Lansing, MI — October 11, 2025 This past weekend, the Freedom Embassy in Lansing hosted Go Local: School Board Training , a daylong event equipping current and aspiring school board members to lead their districts with truth, courage, and a firm grounding in constitutional governance. The training was sponsored by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy , the Leadership Institute , and SLG. The program offered practical, faith-informed instruction on issues central to good gove

As violence and persecution against Christians and other believers intensify across the globe, America’s moral clarity and courage are being tested once again. In Nigeria, religious freedom is under siege. Villages are burned, pastors kidnapped, families massacred, all while the Nigerian government looks away. It is time, indeed, it is past time, for the United States to act. The President must immediately redesignate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern under the Inter

In a free and just society, the liberty of conscience, to believe, worship, and live out one’s faith, stands as a pillar of human dignity. Its suppression is among the gravest violations of human rights, for it denies the individual’s inherent worth and moral agency before the Creator. Today, that fundamental freedom faces renewed assault in the People’s Republic of China. The Case of Pastor Jin Mingri The world’s attention is once again drawn to China’s ongoing persecution o