Be a Voice of Persuasion in Your Community Next Month!
Over the next several weeks, Christian North Carolinians will have a number of opportunities to stand up as voices of persuasion in our communities. Look at your calendar and prayerfully consider whether God is calling you to be His hands and feet by participating in any of these upcoming events. 40 Days for Life When: Wednesday, […]
See You At The Pole is September 27
An annual event that features the encouraging sight of students praying at school flag poles all around the country is fast approaching. See You At The Pole, a day committed to global unity and prayer for this generation, is on Wednesday, September 27. Students in every time zone will be gathering at their flagpoles and […]
NC Family Signs Brief to SCOTUS in Major Religious Liberty Case
NC Family signed on to a “friend-of-the-court” brief this week, which will be filed with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the justices to support the religious freedom rights of a small business owner from Colorado in the upcoming case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The High Court is expected to hear the case […]
Encouraging Ruling On Public Meeting Invocations
The issue of invocations prior to public meetings has taken an encouraging turn. As you may recall, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled in July that the Rowan County Commissioners’ practice of holding invocations led by commissioners prior to its meetings was unconstitutional. This week, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, […]
Evangelical Leaders Make Bold Statement on Biblical Sexuality
Prominent Evangelical Christian leaders across the nation have banded together to issue a bold clarifying statement regarding what the Bible says about human sexuality. NC Family President John Rustin joined the long list of signers to The Nashville Statement saying, “God is both love and truth. As earnestly as we desire to show love to […]
Guest POV: Religious Freedom’s Roe v. Wade?
Guest POV columns feature important Points Of View on issues NC Family staff believe are vital to the interests of North Carolina families. John Stonestreet is President of the Chuck Colson Center. This article is a reprint of a recent commentary from their daily radio broadcast, BreakPoint. We’ll be talking a lot on BreakPoint about […]
Rowan County Prayer Saga Continues
An opinion issued by the entire U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit last Friday found that Rowan County’s prayer policy—permitting commissioners to open meetings with prayer—is unconstitutional. The “en banc” ruling reverses a previous decision by a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit and affirms an earlier opinion by a federal district court. This latest action, […]
2017 Legislative Session Wrap Up
The North Carolina General Assembly adjourned the 2017 Legislative Session in the early morning hours of June 30, bringing to a close a productive session that included many positive pro-family initiatives. This “long session” featured a Republican-controlled supermajority in the General Assembly working with a Democratic Governor for the first time since 2012. It also […]
Fourth Circuit Dismisses Lawsuit Against Senate Bill 2
In a major victory for religious liberty, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has rejected an appeal of the lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s Senate Bill 2, otherwise known as the “Magistrates Bill.” This 2015 law allows magistrates and registers of deeds employees to recuse themselves from performing duties related to marriages due to a […]
Huge Day For Religious Liberty at SCOTUS
Americans who are concerned about religious liberty have reason for hope in light of two announcements from the United States Supreme Court on Monday. First, the Court announced its 7–2 decision in favor of a Christian preschool in the first religious liberty case the court has considered since Justice Neil Gorsuch took his seat on the […]