Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>&#8216; campaign hired Rev. Jennifer Butler on Wednesday as its national faith engagement director. The leftist activist claims that Christianity has been &#8220;hijacked by white supremacists&#8221; and believes the Democratic ticket gives Christians &#8220;an opportunity to reclaim faith for justice.&#8221;
Butler is a minister in the liberal Presbyterian Church (USA) denomination and founded the leftist think tank and activist group, <a href="https://www.faithinpubliclife.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faith in Public Life</a>, in 2005, Religion News Service <a href="https://religionnews.com/2024/08/28/harris-walz-campaign-hires-rev-jen-butler-longtime-religious-advocate-to-lead-faith-outreach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Faith in Public Life has campaigned for leftist policies on issues ranging from immigration and voting to abortion and LGBT rights. Now, the PC USA minister directs most of her public comments toward attacking Republicans and condemning &#8220;Christian nationalism.&#8221;
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-camp-hires-activist-reverend-who-claims-christianity-has-been-hijacked-by-white-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that in 2022, Butler wrote a response to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot and the months of Congressional hearings that took place after and claimed that &#8220;white supremacists&#8221; were &#8220;hijack[ing]&#8221; the Christian faith. She also called on Christians to &#8220;denounce Christian nationalism.&#8221;
&#8220;We must do more than just watch the January 6th hearings aghast. We cannot allow our faith to continue to be hijacked by white supremacists covered in religious language,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;For the sake of our faith and our democracy, we must denounce Christian nationalism and reclaim a faith that values and affirms the human dignity of all people. Including our own.&#8221;
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Butler also <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CRW2dD0htZj/?igsh=MWgyZGo1aTQ0NXpoeQ%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reposted</a> a tweet in 2021 that said, &#8220;It&#8217;s impossible to follow Jesus and not embrace CRT [Critical Race Theory]. Pass it on.&#8221;
In November 2023, Butler <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CzWk0xaAboB/?igsh=YmpvdWxsbWoyNHF6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Republican and devout Christian Rep. Mike Johnson&#8217;s election as Speaker of the House &#8220;a threat to global democracy.&#8221; She argued that Johnson represents political leaders who manipulate religion and called on &#8220;religious communities in the US&#8221; to &#8220;challenge the growth of Christian nationalism.&#8221;
Two years prior, in November of 2021, Butler joined a list of faith leaders who <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CWeCGSoPtw8/?igsh=MWNzdjYwMDZzYmh2ZA%3D%3D&amp;img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemned</a> the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse after he shot three protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in self-defense. Butler accused Rittenhouse of &#8220;murdering&#8221; the two men who died after they were shot and called the not-guilty verdict &#8220;the newest face of an old evil.&#8221;
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Butler said that Christianity &#8220;has long been used to justify the oppression of others,&#8221; adding, &#8220;As Christians, particularly as White Christians in this country… we need as Christians to speak more loudly about what our faith – that our faith calls us to resist the pharaohs, the Egyptian kings, the Roman Caesars of our day.&#8221; On Wednesday, Butler <a href="https://x.com/RevJenButler/status/1828858838700675520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> the majority of Christians who believe abortion is murder, posting on X, &#8220;Being anti-Abortion was always a fig leaf for racism and anti-regulation/taxation agenda.&#8221;
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Butler was arrested in 2017 while protesting on Capitol Hill when Republicans were pushing to repeal provisions in the Affordable Care Act. She claimed that a repeal of the Affordable Care Act would kill people.

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Meet The Kamala Campaign’s New Faith Leader Who Believes Christianity Has Been ‘Hijacked By White Supremacists’

Meet The Kamala Campaign's New Faith Leader Who Believes Christianity Has Been 'Hijacked By White Supremacists'

