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◆ Concept Working demo — how the Advocate Weekly could live on champions-network.com, plus a click-through of the approval workflow. Front-end simulation · nothing is published · safe to forward
For Mark, Carly, Shelly & Legal

Give the Advocate Weekly a home of its own.

Right now every story in the email sends readers straight off to someone else’s site. This demo shows the same digest making a stop on our own property first — where readers meet our podcasts, lessons and chapters on the way — and a one-click approval flow that keeps Mark in charge of every word.

Today The email gives traffic away

Each story links straight out to ADF, Becket, BYU Law Center or a news site. It informs people — but:

1 The reader’s path
Thin Email

One short paragraph + one image. “Read the rest on the site.”

The Site (the stop)

Fuller story + “Related on our properties” + a big button to the source.

The Source

They still reach ADF / Becket / the news site — exactly as today.

2 The approval workflow — try it
Advocate Weekly  /  build a story
1

Paste the source

staff drops in a clipping & link
2

Choose how much we add

this decides whether legal review is needed
3

Generate the draft

Reading the source & drafting in the house voice…
AI draft · preview No doctrinal review required
Educational Freedom

Headline

Reviewer view

One look, one click — nothing else changes — and it’s live.

Live on champions-network.com

The story page is published and the thin email is queued. See the page a reader lands on ↓

3 What the reader lands on
Advocate Weekly · Educational Freedom
Educational Freedom

Illinois Parent Sues School Over Secret Transition

Curated June 10, 2026 · Source: The LION · Advocate Weekly Vol. 2 No. 21
An empty American public high school hallway with lockers and a U.S. flag in morning light

St. Louis, Mo — “An Illinois school district is facing a federal class-action lawsuit over claims it secretly transitioned a minor student’s gender identity at school. The mother of a high school student enrolled in Community Unit School District 300 filed the suit in federal court against the district and the superintendent.”

“The mother says school employees began using an alternate name and pronouns for her child in 2022 without informing her. The suit alleges the child’s mental health plummeted during this time…”

Read the full story at The LION Excerpt shown in quotation marks · full article lives at the source
Let Us Pray…
  • …for this mother and her child, and other parents and children caught in this.
  • …for school administrators who feel it is their duty to usurp parental authority.
  • …for the Church to teach and preach on God’s provision for parental authority.
An initiative of the Lutheran Center for Religious Liberty · Washington, D.C.
Subscribe to the Advocate Weekly · champions-network.com
4 The thin email that points here
LCRL · Champions for Religious Liberty

The Advocate Weekly

Vol. 2 · No. 21 — Inform · Pray · Advocate
Educational Freedom

Illinois Parent Sues School Over Secret Transition

A mother says her child was socially transitioned at school for two years — without her knowledge. We’ve gathered the story and a prayer alongside it.

Read & pray on our site
2–4 stories each week · one tap each lands on champions-network.com

Why shorter: the email becomes a teaser, so the click comes to us — but we’ll confirm with Carly’s MailChimp read-rate data before trimming, so scanners don’t lose the gist.

Open questions for the table

Does hosting an excerpt on our site (vs. only linking from email) change the copyright picture?
“Curate only” mode keeps it to a short quotation + attribution + a button to the source — the same posture as today, just on a page instead of in an email. Still worth a quick check. Mark + Legal
What’s the current click-through & read-rate, so we know if a thinner email loses scanners?
Pull the numbers from MailChimp before we commit to trimming the email. Carly
Which stories warrant “AI-enhance” (and Mark’s review) vs. plain “curate only”?
Default everything to curate-only (no review); reserve enhance for the one or two stories a week worth our own framing. Mark + Shelly

Front-end concept for the Champions Advocate Weekly · built for the Friday discussion & legal review · Champions Network · Orbis Design