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A student at a prominent evangelical Christian college outside Chicago questioned his school’s stance in regards to homosexuality, which led to an apple being thrown at him on Monday as a “warning against insulting the Spirit of grace.”

We are commanded to teach our children the word of God, but how do we help them to truly see and savor Christ? According to Christian author Ed Stetzer, as many as 70% of those who had regularly attended church during high school leave the church as young adults. This staggering statistic suggests that many children are likely being taught the stories of the Bible in a way that misses the message of the Bible.

A new survey released by the National Home Education Research Institute and Generations with Vision has revealed that a positive teen-parent relationship and homeschooling positively impact both present and future church attendance.

A new report has found that the Common Core does not understand how children learn, ultimately harming them.

Duke University has cancelled its plan to begin Muslim call-to-prayer chant. The school announced earlier this week that it would begin this call over the college's campus PA system every Friday beginning tomorrow at 1 p.m. The North Carolina college campus is sounding the traditional chant from the Duke Chapel bell tower to mark the start of the Duke Muslim Students Association's weekly prayer in the chapel's basement.

A Virginia school district has retracted a policy that allowed it to interrogate Christian homeschool teenagers and their parents about their religious beliefs.

While many believe that the debate over our origins comes from only two opposing sides -- creationists who believe in God's intelligent design and evolutionists who don't -- one man is saying that there are at least six different overlapping categories to consider in the great debate.

A 12 year old boy was ordered by his Middle School teacher to put down his Bible--even though he was reading it during his free time.

The implementation of the Common Core Standards Imitative into the public school system has received significant criticism, and will likely be a hot-button issue this election season.

Bill Nye 'The Science Guy' recently warned that teaching Creationism to children prevents them from thinking critically, thus denying them many academic opportunities.

Last month, we told you about a story involving a Marquette University student who was allegedly told to drop an ethics class if he didn't approve of gay marriage. While not entirely that surprising or newsworthy on its own, the story was punctuated by the fact that the Wisconsin school is a Jesuit Roman Catholic university.

When a Marquette University student told his professor that he opposed gay marriage, that professor told the student that he was "free to drop this class." While this is an attitude that we've come to expect from public schools in recent years, Marquette University is a private, Jesuit Roman Catholic university.

A Michigan research foundation is urging Christian churches to embrace something called "evolutionary creation" that they say will improve the way Christians are seen by a science-loving culture.

An increasing number of parents are homeschooling their children due to growing disillusionment with Common Core public school curriculum.

Gordon College is just the latest of multiple faith-based organizations to receive criticism for upholding anti-gay policies.

Creationist Ken Ham recently spoke out against Pope Francis' assertions that the idea of evolution is "not inconsistent" with God.

Russell Moore, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, recently stated that forcing reparative therapy on homosexuals in an attempt to turn them straight is both counterproductive and "non-Christian."

Delivering an address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pope Francis stated that the theory of evolution does not necessarily contradict the Biblical account of creation

Dove-award winning artist Michael Gungor recently encouraged Christians to unite as the body of Christ after receiving criticism for denying a literal interpretation of the Old Testament.

Jason and David Benham, whose HGTV show was cancelled due to their Christian beliefs, recently spoke at Liberty University and encouraged students to hold fast to their faith despite opposition from the world.

A new documentary released by the Home School Legal Defense Association reveals the extreme amount of depression and anxiety experienced by students over the Common Core.

The Common Core State Standards continue to frustrate parents and teachers across the United States who say the curriculum is inconsistent and incoherent in the way it introduces Mathematical and English skills to children.

A senator in South Carolina recently warned that Darwinism is fast replacing Christianity in the public school system and that courts have placed unconstitutional restrictions on the search for scientific truth.

Hundreds of Colorado highschool students recently protested a proposed History curriculum change which would focuses positive aspects of American history rather than those which "condone civil disorder."

The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is fighting back after a Southern California charter school purged books by Christian authors from its shelves, including Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom's "The Hiding Place."