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Adapted from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1560-rfk-jr-trump-join-forces-against-the-woke-left" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Michael Knowles Show,”</a> August 26, 2024.
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The Free Press published an excellent article over the weekend by my friend Maddy Kearns, who has been on my <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-michael-knowles-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a> a number of times. I saw it at the top of the Drudge Report; it’s gone absolutely viral. Kearns’ piece is about women wearing veils at church — quite a niche issue. So why on earth would this make it to the top of the Drudge Report? Why would it go viral? Because it speaks to something really profound that is happening in religion and in politics.
The <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/the-young-catholic-women-bringing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a>, “The Young Catholic Women Bringing Back Veils: A new generation of worshippers is longing for a ‘lost type of Catholicism’,” explores why young Catholic women have begun wearing veils in church in recent years. While Catholics are not the only ones who wear veils or cover their heads at church, we are most often the ones thought of first. Veil wearing comes from <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20corinthians%2011&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1 Corinthians, chapter 11, verse 4</a>: “Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is the same as having her head shaved.” More broadly, the first letter to the Corinthians is about the relation of man to woman and man to God, and it explains how we can symbolize this in our lives.
But in the 1960s, a radical shift occurred inside the Catholic Church, outside the Catholic Church, and in secular society that it would be a good idea to sever our connection to the past. This shift was not solely supported by the hippies in drum circles with flowers in their hair. This happened in every institution throughout the West. Even in the most enduring and ancient institution in the world, the Catholic Church, a major liturgical reform took place. They upended the mass of the ages and the way the mass had been celebrated for at least 1,400 years — and really even earlier than that. They just kind of upended the past, which involved some radical changes, including encouraging women to stop wearing veils.
Now people are realizing that there is usually a reason that things that endure for millennia endure. Maybe when a tradition persists for many centuries or millennia, there is a reason. Maybe we do not have a sufficient stock of reason that we can just reinvent the world anew so that it will be much better, as though that would be an advisable thing to do. Maybe those older generations knew something that we do not; maybe we are not that perfectly intelligent. Maybe we are not even as intelligent as our grandparents were. And maybe we need to return to tradition. Maybe that would benefit us.
Maybe that is actually the way forward. It is not the way back. It is not regression because tradition is not some dusty old thing. There are plenty of dusty old things that have popped up in history that eventually fell away because they just did not have staying power. That is not what tradition is. In fact, that is what fads are. That is what radical innovation is. All those dusty old things that have been left in the dustbin of history all the way in the past? Those were fads; those were fashions. They were some supposedly genius ideas from some radical who wanted to upend everything — and then they didn&#8217;t work.
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Tradition is not the oldest thing. Tradition is, in some ways, the newest thing, or at least we would say the most enduring. It is what links the past and the present and the future. Maybe there is a reason that Christians have acted as they have acted, believed as they have believed, and lived as they have lived for millennia. Maybe there is a connection.
The Latin phrase lex orandi lex credendi means the way we worship influences the way we believe. Religion is not just a thing you do in your head and you ignore that you have a body in time and space. Religion is a thing that you do. You worship God. There is a difference between praying on your knees, praying sitting down, or praying while you&#8217;re driving. There&#8217;s a difference between saying a prayer you just invented yesterday or saying the Lord&#8217;s Prayer. Our Lord tells us in the Gospels <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%206%3A9-13&amp;version=NIV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">how to pray</a>: “Our father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, On earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread, And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” He tells you how to do it.
Then, going all the way back to the Apostolic Age, the Church in her wisdom established ways in which we can pray. And that&#8217;s going to affect the way we believe. If you receive the Eucharist on the tongue kneeling, you&#8217;re going to believe something about what the Eucharist, the Holy Communion, is. If you are just driving in your car and you stick your hand out like you&#8217;re going through the McDonald&#8217;s drive thru, that is also going to affect the way that you believe because we&#8217;re incarnate creatures and that&#8217;s going to affect the way that you live too.
Maybe these young women who want to return to wearing veils realize something has been lost. Maybe they realize that all the innovation that was supposed to free us and make everything better has actually made things worse. Maybe the real update we need right now is to return to the faith as it was practiced for nearly two thousand years.

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Returning To The Faith: Tradition As The Way Forward

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Spencer Klavan, associate editor at the Claremont Institute and host of the “Young Heretics” podcast, discussed his new book exploring the relationship between science and faith and rejected the popular notion that the two are incompatible on the latest episode of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/sunday-special" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special</a>.” 
During the interview, Shapiro asked Klavan about his new work “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Light-Mind-World-Science-Illuminating/dp/1684515335">Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science through Faith</a>.” Klavan told Shapiro that &#8220;religion has always motivated the best scientific discoveries and how science as it is currently unveiling, the natural world can reveal to us the glory of God.&#8221;
Shapiro and Klavan are also featured in “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/foundations-of-the-west">Foundations of the West</a>,” the new DailyWire+ docu-series from Dr. Jordan B. Peterson, exploring the profound legacies of Western civilizations and their lasting impact on the modern world. 
“Obviously, the way that many people are taught in public school or have come to believe because of media is that science and reason are completely opposed to faith and religion,” Shapiro said. 
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Klavan said that the idea of science and religion being at odds is &#8220;not just pernicious&#8221; but also &#8220;wildly out of date.&#8221; He pointed to recent scientific discoveries that go hand-in-hand with “the world as described in the Jewish and the Christian Scriptures.&#8221; Klavan argued this narrative creates an unnecessary barrier for people of faith, making them feel that they must &#8220;abandon the most important thing to all of us, which is the life of the soul and the life of the spirit&#8221; in order to be rational.
Klavan emphasized that science itself requires faith principles to function. The Daily Wire host agreed, saying, “The reality is that science can&#8217;t prove itself. And this is something that scientists are constantly attempting to just sort of ignore. But science as a process is not a provably true process. And in fact, the very idea of an absolute truth is a faith principle because evolution, biologists have said many times, does not point to truth.”
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“It points to adaptability. And so you can say that perhaps an idea is adaptable, that perhaps it helps us in our evolutionary fitness,” he added. “But you can&#8217;t ever make the claim that it has an absolute level of real truth. That is a faith principle. And in fact, virtually all of science is rooted in faith principles like that.”
Klavan cited historical examples like Galileo, who defended his observations by saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to insult God by believing that my reason has a hard stopping point.&#8221;
“In other words, if it&#8217;s true that human reason only extends so far and no further, that&#8217;s an insult to religion,” he continued. “The religious point of view at that time, or one at least of the most passionately faithful points of view, was that because we&#8217;re made in the image of God, that classic Judeo-Christian idea, our minds are little microcosms or templates for understanding the whole rest of the natural world. If you take away that religious conviction, you have no reason to believe that or to expect good answers to the questions that science teaches us to ask.”

