A church can lose its public witness in more than one way. It can be burned by mobs, closed by officials, absorbed into a state-approved religious structure, softened by interfaith pluralism, or quietly trained to speak only in language acceptable t...

A strange religious moment is unfolding before us. Secularization has not produced a purely materialist world. Many people have left church, distrusted doctrine, rejected biblical authority, or grown weary of institutional religion, yet they have no...

Entertainment has a legitimate place in human life. Rest, music, celebration, travel, sport, fellowship, and recreation can refresh the body and strengthen relationships. The problem begins when entertainment ceases to be a servant and becomes the o...

The July encampment season at Bohemian Grove is again a timely occasion for Christian discernment. The point is not to baptize every rumor about hidden elites as truth, nor to dismiss all concern about private elite networks as paranoia. Scripture c...

The Strait of Hormuz is physically narrow, but spiritually and geopolitically it has become a revealing place. A few miles of water between Iran and Oman can shake markets, threaten shipping, harden alliances, inflame public anger, and remind the na...

The seven days of creation recorded in Genesis describe real acts by which God ordered the heavens, the earth, and life within them. Yet the remarkable correspondence between those seven days and the principal events of biblical history suggests tha...

On July 10, 2026, registration closes for Interfaith America’s 2026 Interfaith Leadership Summit, scheduled for August 7-9 in Chicago. The event describes itself as “the nation’s largest gathering of college students and educators committed to Ameri...

The parable of the Good Samaritan is one of Jesus’ most familiar teachings. An expert in the law asked Him what he must do to inherit eternal life and then attempted to justify himself by asking, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus answered with the acc...

The phrase “Project Blue Beam” is often used to describe an alleged plan to stage false supernatural or extraterrestrial events through advanced technology, with the aim of frightening humanity into accepting a centralized world order and a counterf...

On July 7-15, 2026, the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development is meeting in New York to review the 2030 Agenda under the theme of "transformative, equitable, innovative and coordinated actions" for the Sustainable Deve...

France has again brought the assisted-dying question to the center of European public life. On June 30, 2026, the French National Assembly adopted, in a new reading, a proposal concerning a legal right to aid in dying (Assemblée nationale, 2026). In...

On July 6, 2026, Hamas announced that it was prepared to hand over civil governing authority in Gaza to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, a U.S.-backed Palestinian technocratic body connected to the wider Board of Peace framewor...

On July 6, 2026, the most timely issue before the watchful church is not only whether Western-led global governance is weakening. It is whether a different form of global order is being built with moral language that sounds humane, inclusive, develo...

The modern persecution of Christians does not always arrive with a sword in its hand. Sometimes it arrives as a regulation, a registration form, a social-media storm, a public-order justification, a nationalist slogan, a security concern, a family t...

The 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea has become more than a historical commemoration. It has become a living theological test. Across 2025 and into 2026, churches, ecumenical institutions, Roman Catholic and Orthodox leaders, and global C...