Darla Jean Pickett

Christian institutions have spent decades retreating from public life. The result is a culture that treats faith as a private hobby instead of the foundation of ordered liberty.

The cultural campaign to separate children from their parents' values hit a wall in 2026. Parents in 42 states have sued or organized recalls against school boards that hide gender transitions. Faith, not state ideology, remains firm ground for raising children.

The collapse of marriage drives child poverty and government dependence. Census data show married families earn a median income near $114,000 while single-mother households earn about $45,000. Churches and parents must rebuild a culture that honors husbands, wives, and children.

American culture has spent decades treating fathers as comic relief. The data tells a different story. Children raised with involved fathers do better in school, stay out of trouble, and form healthier families of their own.

Public schools increasingly treat children as wards of the state instead of members of families bound by faith. Parents have the right and duty to direct the moral upbringing of their children. When schools hide social transitions from families, they break the natural order.

The collapse of married fatherhood has done more harm to children than any tax policy or curriculum fight. Churches, schools, and neighborhoods must rebuild the expectation that fathers stay, lead, and love.

America's marriage rate has fallen to record lows, and children are paying the price. Policymakers should stop treating marriage as a private preference and start defending the institution that gives the next generation stability and security.

Religious agencies have placed vulnerable children in safe homes for more than a century. Shutting them out over historic Christian teaching on marriage will leave more kids in government offices. Real pluralism tolerates providers you disagree with.

Schools in multiple states are hiding gender lessons and sexual content from families. Parents have a right to know, a right to opt out, and a right to expect schools to stop treating children as wards of the state.

Faith-based ministries have served foster children for generations, but state agencies now punish them for biblical marriage views. Lawmakers must protect conscience rights so religious providers can keep finding homes instead of watching foster beds stay empty.

Schools and corporations spend June celebrating sexual identity, but parents are the ones who must hold the line on what children are taught, called, and given access to without family consent.

The federal foster care rewrite punishes agencies that honor biblical marriage. Children lose homes. Religious liberty loses ground. Congress should restore the conscience protections stripped out this spring.

Mainline denominations have spent two decades trimming biblical teaching to fit fashion, and the result is empty pews, broken homes, and a culture that treats children as accessories. It is time for faithful congregations to speak plainly again.

Darla Jean Pickett argues that American churches are emptying because too many pulpits traded biblical authority for comfort. Only a return to clear, humble, Scripture-backed preaching can revive the faith.

TravelZoo's $1 airport lounge voucher for delayed passengers isn't a luxury perk. It's a basic dignity that airlines deliberately stripped from working families when they invented basic economy fares and called it consumer choice.

Church messaging that reframes abortion as always murder is creating fear in pregnant women who need medical care. Miscarriage, ectopic pregnancies, and maternal complications are suffering when patients distrust their doctors.

Pew's spring report on church attendance shows another quiet year of decline. The numbers are smaller this year than last. The deeper story is what the people who stayed are doing.

The Department of Health and Human Services will issue final guidance on May 14 restoring federal foster-care funding to religious agencies that require statement-of-faith commitments, according to two attorneys involved in the rulemaking.

A federal judge in Fort Worth plans to issue a preliminary injunction blocking a Biden-era HHS rule that threatened federal funding for faith-based foster care agencies, according to three sources familiar with the case.

HHS will announce a final rule on May 7 restoring conscience protections for faith-based foster agencies, letting them keep roughly $380 million in annual contracts while referring cases that conflict with their beliefs, officials said.