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Ben Shapiro, Spencer Klavan Defend Vital Role Of Faith In Science: ‘Very Idea Of An Absolute Truth Is A Faith Principle’

Ben Shapiro, Spencer Klavan Defend The Vital Role Of Faith In Science: ‘Very Idea Of An Absolute Truth Is A Faith Principle’

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Kansas City Chiefs kicker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harrison-butker">Harrison Butker</a> called out a Chicago Cardinal who led the invocation at the Democratic National Convention with his cross hidden under his jacket and failed to mention Jesus Christ&#8217;s name.
In a Tuesday post on <a href="https://x.com/buttkicker7/status/1825984862458613990">X</a>, the Chiefs star shared a clip from the first night of the 2024 DNC in Chicago with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/catholic-theologians-clergymen-accuse-pope-francis-paul-bois">Roman Catholic Cardinal Blase Cupich</a> at the podium giving the opening prayer and the religious leader’s pectoral cross could not be seen because it was tucked inside the Cardinal&#8217;s jacket.
“America needs more Jesus not less,” Butker’s post read. “We need our shepherds to fearlessly lead and not be afraid to proclaim that Christ is King.”
“It starts with bishops boldly wearing their pectoral cross outside their jackets,” he added.
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America needs more Jesus not less. We need our shepherds to fearlessly lead and not be afraid to proclaim that Christ is King 👑 It starts with bishops boldly wearing their pectoral cross outside their jackets ✝️ <a href="https://t.co/pwY0OTql8L">https://t.co/pwY0OTql8L</a>
— Harrison Butker (@buttkicker7) <a href="https://twitter.com/buttkicker7/status/1825984862458613990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
As Butker noted, the Cardinal faced additional criticism because during his invocation, the name Jesus was not mentioned once, as <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2024/08/20/opening-prayer-at-democrat-convention-didnt-even-mention-jesus/">LifeNews</a> noted.
During this prayer, the religious leader called on the faithful “to root out ongoing injustices in our national life, especially those created by moral blindness and fear of the other” and to forge a “new chapter of our nation’s history.”
At one point, the Cardinal of the Archdiocese of Chicago also quoted Pope Francis, but not Jesus.
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“Hiding his pectoral cross, and never once [m]entioning the name of Jesus, Cdl. Blase Cupich gave the invocation at an event providing free abortions and vasectomies,” The Lepanto Institute, a conservative Catholic organization, wrote on <a href="https://x.com/LepantoInst/status/1825698411800150114">X,</a> pointing out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/satan-is-pleased-riley-gaines-and-more-react-to-dncs-10-abortions-in-first-day" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Planned Parenthood&#8217;s</a> &#8220;mobile health clinic&#8221; blocks from the DNC offering abortions.
Catholic Vote <a href="https://x.com/augustinajjd/status/1825676633354682730">said</a> simply, “The DNC is demonic.”
One journalist <a href="https://x.com/StephenKokx/status/1825685459021812178">wrote</a>, “McCarrick disciple Cardinal Cupich gives invocation at DNC in Chicago as abortions and vasectomies take place just feet away. No sign of the cross. No mention of the Holy Name of Jesus. Pectoral cross conveniently hidden.”
Another person wrote, “Did the catholic priest notice the horrific child sacrifice abortion ritual happening outside the DNC convention or is he just going to ignore that?”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chiefs-star-chris-jones-defends-harrison-butker-amid-backlash-and-hes-not-alone">Butker</a> made headlines earlier this year after he gave the commencement address at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colleges">Benedictine College</a>, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/catholic">Catholic</a> university in Kansas, in which he praised his wife for being a “homemaker,” called out President Joe Biden’s support for abortion, and criticized LGBT “Pride month.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chiefs-star-chris-jones-defends-harrison-butker-amid-backlash-and-hes-not-alone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chiefs Star Chris Jones Defends Harrison Butker Amid Backlash, And He’s Not Alone</a>

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‘America Needs More Jesus, Not Less’: Chiefs Kicker Calls Out Chicago Cardinal Who Led Invocation At DNC With Cross Hidden

'America Needs More Jesus, Not Less': Chiefs Kicker Calls Out Chicago Cardinal Who Led Invocation At DNC With Cross Hidden

