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Joe Thorn is the founding and Lead Pastor of Redeemer Fellowship in St. Charles, IL, which is a part of the Southern Baptist Convention. The author of the books Note to Self: The Disciple of Preaching to Yourself and Experiencing the Trinity, he has contributed articles to the ESV Men’s Devotion Bible, The ESV Story Bible, and The Mission of God Study Bible. Along with writing at Joethorn.org, he’s been a regular contributor to For The Church and Ligonier, and has been featured on Founders Ministries and The Gospel Coalition. This past summer, Thorn’s daughter, Katherine, ‘married’ her lesbian partner...

Riverview Mayor Mike Cornell Jr. was arrested and charged Thursday, according to St. Louis County Police. St. Louis County Prosecutors charged the 39-year-old mayor with four counts of second-degree statutory sodomy, three counts of first-degree sodomy or attempted sodomy, one count of first-degree harassment and one count of possession of child pornography. St. Louis County Police said Thursday there were four victims, including two minors under the age of 17, and the timeframe these alleged crimes took place was between December 2016 and the present day. According to the St. Louis County Police’s probable cause statement, Cornell committed forcible sex...

VIDEOIf you are already irked by the title of this video as somehow being "clickbait" I too would have that attitude UNTIL I watched the video. As most of the Spanish speaking world (and many in the English speaking world) now realize, the plucking of Dictator Nicolas Maduro out of Venezuela in the early morning hours of January 3, 2026 was facilitated by a deal arranged by Special Envoy Rick Grenell with Venezuelan Vice President (now acting President) Delcy Rodriguez and her brother, Jorge Rodriguez, who is the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly. Famous Peruvian journalist Jaime Bayly who...

It was likely one of the last pieces of city policy passed that winter, just before the New Year, a parting gift from a progressive city council. On December 30, 1975, Minneapolis became the first city to adopt a trans-inclusive LGBTQ+ non-discrimination ordinance. Fifty years later, the United States still lacks similar protections on a federal level.

The approval of the synodal document, last October 25, by the synod of Italian bishops, which in fact clears the sin of sodomy, testifies even more that the apostasy prophesied in the third secret of Fatima is in action. «The apostasy within the Church is the most serious and shocking thing» that emerges from the 20th century Marioophany. «Cardinal Ciappi, who had read the Third Secret, specified that the Virgin had said that the apostasy would begin at the summit of the Church». Every Catholic today is called to bear witness to the Truth and to oppose this Masonic fringe...

Gov. Greg Abbott originally called for the removal of rainbow crosswalks and other symbols of pride from public roads across Texas on Oct. 8, saying they pose safety concerns and misuse taxpayer dollars. In a statement, Abbott said any city that does not comply within 30 days could risk the “withholding or denial of state and federal road funding and suspension of agreements with TxDOT.” Almost a month later, the City of Dallas has submitted a request for an exception from compliance with the standards outlined in the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) October letter. "The City of Dallas installs...

A Maryland mayor’s decision to eliminate the city’s only rainbow crosswalks has become the latest flash point in a nationwide campaign to strip LGBTQ+ symbols from public spaces. The Salisbury crosswalks, installed in 2018 and repainted each year by volunteers, were removed on November 11 after Salisbury Mayor Randy Taylor ordered crews to mill away the paint at dawn, The Washington Post reports. Taylor, who narrowly won office in 2023, said the city must ensure “neutrality” on government property.

A drug-resistant 'super fungus' that targets the groin and bum is spreading rapidly across Britain. Cases of trichophyton indotineae - which triggers unsightly, stubborn skin lesions all over the body - are now rocketing in the UK, despite being virtually unknown just a few years ago. Cases have surged by 500% in the past three years, with one fungus expert describing it as "a really big problem". The infection is triggered by a highly contagious fungus and is typically caught through direct skin contact with somebody who's infected. However it can also be transmitted via contaminated surfaces, household objects or...

[Catholic Caucus] Does Pope Leo condone homosexual behavior? Prominent Catholic scholar respondsEdward Pentin conducts an interview with Professor John Rist, a world-renowned scholar of St. Augustine and the Church Fathers, about recent events at the Vatican.Pope Leo XIV has won many plaudits for aspects of his Petrine Ministry so far — his Christ-centred preaching, personal kindness, and emphasis on peace and reconciliation to name a few.But recent events at the Vatican have heightened concerns that Leo is also tolerating, and perhaps even condoning, elements of the previous pontificate that were particularly harmful to souls on account of the public scandal...

Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, has resigned because the company they sold to back in 2000, Unilever, doesn't want them to be woke anymore. I have to give you the full text because it's hilarious. Grab your popcorn. It's with a broken heart that l've decided I can no longer, in good conscience, and after 47 years, remain an employee of Ben & Jerry's. I am resigning from the company Ben and I started back in 1978. This is one of the hardest and most painful decisions l've ever made. This isn't because l've lost my love for...

In the era of Black Lives Matter when, as the indefatigable Colin Flaherty terms it, “the greatest lie of our generation”—the Big Lie that black people “are relentless victims of relentless white racism, everywhere, always, that explains everything”—has reached a fever-pitch, we would be well-served to revisit an event that BLM and its apologists would undoubtedly prefer we not talk about. The event is actually not just a crime, but a series of crimes so grisly, so literally monstrous, that it has come to be called, “the Wichita Massacre,” or “the Wichita Horror.” This month marks its 20th anniversary. In...

In the early 1980s, AIDS was one of the most feared and misunderstood health crises in America. This News special report, originally broadcast when the epidemic was still new, takes a hard look at the growing menace that had been claiming lives since 1979. The program features the voices of people living with AIDS, giving viewers a rare glimpse into the human cost of the disease at a time when treatments were limited and misinformation was widespread. Some believed AIDS could be spread by casual contact — a reflection of the fear and stigma of the era. More show notes:...

This will come as a shock to at least three of you. Yep, apparently a bunch of the "based and redpilled" crowd in D.C. are actually sodomites with sexual fetishes. More from The New York Times: The most powerful out gay man in the Trump administration is [Treasury Secretary Scott] Bessent. There are a handful of others in the Treasury Department. Other A-Gays include Tony Fabrizio, the president's longtime pollster; Trent Morse, a departing deputy assistant to the president; Richard Grenell, who was put in charge of the Kennedy Center; and Jacob Helberg, an under secretary of state. These are...

Protesters repainted the rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse Memorial in Orlando after state crews painted over it, reigniting tensions over LGBTQ+ visibility. The crosswalk, installed in 2017 after the nightclub massacre, had been removed citing updated state

A one-time Colorado “counselor of the year” is accused of sexually assaulting a female student over several years — and threatened to kill herself if the girl ever came forward, according to police. Cassandra Poncelow, 40, met her accuser in her high school counseling office in the Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colo. — and later began bringing her to her home for “sleepovers,” according to court documents obtained by 9News. The student — who is now an adult — met with police in July and claimed she was assaulted more than 100 times over several years at Poncelow’s...

... the stage at Katy Perry’s Lifetimes Tour stop in New York City. Perry’s concert created a magical night... Jason Ve asked if his boyfriend of 11 years, Arthur Woods, could join them on stage. As Woods made his way up, Ve and Perry sang snippets of “Unconditionally,” “Teenage Dream,” and “Lifetimes.” Wearing matching leopard print outfits, Ve got down on one knee and asked, “Will you spend the rest of eternity with me?” Woods said yes as the crowd cheered for the couple. Perry, visibly moved, hugged the couple and posed for photos...

[WARNING-GRAPHIC CONTENT] A gang of male and female pedophiles subjected children as young as three to horrific sexual abuse in a nightmarish underground bunker, police alleged. The group of seven has been accused of abusing victims, aged between three and 15, with shock collars to the genitals and rape inside a grimy storm bunker in Brent, *** The team of seven, whose victims include some of their own children, used an underground bunker to hide their crimes and the inside of it was straight out of a nightmare. *** The suspects would allegedly arrange and pay for the children and...

The City of Boynton Beach has painted over it's Pride intersection. Officials say it was to comply with updated transportation regulations and address safety concerns. The rainbow crosswalk at

... an opinion piece released at EndTimeHeadlines reveals that one [United Methodist] congregation has taken the agenda to an extreme. With an F-bomb-laden, LGBT "worship anthem" in which a performer loudly proclaims "I'm f****** gay." The commentary said, "It was once said that when the Church stops offending the world, it has stopped representing Christ. That grim warning came true again in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Zao MKE Church – an official United Methodist congregation – recently led its Sunday worship with a profane, self-glorifying anthem titled, 'I'm F****** Gay.'"

“When it comes to the interpretation of the Constitution — the ‘great charter of our liberties,’ which was ‘meant to endure through the long lapse of the ages,’ — we place a high value on having the matter ‘settled right’ ...When one of our constitutional decisions goes astray, the country is usually stuck with the bad decision unless we correct our own mistake” – (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization 2022). The time has come for the Court to do just that — correct the mistake it made a decade ago and overturn the disastrous and unconstitutional decision that legalized...