Is it important that your Christmas purchases come from companies that align with your values? Holiday shopping is right around the corner, and the way we spend our dollars is the most powerful way we shape our culture. This is why Steve Ensley, founder and president of American Family Online, has created and developed the Screen It-Clean It web-search tools. This online tool is designed to help the consumer evaluate companies and make buying decisions based on their own values before they make a purchase.

The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) today announced its representation of John Kevin Wood, and his wife Melissa, in their battle with La Plata High School in Maryland over the Islamic indoctrination of their 11th grade daughter in her World History class. Their daughter was required to complete assignments where she had to affirm that “There is no god but Allah” and the other Five Pillars of Islam.

Collaborative Commonwealth, written by Robert A. Needham JD, who last year spoke at The Future of Money and Technology Summit in San Francisco and is a leader who bases everything he does on Christian morals, values and beliefs, is inspiring people across the country to start a movement. As seen by our recent election, people are fed up with the current situation of how our country is governed and financially controlled. In Collaborative Commonwealth, Robert addresses the current problems and presents viable and Christian inspired solutions in the areas of economics, governance and individual rights.

The Viewster Online Film Festival is a worldwide film festival featuring over 200 indie films from drama to comedy and everything in between. Indie Filmmaker Shane M Pergrem from Cincinnati based True Artists Studio was lucky enough to have two mini documentary films selected out of 3,000 total submissions from filmmakers.

The Texas Board of Education, a group whose decisions can set the tone for school districts nationwide, heard testimony on Tuesday on a new set of school history and social studies textbooks that critics say advances Christian ideology.

Building a “Firewall” in Africa is a partnership of Church of God World Missions, the Department of Youth and Discipleship, and Men and Women of Action. It begins in Senegal, moves eastward to Niger, across to Ethiopia, then turns southward through Kenya to Mozambique. The Firewall Project’s purpose is to build key ministry centers for training, and spearheading evangelistic and discipleship thrusts along this demarcation line. These areas are hostile to the Gospel.

Cleveland, TN–People for Care and Learning (PCL) recently launched a social media initiative to spark local support for the remaining Build a City houses in need of construction. The initiative carries the hashtag #last300.

Since 2010, Houston area churches have provided an alternative to frenzied Christmas shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. Continuing this tradition, Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church (MDPC), Beacon of Light Christian Center, St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, St. Francis Episcopal Church, West University Baptist Church, Crosspoint Church and The Woodlands Community Presbyterian Church, are each scheduling community service projects on Friday, November 28. Also, this year the Christian community in Seattle can join parishioners from Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church who will be helping the homeless at the St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle food bank. These churches ask families and individuals to celebrate Bless Friday® as an alternative to Black Friday.

It took one miracle to revive Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro after 45 minutes without a pulse or heartbeat.