What Dr. Seuss’ Inspiring Success and Tragic Failure Can Teach Us About Convictional Christianity

Theodore Giesel (also known as 'Dr. Suess') holding a copy of 'The Cat in the Hat'

By: Paul Batura

As pressure builds on convictional Christians to compromise and cede truth for the elusive ideal of community solidarity or unity, an instructive lesson from the life of Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, might be instructive.

Born into a Lutheran family in Springfield, Massachusetts, Geisel graduated from Dartmouth College and then headed over to Oxford to study English. Only he did more doodling and drawing than taking notes during his classes, one of which was taught by the great J.R.R. Tolkien. At the prodding of his wife, uninspired and realizing he was more of an illustrator than a future English professor, Geisel exited the school before graduating.

Arriving back in the United States, Geisel began submitting artwork to various publications. He sold his first cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post. Still struggling financially, the artist took a position drawing ads for a bug spray company, which was owned by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Serving as an illustrator in the advertising department, Geisel began turning out whimsical drawings that would be a foretaste of his style that would one day yield sales of over 600 million children’s books.

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State Attorneys General Sue FDA Over Mail-Order Abortion Pills

By: Zachary Mettler

Three state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over its approval of “risky, untested” mail-order abortion pills.

The attorneys general of Missouri, Kansas and Idaho filed the 105-page lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on November 6, 2023. The lawsuit seeks to block the FDA’s,

2016 rollback of most of the safety precautions the FDA put in place when it approved mifepristone in 2000;
2019 FDA approval of generic mifepristone; and
2021 and 2023 policy allowing these drugs to be sent by mail.

“The FDA has the statutory responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of all Americans by rejecting or limiting the use of drugs dangerous to the public,” the lawsuit says, adding,

“The FDA has failed in this responsibility. Specifically, it failed America’s women and girls when it chose politics over science and approved risky, untested chemical abortion drugs for use in the United States. And it has continued to fail them by turning a blind eye to these harms and repeatedly removing even the most basic precautionary requirements associated with the use of these risking drugs.”

In a press release after the lawsuit was filed, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said that unelected federal bureaucrats “do not have the statutory authority to approve the shipment of dangerous chemical abortion drugs in the mail …

Light beams shining onto a crown of thorns, nails, and a hammer

God’s Holiness Never Interferes with His Saving Grace

By: Daily Citizen Staff

Some Christians are of the belief that reaching the lost with the saving grace of Jesus can be hampered if we also focus on issues in culture related to the holiness of God.

Therefore, they willingly choose not to speak about or to downplay God’s truth on critical contemporary social issues like life, the existence of evil, sexuality, gender, and new definitions of family, curiously thinking doing so will hinder the Gospel. Such thinking is bad Christian theology because it is a faulty understanding of Christ Himself.

The Apostle John starts his beautiful Gospel telling us Christ is the eternally existent Word who made all things, is Lord over all things and life exists in Him. In John 1:14 (ESV) we read this profound revelation,

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

Jesus Christ, the center of the Gospel itself and the very glory of the Father, is full of both grace and truth. Both grace and truth exist harmoniously in Christ. They are never in conflict.

We must also recognize that full is a definitive term. There is no such thing as kind of or pretty much full. Full is full.

Jesus is not more full of grace than truth, nor more full of truth than grace. Jesus, and thus the Gospel itself, are equally 100% truth and grace. Christians cannot choose to prefer “grace Jesus” over “truth Jesus” or vice versa.

High School and Middle School Students Continue Vaping, FDA Tries to Control Illegal E-Cigarettes

By: Emily Washburn

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released last week showed high school students consumed less nicotine this year, while middle schoolers consumed more.

An estimated 10% of all middle and high schoolers — 2.8 million students — reported ingesting nicotine in the last thirty days, according to the 2023 National Youth Tobacco Survey, more than three-quarters of whom smoked e-cigarettes.

Though vaping is still the most popular way for high school students to consume tobacco products, fewer highschoolers regularly vaped (10%) this year than last year (14%).

The number of middle schoolers regularly vaping stayed the same this year, but more reported using multiple tobacco products, raising the total percentage of middle school students consuming any form of nicotine from 5% to 7%.

Health officials have been struggling to clamp down on underage e-cigarette use since 2015, when the popular e-cigarette JUUL hit the market and sent youth vaping skyrocketing.

JUUL is ostensibly a “safe” alternative to cigarettes, designed to help adult smokers quit using combustible tobacco products with cancer-causing chemicals like tar.

When the “iPhone of e-cigarettes” launched, it wasn’t clear how the device would affect kids who used it instead of smoking cigarettes.

Canadian Powerlifter Faces Two-Year Ban for Protesting Males in Her Sport

By: Jeff Johnston

Canadian powerlifter April Hutchinson faces a two-year ban from the Canadian Powerlifting Union (CPU) for protesting against biological males competing in women’s powerlifting.

Hutchinson tweeted out:

“I now face a 2-year ban by the CPU for speaking publicly about the unfairness of biological males being allowed to taunt female competitors & loot their winnings. Apparently, I have failed in my gender-role duties as “supporting actress in the horror show that is my #sport right now.”

Earlier this year, Hutchinson appeared on Talk TV’s Piers Morgan “Uncensored” to complain about a powerlifting victory by a transgender-identified man who goes by the name “Anne Andres.”

In August, Andres set a new Canadian national record in women’s powerlifting, with a combined squat, bench press and deadlift total of 597.5 kg. (1,317 pounds), beating the second-place finisher by a whopping 210 kg. — 463 pounds.

Andres won that competition, which Outkick reported was his 10th victory of the year in women’s powerlifting.

Hutchinson called Andres “a biological male” and told Morgan:

“It’s been very disheartening, that national record that he broke — athletes have been chasing that for years. It just goes to show the physical advantages that a male has over a female.”

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