Hot Take – It’s Not Judgmental to Want to Heal Disabilities







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Hot Take — It’s Not Judgmental to Want to Heal Disabilities

By: Emily Washburn


Stunt philanthropist and YouTube’s second-most popular creator MrBeast teamed up with ophthalmologist Jeff Levenson to give 1,000 people free cataract surgery last year. The video of the event, which the YouTuber released earlier this year, inspired 766 people to donate $400,000 to SEE International, a non-profit providing eyecare and low-cost cataract surgery around the world.

Most people seemed to like the video for what it was — a wholesome story about people using their wealth and knowledge to help sick people. Others, however, claimed Levenson and MrBeast were ableist, believing disabled people are less valuable than non-disabled people. Critics’ position stems from the fundamentally flawed idea that disabilities are part of someone’s immutable identity. By healing or celebrating a person’s healing from disabilities, the argument goes, people are implying a disabled person isn’t valuable until they’re healed.

“The biggest problem with wanting to ‘cure’ blindness is that it reinforces a moral superiority of sorts by those without disability over those who are disabled,” journalist Steven Aquino explains critics’ argument in a TechCrunch article disparaging the video. Aquino further claims the video was made “for abled people to feel good about themselves and about disabled people striving to become more like them — more normal.”


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Candace Cameron Bure Announces Great American Family’s 20 New Faith and Family-Friendly Christmas Movies




By: Nicole Hunt






Candace Cameron Bure, the chief creative officer at Great American Family, just announced the network’s 20 new faith and family-friendly Christmas movies.

This is the third annual Great American Christmas, promising to be the best yet as the network continues to deliver television programming enjoyable for the whole family.

Great American Family launched its first Christmas movie premier of this season on October 13.

The network will air new movies every weekend until Christmas and will have Christmas programming 24/7 until the end of the year.

Viewers of this year’s Christmas lineup will see many familiar faces like Candace Cameron Bure, Danica McKellar, Lori Loughlin, Daniel Lissing, Jill Wagner, Paul Greene, Jen Lilley, Trevor Donovan, Merritt Patterson, Casey Elliott, and many others.

This year will also feature some new talent, including Candace Cameron Bure’s daughter, Natasha Bure, who will lead in A Christmas for the Ages airing the Sunday after Thanksgiving.

Candace Cameron Bure’s My Christmas Hero and Danica McKellar’s A Royal Date for Christmas will also air on Thanksgiving weekend.

Fans of When Calls the Heart can watch Daniel Lissing and Lori Loughlin on Great American Family in November.







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‘Freedom March’ in Dallas — Leaving Homosexuality and Transgenderism to Follow Christ




By: Jeff Johnston






Men and women from across the country marched to Klyde Warren Park, in Dallas, to worship, pray and give testimonies about God’s grace and power which brought them out of homosexuality and transgenderism.

The event was sponsored by Rainbow Revival — Freedom March, which explains its purpose:

“Freedom March is a diverse group of Jesus followers who have been delivered from LGBTQ identities. Our mission is to share, gather, and activate. We accomplish this mission by sharing testimonies of freedom, as we gather together in local cities, calling the body of Christ to activation in loving their LGBTQ neighbor with the truth of transformation.”

In addition to the march and rally, Freedom March “celebrated with praise, worship, prayer, evangelism, testimonies and baptisms over five days at Dallas-area churches,” CBN News reported.

CBN explained the historic significance of Klyde Warren Park:

“It was the exact spot where a gospel music festival attended by 150,000 in 1972 led Time magazine to feature the “Jesus People” on its cover. Four days preceding the massive 1972 Jesus gathering, the late Dr. Billy Graham and Campus Crusade For Christ’s Bill Bright preached at Explo ’72 in Dallas.”

Lindsey Kiser was one of those who spoke at the event, CBN reported, saying “her former identity as a lesbian faded over time as Jesus revealed truth to her.”







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Harry Potter’s J.K. Rowling and the Call for Gumption in Today’s Culture




By: Paul Batura






Joanne Rowling, better known as the bestselling author and outspoken culture watcher “J.K. Rowling,” knows a lot about the importance of guts and gumption.

After finishing her first Harry Potter manuscript back in 1995, Rowling and her agent suffered through dozens of publisher rejections.

Some were turned off by the setting of a boarding school in the book, others found the storytelling inferior — or just too long.

When Bloomsbury Publishing finally signed the fledgling author, they agreed to print just 500 copies — and three hundred of them were donated to libraries.

Some Christian parents have strong opinions about the book’s theme, but there’s no doubt that Rowling’s tenacity helped turn the project into a worldwide publishing phenomenon.

But the quest to birth a book pales in comparison to the British author’s latest battle — to actually call a girl a girl and a boy a boy.

Posting on X, formerly known as Twitter, last week, Rowling shared a photo of a billboard that read: “REPEAT AFTER US: TRANSWOMEN ARE WOMEN.” Rowling responded, “No.”

It’s not the first time the popular author has stepped into the gender melee. She’s been highly critical of claims that gender and biological sex are changeable, warning that, “It isn’t hate to speak the truth.”







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Parents File Lawsuit Against California for Discriminating Against Religious Education




By: Zachary Mettler






Five Christian parents in California have filed a lawsuit against the state for discriminating against families who want to use faith-based homeschool curricula.

California permits charter schools to offer tuition-free “independent study” homeschool programs; families can use state funds to purchase curriculum and materials, and to pay for extracurricular activities.

However, several charter schools — citing state law — refuse to allow parents enrolled in their homeschool programs to purchase any faith-based curriculum or materials.

For several devout Christian parents — John and Breanna Woolard, Hector and Diana Gonzales, and Carrie Dodson — that won’t fly.

The parents have filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California with the help of First Liberty Institute.

According to First Liberty, each family “faced religious discrimination, including being denied the right to use high-quality curricula that comport with California state standards, simply because they reflect a faith-based worldview.”

“As the Supreme Court made clear last year in Carson v. Makin, when the government provides a benefit, like parent-directed educational funding, it cannot exclude families just because they choose to use that benefit for a religious education,” said Ethan Davis, Partner at King & Spalding. “Religious families are entitled to the same educational benefits as everyone else.”







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