The Story: “Appeals Court Blocks Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate,” by Andrew Harris and Joel Rosenblatt writing at InsuranceJournal.com. The Lead: The government focuses on the wrong thing – the employee’s use of contraception – and addresses the wrong question – how many steps separate the employer’s act of paying for contraception coverage and an employee’s decision...

By Jessalyn Hutto Editor’s Note: This continues our periodic interviews with women who have been a “Titus 2” women for our writers. We hope you will be encouraged by the example of an older woman discipling a younger woman in the faith. _________________________________________ I was saved the summer before my sophomore year in high school....

The Story:  “Judge Upholds Ban on Gay Conversion Therapy,” by Katie Zezima writing for the Associated Press. The Lead: A federal judge on Friday upheld a New Jersey law barring therapists from trying to turn gay youth straight. Judge Freda L. Wolfson said in the ruling that the law does not violate free speech or...

Roeber, A. G. Hopes for Better Spouses: Protestant Marriage and Church Renewal in Early Modern Europe, India, and North America. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2013. 317 pp. $29.00. By Matt Haste Although many credit the Protestant Reformers for restoring the church to a biblical view of marriage, one prominent historian has recently suggested that their...

By Courtney Reissig We live in a culture that celebrates productivity and efficiency. We like to see results. We like to get things done. We like when we accomplish something big. It makes us feel important. At least it does for me. But here is something I’ve learned in my first year as a mommy....

The Story: “ENDA a Ploy to Use Gays to Saddle Business with More Bureaurqcracy,” by the editors of Investors Business Daily. The Lead: But ENDA isn’t about changing attitudes, or ensuring flourishing businesses. Everything about it is a chaos agent that’s likely to trample first freedoms and trash business efficiency through new bureaucratic and tort...