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The Daily Wire has an exclusive first look at the <a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/1825886151804137739">trailer</a> for “Average Joe,” the story of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fired-football-coach-to-be-reinstated-after-supreme-court-win">high school football coach</a> who took his fight for the right to pray on the field all the way to the Supreme Court — and won.
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WATCH: Exclusive first look at “Average Joe,” the true story of how coach Joe Kennedy won at the Supreme Court after he was fired for praying at games. In theaters October 11: <a href="https://t.co/CYsfq2AFvV">pic.twitter.com/CYsfq2AFvV</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1825886151804137739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Directed by award-winner Harold Cronk, (&#8220;God&#8217;s Not Dead,&#8221; &#8220;Unbroken: Path to Redemption&#8221;), the film stars Eric Close (&#8220;Nashville,&#8221; &#8220;American Sniper&#8221;) as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/coach-who-won-landmark-scotus-prayer-ruling-steps-away-from-football-to-advocate-for-religious-liberty">Joseph Kennedy</a>, assistant football coach of Bremerton High School in Washington. After seven years on the job, school officials asked Kennedy to stop praying with players on field after games. Kennedy refused, saying he had the right to pray quietly in public. The school placed him on administrative leave in 2015, and later fired him for his refusal to stop praying.
Kennedy sued the school on religious freedom grounds, and took his case all the way to the <a href="https://img.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2022/10/27/19711039654116.pdf">Supreme Court,</a> which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fired-football-coach-to-be-reinstated-after-supreme-court-win">ruled</a> in a 6-3 decision that Kennedy&#8217;s rights had been infringed upon.
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“I’ve been fighting my whole life,” Kennedy says in the trailer, over a montage of him getting in scrapes and serving as a Marine. 
&#8220;So, if you told me that saying a prayer on the 50-yard line was a thing that was going to get me in the biggest fight of my life, you can not tell me that God doesn’t have a sense of humor.”
In addition to recounting Kennedy&#8217;s battle, &#8220;Average Joe&#8221; also pulls back the curtain on its subject&#8217;s life, giving viewers a glimpse at private moments between Kennedy and his wife, Denise, played by Amy Acker (&#8220;Person of Interest,&#8221; &#8220;Alias&#8221;).
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“I made a promise to God. I can’t let him down,” Kennedy tells Denise, who responds, &#8220;God doesn’t need you to defend him.&#8221; 
“I’m not defending God. I’m defending the people of this country,&#8221; Kennedy says.,
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority ruling in Kennedy&#8217;s case in June 2023, seven years after the coach began his fight to pray on the field.
“Here, a government entity sought to punish an individual for engaging in a brief, quiet, personal religious observance doubly protected by the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment. And the only meaningful justification the government offered for its reprisal rested on a mistaken view that it had a duty to ferret out and suppress religious observances even as it allows comparable secular speech,” Gorsuch <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/high-school-football-coach-scores-big-win-supreme-court-post-game-prayer">wrote</a>. “The Constitution neither mandates nor tolerates that kind of discrimination.”
“Average Joe” hits theaters nationwide on October 11.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fired-football-coach-to-be-reinstated-after-supreme-court-win" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fired Football Coach To Be Reinstated After Supreme Court Win</a>

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‘I Made A Promise To God’: EXCLUSIVE First Look At ‘Average Joe’ Trailer

