread. But should churches defy orders and worship in-person?

North America, Opinion, PoliticsPaul MarshallSeptember 2, 2020Paul Marshall, COVID-19, pandemic, church during coronavirus, restrictions on gatherings, online worship, New York Times, Bill DeBlasio, Gavin Newsom, John MacArthur, brad littlejohn, Christianity Comments

John MacArthur, Grace Community Church Defy California To Hold Worship

Pastor John MacArthur and Grace Community Church ignored California’s orders to host services indoors without masks or social distancing. The church filed a lawsuit against California officials, saying that state-mandated restrictions to prevent COVID-19 violate the state’s constitution.

News, North AmericaChristina Darnell and Jillian CheneyAugust 17, 2020John MacArthur, Grace Community Church, Christina Darnell, Jillian Cheney, COVID-19, constitution, Gavin Newsom, Xavier Becerra, Eric Garcetti, Sun Valley, Secondary FeatureComment

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