City Asks Christian Schools to Repaint Snow Plow Art  —  Students at Lutheran High School of Sioux Falls have been asked to repaint their submission on the city-owned snow plow blades for the city -sponsored Paint the Plows event after a group complained about student artwork with Christian themes.  See also the KELO TV follow-up

Human Trafficking Survivors Offered Full Scholarship at Christian University  —  Point Loma Nazarene University has officially launched a crowd-funding campaign today with a goal to raise $40,000 in 40 days to fund the Beauty for Ashes Scholarship Fund, named in reference to Isaiah 61:3.

Women’s College Re-defines ‘Women’  —  Mount Holyoke College announced that the school would accept openly transgender students, including students who were born male but identify themselves as women.  The policy change comes after Mills College in Oakland, Calif., announced this summer it would accept “self-identified women” into its all-women’s school.

Leading Evangelical Ethicist Now Pro-LGBT  —  David Gushee, Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, plans to announce that he now affirms same-sex relationships in a speech to The Reformation Project Conference on Nov. 8.

Transgender Students 2015: Strategies for Serving and Supporting  —  This webinar offering is a sample of content available to university compliance and student life offices: “It could be argued that higher education is just beginning to grasp the needs of a growing transgender and other gender-nonconforming student population on today’s college campuses.”

Of Michael Landon and Brittany Maynard  —  A juxtaposition piece on actor Michael Landon’s protracted and public death 20 years ago and Brittany Maynard’s legally-assisted suicide today.  Maynard is the subject of a well-planned PR campaign orchestrated by the George Soros-funded assisted-suicide advocacy group Compassion and Choices (formerly known as the Hemlock Society).  A possible […]

How Biblical Illiteracy is Killing our Nation  —  This position piece explores the thesis that “Study after study in the last quarter-century has revealed that American Christians increasingly don’t read their Bibles, don’t engage their Bibles, and don’t know their Bibles. It’s obvious: We are living in a post-biblically literate culture.”

Pagan Event?  NJ School Cancels, Reinstates Halloween  —  A day after canceling the in-school Halloween celebration, parents received a note home from Acting Superintendent James Memoli saying the cancellation has been reversed, and the event would take place as it has in the past: “The issue regarding whether or not we celebrate Halloween transcends one […]

  Utah Appeals Ruling in ‘Sister Wives’ Polygamy Case  —  A federal appeals court will review a ruling that struck down parts of Utah’s anti-polygamy law and was hailed as a landmark decision removing the threat of arrest for plural families in Utah.