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/candace-cameron-bure">Candace Cameron Bure</a> definitely got everyone’s attention when she announced she will be appearing in not one, but two upcoming Christmas movies this year.
In a recent post on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9TLWytyNnw/?igsh=MTBlZjE4YzMxOA%3D%3D">Instagram</a>, the 48-year-old actress shared news that she has two holiday movies coming out on the Great American Family network as part of its Great American Christmas 2024.
“I’m so excited that the announcement was just made a few days ago about my new Christmas movie,” Bure said in a clip. “I have two Christmas movies coming to you on Great America Family this year.”
“And this second one is with Cameron Mathison,” she added. “Cameron and I have been waiting for probably 15 years to do a Christmas movie together. So, it’s finally happening and I couldn’t be more excited.”
In “Jingle Bells,Wedding Bells,” Bure will star alongside Mathison in the original holiday movie that will premiere in November, a <a href="https://www.greatamericanfamily.com/2024/07/09/great-american-family-announces-original-christmas-movie-jingle-bells-wedding-bells-starring-candace-cameron-bure-and-cameron-mathison-part-of-great-american-christmas-2024/">press release</a> about the “Fuller House” star’s new movie read.
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The countdown is on! <a href="https://twitter.com/candacecbure?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@candacecbure</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/CameronMathison?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CameronMathison</a> team up for &#8216;Jingle Bells, Wedding Bells&#8217; <a href="https://twitter.com/GAfamilyTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GAfamilyTV</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreatAmericanChristmas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GreatAmericanChristmas</a><a href="https://t.co/8K8HxVDkMS">https://t.co/8K8HxVDkMS</a>
— Entertainment Focus (@Ent_Focus) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ent_Focus/status/1812787299987472403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
“Gracie (Bure) is Peachtree Inn’s perfect wedding planner whose mantra is, ‘No problems only solutions waiting to be discovered,’” a press release read. “Moreover, Gracie makes blushing brides’ dreams come true.”
“When Charlie (Mathison) brings his sister and future brother-in-law to their former hometown of Butler, South Carolina, he expects to create a magical Christmas Eve wedding at the Inn for Lindsay and Josh,” it added. “However, the trio is shocked when Gracie stubbornly declines the job, saying it isn’t possible to pull off the perfect wedding just two weeks before Christmas.”
“However, eventually Gracie relents and agrees to plan the wedding, only to discover there are more hurdles to overcome than expected,” it concluded.
In April, the “Full House” star announced that she would appear in a new holiday movie on the network in November titled, “A Christmas Less Traveled,” alongside Eric Johnson, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/candace-cameron-bure-drops-news-about-upcoming-christmas-movie">previously reported</a>. It will also be part of the network’s slate of Christmas movies this year.
Oh my lanta!!” Bure captioned her post, referencing a common phrase said by her “Full House” character. “There is so much going on in Candyland including … Christmas came early with a sneak peek of my new Christmas movie on [Great American Family] called ‘A Christmas Less Traveled’…”
Bure is the executive producer on both films, which is a Syrup Studios production in association with the GAF star’s CandyRock Entertainment, <a href="https://tvline.com/news/candace-cameron-bure-a-christmas-less-traveled-movie-cast-release-date-1235201305/">TV Line</a> noted.
The actress joined GAF in 2022, where she develops, produces, and stars in movies and TV shows broadcast on the channel. The former “Fuller House” star previously said she left Hallmark because she wanted to share “faith-filled” stories “that have more meaning and purpose and depth behind them.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/candace-cameron-bure-drops-news-about-upcoming-christmas-movie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Candace Cameron Bure Drops News About Upcoming Christmas Movie</a>

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Candace Cameron Bure Announces She’s In Not One But Two Upcoming Movies

Candace Cameron Bure Announces She's In Not One But Two Upcoming Movies

Candace Cameron Bure

Christmas movies

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) claimed in her 2022 book that she once performed a miracle, healing a woman with tumors by laying hands on her and praying over her.
Bush, who defeated incumbent Rep. William &#8220;Lacy&#8221; Clay in 2020 and promptly aligned herself with the far left &#8220;Squad&#8221; — originally Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — made the claim in her 2022 book, but it went unnoticed until The New York Post&#8217;s Jonathan Levine <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/06/15/us-news/cori-bush-claimed-to-performed-miracles-cured-tumors-in-autobiography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a piece</a> over the weekend.
&#8220;As I learned how to apply God’s Word to my life in new ways, I better understood the power that was already residing in me,&#8221; Bush wrote in &#8216;The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America.'&#8221;
&#8220;It was there, waiting for me to acknowledge it, to use it. I had the confidence to heal others with God’s power,&#8221; she continued, and went on to give several examples.
&#8220;One woman whom we met had several visible tumors on her torso. She was due to have surgery but lacked health insurance and living in the park. One of the tumors was particularly painful to her. I laid hands on her and prayed, and I felt that my hand was no longer touching a tumor. It shrank along with the others on her body,&#8221; Bush claimed.
She also claimed to have cured a toddler who couldn&#8217;t walk as the result of a brain bleed shortly after birth: &#8220;I carried the child from the prayer room in the back of the church out into the sanctuary &#8230; &#8216;Walk,&#8217; I said gently to the three-year-old girl, &#8216;you will walk.&#8217; And this girl took her first step. Then another, and another. She walked. Her grandmother walked into the sanctuary just in time to see the child take about two dozen steps. She screamed, and then she kept screaming. When she caught her breath, she looked at me in wonder and said &#8216;Praise God.&#8217; She grabbed her granddaughter and walked with her out of the church.&#8221;
According to Levine, Bush&#8217;s miracle claims went largely unnoticed despite her book tour — but PBS&#8217; Margaret Hoover did ask her about them.
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Cori Bush&#8217;s claims of performing miracles and shrinking tumors went almost entirely unnoticed during her 2022 book tour — one person who did ask her about it was <a href="https://twitter.com/MargaretHoover?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MargaretHoover</a> <a href="https://t.co/TDaFocI7Xm">https://t.co/TDaFocI7Xm</a> <a href="https://t.co/oT96BUFhOt">pic.twitter.com/oT96BUFhOt</a>
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1802020130647318957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The pastor of Bush&#8217;s church claimed to have healed the Congresswoman of COVID in 2021 by praying for her over the phone.

