Remembering Tom Minnery, a Brilliant and Kind Servant Leader







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Remembering Tom Minnery, a Brilliant and Kind Servant Leader

By: Daily Citizen Staff




It will be the rare Daily Citizen reader who knows the complete history of this publication’s noble heritage. DC is the grandchild of Citizen magazine which debuted in October 1987 as a humble two-color newsletter. Years later, it grew into a full-color, influential magazine that was read around the world. With the evolution of how we all consume media now, DC is the online version you enjoy today.



Tom Minnery, who abruptly went to be with Jesus on Christmas Eve as a result of a tragic ice-skating accident while visiting family, was the founding editor of Focus on the Family’s Citizen magazine. Here is Tom’s inaugural Citizen column, which he entitled “Off and Running.” Yes, we were.


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Kirk Cameron Declares ‘Win’ Over Public Libraries That Tried to Censor His Faith-Based Book



By: Zachary Mettler







Just recently, the Daily Citizen brought you the story of how dozens of public libraries around the country attempted to censor Kirk Cameron’s new faith-based book about the fruits of the spirit as described in Galatians 5:22-23.


As You Grow has been published by the new conservative publishing company Brave Books which describes Cameron’s new illustrated book as a “fun story with brilliant art [that] teaches the Biblical truths of the Fruit of the Spirit.”


Kirk Cameron is an American actor and evangelist, known for playing Mike Seaver on the ABC sitcom Growing Pains – a role that he received two Golden Globe nominations for – and Cameron “Buck” Williams in the Left Behind film series.


But when Brave Books reached out to more than 50 public school libraries around the country that host “story hour” events, where authors or others can go to read books to children, the publisher originally received not a single reply welcoming Cameron to their library. However, it did receive several revealing denials.


For example, the Rochambeau Public Library in Providence, Rhode Island, told the publisher they were going to pass for the following reason: “We are a very queer-friendly library. Our messaging does not align.”






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The Webb Telescope Confirms the Marvelous Handiwork of God



By: Paul Batura







Tuesday’s New York Times features remarkable and stunning new images taken from the James Webb Space Telescope, the ten-billion-dollar successor to the Hubble Telescope of a previous generation.


“So far it’s been eye candy from heaven,” Dennis Overbye writes. “The black vastness of space teeming with enigmatic, unfathomably distant blobs of light. Ghostly portraits of Neptune, Jupiter and other neighbors we thought we knew already.”


The piece mostly concentrates on the awe and wonder of scientists just digging into the early data and images.


What’s especially telling, though, is that the more the experts are learning from the Webb project, the less certain they seem to be of everything overall.


“Perhaps the biggest surprise from the Webb telescope so far involves events in the early millenniums of the universe,” Overbye notes. “Galaxies appear to have been forming, generating and nurturing stars faster than battle-tested cosmological models estimated.”


He then quotes Adam Riess, a Nobel Physics laureate and cosmologist from Johns Hopkins.
“How did galaxies get so old so fast?” he asks. In recent years, we read and hear quite a bit about “settled science” – a phrase used to put down or shut up anyone who dares challenge academic assertions that almost always contradict God’s account.






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Family Policy Foundation Launches School Board Academy




By: Jeff Johnston







Family Policy Foundation (FPF) announced the launch of the School Board Academy, “the first national training program for pro-family school board members that will be taught from a biblical worldview.” The organization explained that with the COVID-19 lockdowns, parents saw more of what was happening in public schools – and grew disturbed by what they saw. This led to a national focus on schools and school boards.


FPF said parents grew more aware of issues such as “concerning curriculum and ideology in their children’s classrooms,” “boys playing on girls’ sports teams,” and “students being encouraged to ‘socially transition’ their gender without parental knowledge.”


The organization said, “We’ve heard from anguished parents and grandparents from across the country – and even school board members themselves – all asking for help. And we’ve listened!”


FPF Vice President of Education Amanda Banks told us more about why the group launched the new educational program: “Bottom line: The outreach, questions and concerns from parents and concerned citizens led us to the conclusion that we could be part of the solution. Drawing on our experience training state legislators through the Statesmen Academy and our broad alliance work with national thought and policy leaders, we developed the School Board Academy to bring the best training and resources available to pro-family school board members.”





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Texas Heartbeat Law Influenced Mom to Choose Life for Baby Boy — ‘I’m so glad he’s here.’



By: Nicole Hunt








A Texas mother of three young children found herself pregnant shortly after Texas enacted its heartbeat law. She planned to get an abortion, but because of the state’s abortion restriction, she decided to keep the baby rather than seek an out-of-state abortion. Baby Cason was born two days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe. Now he is a beautiful six-month-old baby.


The New York Times documented this mom’s story earlier this summer in an effort to demonstrate how abortion bans are bad for women. This December, they wrote an update to the story on the same mom, intent again to paint a negative picture of women who have children instead of their planned abortion.


Unfortunately for the New York Times, it seems to have the opposite effect each time it tells this mom’s story. Instead of highlighting how terrible her life is, what’s actually communicated is a story of hope, love and the positive impact of the pro-life movement.


Blue Haven Ranch is the name of the pro-life maternity non-profit that stepped in the gap for Tamara Nelson and her four kids. It’s a Christian ministry founded by a couple passionate about making a difference for moms in unexpected pregnancies who choose life for their preborn babies. Tamara and her kids are receiving help in the form of housing, living expenses, counseling, job training and emotional support. The paper reports that there are currently five women in the program and others on a waitlist. The ministry supports women for two years to help them get on their feet.







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