Arizona Christian University Settles with School District That Rejected Student Teachers — Because of Their Commitment to Christ







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Arizona Christian University Settles with School District That Rejected Student Teachers — Because of Their Commitment to Christ

By: Jeff Johnston


The Phoenix-area Washington Elementary School District (WESD) settled a lawsuit with Arizona Christian University that claimed the district discriminated against the school on the basis of religion when it refused to renew a contract with ACU for student teachers.

Attorneys with the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a federal lawsuit in March, alleging that WESD violated the university’s First Amendment rights with its religious hostility, discriminated against ACU on the basis of religion, and violated the school’s freedoms of speech and association.

ADF recently announced that the school district had settled with the university and would “enter a new agreement allowing ACU students to teach in the district once again.” The agreement “allows for an additional five years, to be renewed annually.”


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Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker: ‘Get Married and Start a Family’




By: Zachary Mettler






On February 12, 2023, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker kicked the game-winning 27-yard field goal at Super Bowl LVII, putting the Chiefs up 38-35 against the Philadelphia Eagles.

But Butker doesn’t only dole out game-winning field goals. He also gives advice to young people about how they can win at life.

Butker — a devout Catholic man — recently gave the commencement address for the Georgia Institute of Technology’s class of 2023. The 27-year-old Georgia native graduated from Georgia Tech back in 2016, before beginning his professional football career with the Carolina Panthers on May 5, 2017. Butker was signed by the Chiefs just a few months later.

Speaking to this year’s graduating class, Butker gave some unexpected — and perhaps controversial to some — advice.

He said, “I don’t care if you have a successful career. I don’t care if you have a big bank account or fly private. Many of you in this crowd may achieve these things. … But in the end — no matter how much money you attain — none of it will matter if you are alone and devoid of purpose.”

“All of you are here today because you are smart, capable and hardworking people. But if we’re being honest, the world is filled with miserable, smart, capable and hardworking people,” Butker added (emphasis added).







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Crazy Mr. Russ: The Gym Teacher Who Changed My Life




By: Paul Batura






It’s “Teacher Appreciation Week” — an annual observance designed to acknowledge the more than four million instructors who shape and nurture the next generation.

We all have our favorite teachers, I’m sure. Maybe it was what they said to us or how they said it. Or it could have been the season of our life — i.e., “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”

I’ve been blessed with many great instructors, but none who have had a longer-lasting and more profound impact on me than Russ Josephs — a.k.a. “Mr. Russ.”

Mr. Russ was my elementary and middle school gym teacher. He left for one year in the middle of that timespan to work on a master’s degree at the University of South Carolina, but came back for grades 6, 7 and 8.

The return from that hiatus will give you a flavor of his eccentric spirit.

Our school was on Long Island in the town of Baldwin, so lots of thick New York accents were all around me. Of course, we didn’t realize it at the time. That’s just how people talked. But Mr. Russ returned with an intensely thick drawl, almost as if he were straight out of a Civil War saga.

We were shocked, mesmerized and amused. He carried on the charade for months before finally admitting it was a joke.







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Christian Scouting Group — Trail Life USA — Celebrates 1,000th Troop




By: Jeff Johnston






Trail Life USA, a Christian scouting group for boys and young men, celebrated a milestone last week, announcing the formation of its 1,000th Troop. In a statement about the achievement, the group said:

“Trail Life offers boy-focused, adventure-driven solutions delivered in the context of a Christian worldview that encourage boys to embrace what makes them unique and build strong relationships with other boys, mentors, and most importantly, Christ.”

The organization has grown rapidly from its start in 2014, and it has another 150 Troops “currently in the process of being chartered,” The Christian Post reported.

Trail Life CEO Mark Hancock explained the goals of the organization: “The Trail Life mission is to guide generations of courageous young men to honor God, lead with integrity, serve others, and experience outdoor adventure.”

“Until the industrial revolution took fathers from the home, boys learned on the farm and in apprenticeships alongside men. Now boys are straight-jacketed into a one-size fits all classroom with few masculine educational examples to model. Boys are falling behind in an environment where they are expected to come inside, sit down, be still, do as they are told, and behave like the girls. Is it any surprise that two out of three students with learning disabilities are boys, boys are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than girls, and girls now lead boys in every academic category?”







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The New Pagan Revival




By: Daily Citizen Staff






Yes, there is a spiritual revival breaking out in the United States, but it is not good news. In March, National Geographic celebrated the fact that “at least 1.5 million people in the United States identify as Pagans — up from 134,000 in 2001.” And Nat Geo is getting all evangelical about this revival, telling readers “Here’s how to immerse yourself in the cultural traditions of Pagan communities” with notices to local events. They also offer definitions to essential pagan terms like “wiccan,” “druid,” “heathen” and “witchcraft” that they believe folks should familiarize themselves with.

The conservative Jewish magazine Commentary is also recognizing the revival with a cover story “The Return of Paganism,” in their May issue. They take a significantly less ceremonious view, lamenting,

“Everywhere you turn these days, pagans are afoot, busily hacking away at the Christian and Jewish foundations of American life and replacing them with a cosmology that would have been absolutely coherent to followers of, say, Voltumna, the Etruscan earth god, or to those who worshipped the Celt tribal protector Toutatis.”

Commentary continues, “If you think the above paragraph is a little bit overblown, consider the numbers.” They cite data from sociologists of religion explaining that in 1990, only about 8,000 Americans practiced some form of paganism. In 2008, that number shot up to 340,000 Americans practicing some form of naturalistic religion. They concur with National Geographic that the pagan faithful now number 1.5 million, making it one of America’s fastest growing faith practices.







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