House Oversight And Accountability Members And Watchdog Group Court Accountability Focus On Supreme Court Ethics

Liberal ‘Squad’ Member Says She Performed A Miracle, Healed A Woman With Tumors

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The Squad

“The View” host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ana-navarro-goes-off-on-people-calling-on-israel-to-have-restraint-after-savage-terrorist-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ana Navarro</a> labeled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bishop-accuses-biden-of-mocking-catholic-faith-in-viral-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a> the “most religious president” she can recall in her lifetime.
On Tuesday, during Navarro’s appearance on CNN, the &#8220;View&#8221; cohost and former GOP strategist defended Biden against former President Donald Trump after Trump told Christian voters that the Democrats are &#8220;against your religion,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/view-host-claims-biden-most-religious-president-her-lifetime?intcmp=tw_fnc">Fox News</a> reported.
&#8216;It&#8217;s crazy for him to say Democrats are against religion at a time when we are led by Joe Biden, who, in my lifetime, is the most religious president I can recall,&#8221; Navarro told the host. &#8220;[Biden&#8217;s] not a Christian conservative. He&#8217;s an Irish Catholic church-going practicing Catholic.&#8221;
Navarro also called out evangelical voters who are still standing by Trump despite wanting to see the former president take a harder line on abortion. 
 &#8220;I think a lot of evangelicals crossed that bridge already and they did so in 2016 after they voted for Donald Trump after they heard him boast about sexual assault on video and on tape,&#8221; she added.&#8221;
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— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1800560509130784915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
After the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that ultimately overturned <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states">Roe v. Wade</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-releases-long-awaited-abortion-position-says-policies-should-be-left-to-states">Trump</a> has largely stayed out of the conversation only to say recently that it’s a state’s right issue and abortion will be handled on the state level.
“My view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-releases-long-awaited-abortion-position-says-policies-should-be-left-to-states">Trump said</a>.
Trump said he “proudly” takes responsibility for the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe, which happened in June 2022 with a conservative majority he helped put together. He acknowledged that states will have varying degrees of limits on the procedure.
The former president also noted that he is “strongly in favor of” exceptions for rape, incest, and saving the life of the mother.
“At the end of the day, this is about the will of the people,” Trump said, adding later, “You must follow your heart on this issue, but remember: you must also win elections to restore our culture and, in fact, to save our country.”
During his pre-taped address at the Life &amp; Liberty Forum on Monday, the former president <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/why-evangelicals-are-wedded-trump-he-makes-more-biblical-appeal">urged Christian voters</a> to support him in the 2024 election.
&#8220;You just can’t vote Democrat. They’re against religion,&#8221; Trump said to the group, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/he-sounded-more-like-a-politician-trump-gets-hit-by-both-dems-and-his-own-supporters-on-abortion-00162589">according to POLITICO.</a> &#8220;They’re against your religion in particular.&#8221;
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this piece.

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‘The View’ Host Ana Navarro Labels Biden ‘Most Religious President’ She Can Recall

'The View' Host Ana Navarro Labels Biden 'Most Religious President' She Can Recall

