The Democratic base is very dialed into abortion rights as an issue more broadly.

Same-sex marriage rights.

The state's last abortion provider has now apologized to his congregation.

They believe the Bible has application for every part of our lives as a Southern Baptist.

He's on camera saying the problem is also not just the shift of the position in the next to the

midst of all of today's noise and confusion, we need a voice that cuts through the chaos to bring wisdom and clarity.

Welcome to The Roy's Report with Julie Roy's, an hour-long show exploring critical issues related to faith and culture from a uniquely Christian perspective.

Now, here's your host, Julie Roy's.

After experiencing hurt and disappointment in the church, how can you move on? Welcome to the

Roy's report, brought to you in part by Judson University. I'm Julie Roy's. And two weeks ago,

hundreds of people gathered at Judson University to wrestle with that question.

They came for a unique event called Restore Chicago, a one-day conference aimed at restoring faith in God in the Church.

And today you're going to hear highlights from that conference by Nancy Beach, a former teaching pastor at Willow Creek,

Wade Mullen, an expert in spiritual abuse, Lena Abu Jomra, founder of Living with Power

Ministries and also myself.

Together with Judson, I put together restore Chicago because I've witnessed firsthand the pain

and the devastation left by two major church scandals in the Chicago area.

One involved Bill Heibel's founding pastor of Willow Creek Community Church,

which remains one of the largest churches in America. The other involved James McDonald

and Harvest Bible Chapel, another very large multi-site megachurch. So thousands of people in the

Chicago area have witnessed the men who were their spiritual mentors fall in pretty spectacular

fashion, and they're

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