Category: Classic Citizen
Powerful People
A few days before this issue went to press, I had a conversation with a person who runs an anti-trafficking organization that will be featured...
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Going to Pot
Voters in four states—California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada—voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use last November, despite growing evidence from Colorado showing the policy’s deleterious...
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Come Together
It’s December, and you know what that means—media outlets are about to start publishing a lot of “Year in Review” pieces. As I look back...
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Race
The issues of race, racism and race relations have become regular topics in news stories, the subject of conversation around the workplace water cooler and...
Read MorePrivate Matters, Public Outrage
For Donica Hudson, a trip to the grocery store in Charlotte, N.C., one day in early March was a trip into a future she’d hoped...
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Faith Under Fire
Freedom is precious to those who don’t have it. Like everyone else, I was born with a hunger for truth and freedom. But I was...
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Racing to Reconcile
If you’ve paid any attention to the news this year, you know there’s a problem with racism in America. Citizen asked Ryan Bomberger—who is biracial, the...
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Duty of Great Citizenship
Commencement addresses have become, on far too many American college campuses, predictably star-studded events with equally predictable patterns. Steven Spielberg, James Franco, Oprah Winfrey and...
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Halted In Transition
Moving at breakneck speed, Obama administration officials this year have tried to force schools nationwide to promote transgenderism—riding roughshod over students and parents concerned about...
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How to Minister to Orphans and Their Families
Adopting a child can be a highly rewarding parenting experience. It can also be a hard and sometimes lonely road. Families who are called to...
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From Armenia to America
She peered out from the baby carrier and immediately ducked back in, petrified by the sparrow flitting above. I hadn’t yet told Guyana we were...
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Frozen in Limbo
Four years ago, Brandon and Lisa Laugherty of Tennessee stumbled across a fertility program that revived their hopes of having children, while also opening their...
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Our Finest Hour
Whatever the source of our nation’s current problem with racism—be it a spiritual issue, the government, human nature, the media, or a mixture of all...
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What Has the Great Society Wrought?
In 1966, there was a major revolution in American government that would have a massive impact on millions of families and marriages. It can all...
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Bringing the Bible Back to School
When she hears the buzzword “safe place,” school isn’t what normally comes to mind for 13-year-old Lexie P. As a middle-school student in Georgia, too...
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Legislation and Administration
Has there ever been an election season like the one we’re facing now? I honestly don’t think so. From the primary season until this moment,...
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Liberty Expelled
If he’d only lied, aspiring counselor Andrew Cash could have avoided being expelled from the Missouri State University (MSU) graduate program in 2014. Five years...
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How to Influence the Upcoming Election
All of us want to have influence, and the general election coming up on Nov. 8, is a prime opportunity to make our voices heard...
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Among the Believers
None of us are strangers to the so-called culture wars: the longstanding, passionate, bitter debates over school prayer, abortion, pornography, sex education, same-sex marriage, transgenderism,...
Read MoreSomething People of Faith Can’t Sacrifice
In California, churches aren’t the only groups facing government efforts to force them into complicity in abortion. Under a law that took effect Jan. 1,...
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Abortion Coercion
In October 2014, Pastor Jim Garlow couldn’t believe what the voice on the other end of the phone was telling him. And two years later,...
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A Growing Bond
Three years ago, James Lansberry’s youngest son was born with no movement, no breath and no pulse. Doctors were able to get his body functioning...
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A Kingdom Vision
Citizen: You have an impressive resume by any standard, either evangelical or secular: The first African-American to earn a doctorate from the renowned Dallas Theological Seminary....
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