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Ana Navarro

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Joe Biden

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-ben-shapiro-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> and Christian Pastor John MacArthur called for a return to biblical morality amid plummeting church attendance across the United States in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/john-mac-arthur" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest episode</a> of the Sunday Special. 
The two discussed the decline of religiosity in America and how many churches have twisted the Bible to be more in line with woke culture. They also discussed how modern secularists have embraced moral relativity and rejected any claim of a higher power. 
During the conversation, Shapiro asked MacArthur, the pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, how people looking for a biblical truth “determine what is a Bible believing church that&#8217;s worth their time versus a church that maybe has a Pride progress flag hanging off the door and claims to be speaking in the name of the Gospels.”
“A church that is faithful to scripture, a synagogue that is faithful to scripture, bears moral authority,” MacArthur said. “I mean, it exists to say, ‘this is what the Lord has said. This is what God requires.’ This is divine mandate. This is the morality that leads to blessing and disobedience. And disregard for this morality leads to cursing.”
MacArthur added that many in America wanted to live by their own standards of morality and not have any authority over them. 
“The bottom line is, if you&#8217;re living in the culture that we&#8217;re living in, where you want absolute freedom to do anything you choose to do, to establish your own set of rules, your own truth, your own standards of morality, the last thing you want is to step into some place that&#8217;s going to call into question everything you&#8217;re choosing to do in your life and is going to exercise authority over you,” he said. 
The two also discussed the person of Jesus Christ, who many Americans have twisted into a generic hippy-type figure, Shapiro noted. He said that modern secularists tried to turn Jesus into a “bizarre pacifist with nothing of morality to say.”
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The Daily Wire host noted that “the perversion of Jesus into a sort of namby-pamby, bizarrely androgynous creation from Haight-Ashbury is one of the stranger things that&#8217;s happened over the course of the last 50 or 60 years in American life.”
MacArthur agreed that the moral character of Jesus was transcendent and pointed out how much of Jesus’s ministry was about judgment. 
“You either come to God for forgiveness and salvation, or you&#8217;re going to come under divine judgment. That&#8217;s the real Jesus,” he said. 
Shapiro also asked MacArthur how he might convince a skeptic of Christianity to start attending church. MacArthur replied by saying he would recommend that people read the Bible. 
“Read the Bible. Just read the Bible. It has the ring of truth. It defends itself,” he said. “It&#8217;s like a lion. You don&#8217;t defend it. You don&#8217;t defend the lion. You open the cage and let it out. It&#8217;ll be okay. And the scripture is like that. But it&#8217;s like that even morally, there&#8217;s something in the heart of people that resonates with biblical morality.”
The two also discussed the distinction between faith and acts. 
Shapiro said that in Judaism you can bring people to faith “through acting in the way that the Bible suggests, that you set up a track record of success by acting in moral ways and because you&#8217;re now living in the realm of godly morality, you&#8217;re living what God wants you to live.”
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MacArthur agreed, noting that often people need to be able to see the change in another’s life to come to faith. 
“I think, how can I convince somebody to be a Christian if they can&#8217;t see the transformation? I mean, what am I trying to do if I can&#8217;t say to somebody, you need to be obedient to the law of God, you need to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. You need to be obedient to God&#8217;s will and God will bless you,” the pastor said. 
The two also discussed the spread of wokeness, building church community, and religion’s role in politics. Watch the full interview here: 
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“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-chosen-creator-talks-about-season-4s-extreme-pain-and-sadness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Chosen</a>” made a huge announcement that fans have been eagerly waiting months to hear, and that is that Season 4 will be available to stream exclusively on “The Chosen” app for free starting in June.
In a press release on Wednesday, “The Chosen” said the first episode of <a href="https://www.thechosen.tv/en-us/statement?utm_source=vanity&amp;utm_medium=vanity&amp;utm_campaign=season4news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Season 4</a> will be available for streaming beginning on Sunday, June 2, with the second one coming out the following Thursday, June 6.
The entire season will be released over four weeks, with an episode dropping twice a week rather than once a week as it has been previously, with one episode dropping on a Sunday and the other on a Thursday, the press release noted.
“The wait is finally over,” Dallas Jenkins, creator, producer, director and writer of the hit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-chosen-actress-once-skeptical-about-god-says-role-has-been-life-changing">series</a> &#8212; which explores the life of Jesus through those who were closest to him &#8212; said in the release.
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— The Chosen (@thechosentv) <a href="https://twitter.com/thechosentv/status/1795895680537604330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
“The response from those who&#8217;ve seen Season 4 in theaters was that this is our best season, so I can&#8217;t wait to deliver these episodes free and easy to the world,” he added.
“We wanted to offer fans a chance to see it on the big screen together in theaters,” Jenkins continued. “But I&#8217;ve maintained the show will always ultimately be available free and easy, and we&#8217;re now ready for our livestreams, which are going to be bonkers this year.”
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The first three seasons of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-chosen">The Chosen</a>” were all available for fans to watch on the show’s <a href="https://new.thechosen.tv/">app</a> and stream for free with a message about paying it forward. Season 4 was the first time they opted to release it first exclusively in theaters. Speaking recently with The Daily Wire, Jenkins said doing so helped with funding the show so that they can provide it for free to stream.
“Releasing it in theaters first not only allowed us to give the fans a great experience, and allowed those who were willing to pay for it to to see it on the big screen and to see it in community, which is important to a lot of people, see it in the way that we really intended it,” the creator said.
“But it was also able to give us a little bit of a financial boost and we have to come up with creative ways to do that when we have a show that’s ultimately free and the people don’t have to pay for it if they don’t choose to,” he added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jonathan-roumie-says-hes-on-mission-from-god-with-his-portrayal-of-jesus-in-the-chosen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Roumie Says He’s On ‘Mission’ From God With His Portrayal Of Jesus In ‘The Chosen’</a>

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‘The Wait Is Finally Over’: ‘The Chosen’ Announces Huge News About Season 4

