DC Talk, the chart-topping group that gave Christian contemporary music a new sound in the 80s and 90s, is finally getting back together for a tour.

Band member Michael Tait told KTIS-98.5 last week that the band will begin touring again in 2020. 

“Next year dc Talk will be doing a land cruise,” Tait said, drawing a distinction between it and the group’s performances on the Jesus Freak Cruise at sea. “We’ll be doing tour dates in the states, not announced yet, but it will be very few, but we’ll do them each year – [20]20, 21, and probably 22. 

“We’ll be around here somewhere eventually,” Tait said, referencing St. Paul, Minn., the home of KTIS. 

“I might be the first guy of the band to announce it. Toby [Mac] and Kevin [Max] haven’t, but it’s official we’ll be doing some dates.”

It would be the band’s first tour since the Supernatural Experience Tour of 1999. 

With its combination of rock and hip hop, DC Talk was one of the most popular Christian groups of the 1980s and 90s, winning four Grammys and 16 Dove Awards. 

Tait, Toby McKeehan and Kevin Max Smith formed the group at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., in the late 1980s. 

The band released five studio albums: DC Talk (1989), Nu Thang (1990), Free at Last (1992), Jesus Freak (1995) and Supernatural (1998) before launching solo careers. Tait eventually…

A restaurant that has a corporate mission to “glorify God” is officially the third-largest restaurant in the United States.

Chick-fil-A climbed from No. 7 to No. 3 in the latest rankings by the Nation’s Restaurant News (NRN) analysis after it had $10.46 billion in total sales in 2018, trailing only behind No. 1 McDonald’s ($38.52 billion) and No. 2 Starbucks ($20.49 billion). Chick-fil-A passed Subway to take the third spot. 

NRN released the chart Monday.  

It was the fifth straight year for Chick-fil-A to post a double-digit sales gain, NRN reported. Chick-fil-A grew by 16.7 percent in 2018. 

“Despite being closed on Sundays, Chick-fil-A’s Estimated Sales Per Unit hit $4.6 million, up 9.6% from $4.2 million in the Preceding Year,” NRN said.

The company was founded by Truett Cathy, a Christian businessman who incorporated his faith into the company’s practices. Cathy closed the restaurant on Sundays.

“Having worked seven days a week in restaurants open 24 hours, Truett saw the importance of closing on Sundays so that he and his employees could set aside one day to rest and worship if they choose – a practice we uphold today,” the company’s website says. 

The company’s official corporate purpose is “to glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us and to have a positive influence on…

God told Alabama college student Rodney Smith to give back to the community, so he did – all across the country.

“One day, I saw an elderly gentleman trying to mow his lawn and he was struggling,” Smith said. “He came to me that I should do something about it. And that’s when it came to me to cut the lawns for the elderly, disabled, and single-parent mothers.”

In 2015, Smith started a mowing service called Raising Men Lawn Care Service. He hoped to mow lawns in all 50 states for those who might not be able to, including veterans, single moms, the elderly and the disabled.

Using his own car to get around the country, Smith knew he would have to fly to Alaska and Hawaii in order to accomplish his goal. Thankfully, Delta came to the rescue. According to WCNC, Delta offered to fly Smith to both states free of charge.

“Glad to have you aboard!” Delta tweeted once Smith was on the plane. “A one-of-a-kind person like yourself deserves the first-class treatment. We’re honored to help you complete the 50-state journey and thank you for recognizing our veterans in this incredible way.”

Glad to have you aboard! A one-of-a-kind person like yourself deserves the first class treatment. We’re honored to help you complete the 50-state journey and thank you for recognizing our veterans in this incredible way.

— Delta…

A legal group representing three female Connecticut high school athletes filed a Title IX complaint with the U.S. Department of Education Tuesday, asserting that the state’s governing body is violating federal law by allowing biological boys to compete and win in girls-only events.

“This discrimination must end,” the complaint reads. It was filed with the department’s Office of Civil Rights by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).

It could have national implications.

Two biological boys named Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood, who identify as girls, have won 15 Connecticut girls’ state championship titles, Christian Headlines previously reported.

Neither athlete takes testosterone-suppressing hormones as required on the NCAA and international levels. Their victories came after the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) issued a rule allowing athletes to compete in any gender-specific sport that matches their identity.

The complaint asks the Office of Civil Rights to issue a declaration finding that Title IX “neither permits nor requires CIAC’s Policy that allows biological males to compete in high school women’s athletic events.” It further asks the office to issue an order requiring CIAC to revise its rules. The complaint also asks the office to require CIAC to wipe the biological boys’ wins from the books.

ADF is representing…