Life & Family
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Revival In Secular Sweden: When Christianity Becomes The New Rebellion
Young men in bathing trunks emerge from a Swedish lake and begin cheering, embracing, and jumping with joy. They have just been baptized–not in America’s Bible Belt or somewhere in the developing world, but in one of the most secular nations on earth. For decades,…
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A Generation Is Learning About 9/11 Without Learning Why It Happened
Twenty-five years ago, Americans watched in horror as hijacked passenger jets struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, while courageous passengers fought back aboard United Flight 93. Nearly 3,000 innocent people were murdered in a single morning. America understood immediately that this was not…
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The Queer Beatitudes: When Pride Replaces Repentance
A disturbing pattern is spreading through LGBTQ-affirming churches. In sermons, Pride liturgies and online worship clips, the familiar opening words of Jesus’ Beatitudes–“Blessed are”–are being borrowed and filled with an entirely different message. These are not simply prayers asking God to comfort people who have…
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There Is No Off Switch: How Surveillance Followed Us Home
The television is off. The screen is dark. The family has stopped watching. But what if the television has not stopped watching them? A major investigation into LG smart televisions has uncovered an extraordinary amount of data collection occurring through a device millions of families…
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When The Church Becomes Entertainment, Who Preaches Repentance?
For nearly three centuries, worshippers have entered St Paul’s Cathedral to pray beneath its towering dome, hear Scripture proclaimed, and remember that there are things in this world greater than themselves. Now one of Britain’s most sacred Christian landmarks has found a new partner: a…
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Christian Physicians Are Being Screened Out By The Medical Establishment
Spanning throughout the U.S. and within the midst of the country’s medical education and residency programs, a silent ideological cleansing is occurring. For centuries, the Hippocratic Oath has existed as medicine’s north star of morality, an unwavering promise to preserve human life. Today, that honored…
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Israelis Worry Next October 7 Could Come From Judea & Samaria
Israel was promised a peace partner. Now its military is being told to prepare for the possibility of fighting that partner’s armed forces in an all-out war. More than three decades after Oslo, that development deserves far more attention than another diplomatic statement about keeping…
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The Church Of Confusion: When Affirmation Replaces Biblical Truth
The Episcopal Church has apparently reached another historic milestone, although perhaps not one Christians should be celebrating. All Saints’ Cathedral in Milwaukee recently installed the Very Rev. Micah Cronin as its new dean, believed to be the first transgender-identifying dean in the history of the…
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The Women Nobody Wants To Talk About In The Transgender Debate
For years, one of the most visible consequences of transgender policies has played out in women’s sports. Female athletes have watched biological males enter their competitions, stand on podiums, occupy roster spots and, in some cases, enter spaces once reserved exclusively for women. Whatever one’s…
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The Progressive Paradox: Fleeing Spain For Gaza
Sometimes a story seems almost designed to raise questions about how people form their political and cultural beliefs. A gay couple in Spain recently attracted attention after saying that if the conservative Vox party came to power, they would leave Spain and seek asylum in…
