World News
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Britain’s Quiet Revival? Young Men Are Defying The Secular Trend
Britain has spent decades becoming one of the West’s great laboratories of secularization. Church attendance declined. Christian identification fell. Historic churches struggled to fill their pews. Younger generations were widely assumed to be moving steadily away from organized religion altogether. But something increasingly difficult to…
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Spotlight Grows On Sharia Law’s Abuse Of Women
Masih Alinejad grew up in a country where she was taught to shout “Death to America!” Decades later, she is a citizen of the republic she was taught to hate that she credits for saving her life from her homeland. “I love America, and I…
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The Debt Bomb Meets The Socialist Generation
Something strange is happening in America. The federal government is running deficits normally associated with wars or severe recessions. Interest on the national debt has crossed the trillion-dollar mark. Washington continues borrowing enormous sums simply to maintain existing commitments. And according to the Congressional Budget…
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The Winter Fuel Crisis Is Building – And America Won’t Be Immune
Winter hasn’t arrived yet, but the warning signs are already flashing. Diesel has climbed above $6 a gallon in the United States. Heating-oil customers are being warned to prepare for dramatically higher bills. Fuel shortages and rationing are appearing overseas. Factories are being disrupted. Transportation…
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The Kill Switch Beneath The Ocean
The opening strike of the next major war may not be a missile exploding over a city. It could happen silently, thousands of feet beneath the ocean, as specialized submarines sever the fiber-optic cables carrying the modern world’s most important communications. No fireball would appear…
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The Methodist Shaking: One Church Is Shrinking While Another Is Growing
For years, traditional Methodists were warned that holding firmly to biblical teaching would leave them isolated, irrelevant and unable to survive in a changing culture. If the church wanted a future, they were told, it would have to become more inclusive, more flexible and less…
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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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When The Prison Gang Becomes A Caliphate
“Convert or get hurt.” Three words. One terrifying choice. For a vulnerable man entering the wrong British prison wing, those may be among the first words he hears. The message is not an invitation to examine a faith. It is an ultimatum from men who…
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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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The Blackout Weapon: Could China Or Russia Turn Off America?
America’s enemies do not necessarily have to destroy our cities to cripple the country. They may only need to make those cities stop functioning. That uncomfortable reality is coming into focus as Iranian-linked hackers threaten attacks against America’s energy, water and telecommunications infrastructure, while lawmakers…