'The Wait Is Finally Over': 'The Chosen' Announces Huge News About Season 4

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The Chosen

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/candace-cameron-bure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Candace Cameron Bure</a> celebrated the box office success of her movie “Unsung Hero,” noting that it took over the 3rd place spot in America on Mothers&#8217; Day.
In a post on Monday on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C66cjpBrjwk/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D">Instagram</a>, the 48-year-old actress shared a shot of the cast of the film from Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company — which celebrates faith and sends the message “family is not in the way; they are the way,” as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/family-is-not-in-the-way-they-are-the-way-unsung-hero-movie-tells-true-story-of-for-king-country-band">reported</a>.
The movie, which tells the true story about the family behind the hugely successful Christian band, for King + Country, got a boost on Mothers&#8217; Day earning an estimated $2.25M this weekend (from 2,272 locations), bringing the new total for domestic gross to $16.79 million, according to <a href="https://twitter.com/BORReport/status/1789670794882318505">Box Office Report</a>s.
From the studio responsible for “Jesus Revolution,” &#8220;Unsung Hero” found big box office success after earning nearly $8 million its opening weekend when it hit theaters nationwide on April 26, coming in 2nd place, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/zendaya-box-office-challengers-opening-1235885369/">Hollywood Reporter</a> noted. Its second weekend out, the movie struggled to remain in the top five spot — before rebounding over the Mothers&#8217; Day weekend.
A description of the film from <a href="https://unsunghero.movie/">Lionsgate</a> tells the story of the Smallbone family, David and Helen, who packed up everything they owned and moved their entire family from Australia to Nashville in the ’90s in hopes of a better future after “David’s successful music company collapsed.”
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“With nothing more than their six children, their suitcases, and their love of music, David (for KING + COUNTRY’s Joel Smallbone) and his pregnant wife Helen (Daisy Betts) set out to rebuild their lives from the ground up,” the description added. “Based on a remarkable true story, a mom’s faith stands against all odds; and inspires her husband and children to hold onto theirs.”
Produced by brothers Luke and Joel Smallbone with Joshua Walsh and Justin Tolley, the cast includes Joel Smallbone — who plays his father in the film, Bure, Kirrilee Berger, Jonathan Jackson, Lucas Black, and Terry O’Quinn.
Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1476-you-need-an-ivy-league-education-to-be-this-ignorant-member-exclusive">Michael Knowles</a> spoke to for King + Country’s brothers Joel and Luke about the movie and the message about family they hope moviegoers come away with after watching their film.
“Mom had found her dream,” Joel said. “She always wanted to be a mom, and so she was living out her dream. And she really lifted up dad, and went literally and figuratively to the ends of the earth for him in search of his dream, which was to find himself in music, specifically Christian music.”
“And out of that unexpectedly, there’s another phrase in the film that says, your family is not in the way they are,” he added. “But I have to note that this is so much more than just our family. The real unsung heroes of this film are moms. The real unsung hero is family, and we’re just excited to make family and moms potentially the number one conversation in the United States coming into this weekend in the theaters.”

Unsung Hero

Candace Cameron Bure Celebrates ’Unsung Hero’ Box Office Success

From the studio responsible for “Jesus Revolution,” “Unsung Hero” found big box office success after earning nearly $8 million its opening weekend.
The movie, which tells the true story about the family behind the hugely successful Christian band, for King + Country, hit theaters nationwide Friday April 26th and came in way ahead of expectations, scoring second place at the domestic box office, after it opened close to $7.8 million, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/zendaya-box-office-challengers-opening-1235885369/">Hollywood Reporter</a> Reported.
The film from Lionsgate and Kingdom Story Company celebrates faith and sends the message “family is not in the way; they are the way,” as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/family-is-not-in-the-way-they-are-the-way-unsung-hero-movie-tells-true-story-of-for-king-country-band">reported</a>.
“We are thrilled that families in America see themselves in ‘UNSUNG HERO,’” Kevin Downes, Co-Founder and CEO, Kingdom Story Company told The Daily Wire on Monday. “It&#8217;s a beautiful story about resiliency and reliance on faith, which we know is a strong message that our country needs right now.”
“The Smallbone family put their story on screen to inspire other families, and that&#8217;s just what we&#8217;re seeing,” he added. “We are encouraging the audience to lean into the power of family, and to lean into sharing this film with their moms.”
“At its core, this film celebrates moms and what they do for their families,” Downes continued. “We are hearing from moms that they feel ‘seen’ in this movie in a way they haven&#8217;t seen themselves on screen before.  As we look towards Mother&#8217;s Day, we will be encouraging our audience to take the mom in their lives to experience the film in theaters.”
A description of the film from <a href="https://unsunghero.movie/">Lionsgate</a> tells the story of the Smallbone family, David and Helen, who packed up everything they owned and moved their entire family from Australia to Nashville in the ’90s in hopes of a better future after “David’s successful music company collapsed.”
“With nothing more than their six children, their suitcases, and their love of music, David (for KING + COUNTRY’s Joel Smallbone) and his pregnant wife Helen (Daisy Betts) set out to rebuild their lives from the ground up,” the description added. “Based on a remarkable true story, a mom’s faith stands against all odds; and inspires her husband and children to hold onto theirs.”
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Unsung Hero! What a great movie. It is a must see for everyone. The power of God is something that can’t really be measured. It starts at home with your families and through God all things are possible! <a href="https://t.co/RCIsemLR1H">pic.twitter.com/RCIsemLR1H</a>
— Jared Scott (@JaredScott723) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaredScott723/status/1784768764371673169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
Produced by brothers Luke and Joel Smallbone with Joshua Walsh and Justin Tolley, the cast includes Joel Smallbone — who plays his father in the film, Candace Cameron Bure, Kirrilee Berger, Jonathan Jackson, Lucas Black, and Terry O’Quinn.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/family-is-not-in-the-way-they-are-the-way-unsung-hero-movie-tells-true-story-of-for-king-country-band" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Family Is Not In The Way; They Are The Way&#8217;: &#8216;Unsung Hero&#8217; Movie Tells True Story Of For King + Country Band</a>

‘Unsung Hero’ Celebrates Big Box Office Success With Faith-Based Film

'Unsung Hero' Celebrates Big Box Office Success With Faith-Based Film

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