The Bible and Socialism

By Jerry Newcombe, D. Min.

Last week, an avowed socialist—Communist, really—won the mayoral seat of America’s number one city, NYC, the home of Wall Street and the largest Jewish population in the world outside Israel. Zohran Mamdani promised a lot of free stuff—although his supporters had to pay for their own drinks at his victory celebration.

With the incredibly terrible track record of Communism, how could a free people vote in socialism? Easy. Through ignorance of history, promoted in our schools, our media, our songs, our culture, and sometimes even through the pulpit, primarily through its silence on such things as how socialism contradicts basic Biblical teaching.

But to the ignorant, it would appear the Bible promotes socialism.

In his article “Gov. Newsom Uses Bible to Slam Vance,” Dr. Bill Donohue, the president of the Catholic League, writes, “On November 9, California Governor Gavin Newsom called out Vice President JD Vance for allowing the poor to go hungry.”

Donohue quotes Newsom: “I mean, Old Testament, New Testament…What’s the fundamental thing that connects every—I mean, from John to Matthew to Proverbs? It’s this notion of hunger, feeding the poor, the sick, the tired…it’s not an option, it’s central to advancing God’s will.”

Certainly, the Bible does command us to help the poor. But nowhere does God say that the government is to help the poor. In fact, the Bible says we shall not steal nor covet our neighbors’ goods. Those two prohibitions comprise 20% of the Ten Commandments.

Although capitalism and free enterprise have proven to lift the quality of life for many in our country and all over the world, lately, many young Americans clamor for socialism over capitalism. In some cases, they basically define socialism as simply sharing.

But critics note that socialism involves the force of the government. It isn’t sharing that is practiced. Instead, it is forcibly confiscating (stealing) property from one citizen to give to another—while charging a hefty administrative fee in the process.

Furthermore, socialism undermines productivity and actually hurts the recipients who are supposedly the objects of charity.

Take the welfare state as an example. This has led to the breakdown of the urban family. They said in effect, “Dad, if you get out of the house, then we’ll give mom more money.” But fatherlessness contributes significantly to poverty, as well as a number of other maladies. Why do young men join gangs? They’re looking for surrogate fathers.

Meanwhile, the church is often at the forefront of truly helping the poor on a voluntary basis.

The Bible also says the family is ultimately responsible for the care of the needy and the poor. The Apostle Paul writes, “But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” Now certainly, Paul’s not talking about those who cannot provide for their family, but those who refuse to do so.

Last year, I had the privilege to interview Charlie Kirk about his book against Wokeism for a radio segment. I mentioned to him that after reading major portions of his book, Right Wing Revolution, I found it amazing that people in modern times still turn to Karl Marx, the father of Communism, for inspiration and marching orders. Here’s a portion of our dialogue.

Jerry: “Why should Karl Marx have the final say in this world? Karl Marx couldn’t even reconcile his own bank account. Karl Marx forced his family into utter poverty. What a loser. And yet this guy’s ideas have poisoned the minds of millions and led to the deaths of tens of millions. Amazing.”

Charlie: “Yeah, and Marx was engaged in the demonic, and Marxism is from the pit of hell. Marxism seeks to destroy people’s connection to God, people’s connection to the family, and people’s ability to own property. Three things that are biblically based and mandated. And so Karl Marx shouldn’t have the final say, and that’s why believers need to identify what Marxism is, where it comes from, and our need to rise up against it….But right now, it seems that the church largely is indifferent towards the rise of Marxism in the West.”

In contrast, NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani sees big government as the solution. He said, “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.” Instead, I agree with President Reagan, who viewed government as often to be the problem, not the solution, to problems. Our 40th president said the scariest words to ever hear are, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

Let’s be blunt, socialism is simply a means by which many politicians are basically trying to buy votes—and they’re charging us for the bill.

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Blood Labels: A Political Right That Avoids The Oldest Of Infamies

By Middle East Media Research Institute

MEMRI Daily Brief No. 863

That liberal democracy seems to be looking increasingly threadbare is obvious. The elements of the old dispensation — individualism, free markets, limited government — all seem to be under assault, often for very good reasons. What Francis Fukuyama popularized in 1989 as the endpoint of political evolution and “the final form of human government” does not look that way right now.[1] Globalization, the offspring of the free markets/free trade portion of liberal democracy, seems as much of a threat to as a product of the “liberal-democratic West.”[2]

The world, including the West, is transitioning. What is not quite clear is exactly what it is transitioning into. In a recent piece I wrote about Europe, I described the potential future of that continent as a struggle between Fanonists and Maurrassians.[3] Fanon is, of course, Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), the highly influential “anti-colonial” political radical.[4] Maurras was Charles Maurras (1868-1952) the highly influential reactionary nationalist.[5]

Both were Francophone, both gifted writers, one died too young, the other lived too long. Both godfathers of types of virulent antisemitism, of the left and of the right, that flourish to this day. Fanon is a symbol of a type of revolutionary Third Worldism that seems to be burgeoning within the West. Maurras is kind of shorthand for a type of full-throated populist nationalism also gaining force in the West.[6]

Recently the United States has seen controversy on the political right, much talked about online, involving journalist Tucker Carlson, his platforming of the flagrant antisemite and Nazi Nick Fuentes, and the reaction of the Heritage Foundation, a leading American conservative institution. Both Carlson, who has also platformed leftists and even a lobbyist for the Venezuelan regime, and Fuentes, a fringe figure who supported Kamala Harris in 2024, seem to be as much or more agents provocateurs than men of the right. There is a flood now of “edgelords who take pride in transgression for its own sake.”[7]

Both, especially Fuentes, benefit from and channel the completely understandable anger of younger American generations at what seems a deeply unfair, rotten world created by their elders.[8] These younger generations, especially young men and particularly young white men, see all the established gatekeepers as hopelessly discredited, economies hollowed out, societies overwhelmed from within and without, institutions arrayed against them, and a grim future looming.[9] They are not wrong and there are clearly both right-wing and left-wing versions of this existential bitterness, as the recent election of a cosmopolitan leftist political messiah supported by pro-China, Qatar and Iran propagandists as mayor of New York City demonstrated.[10]

There seems little doubt that in the United States the political advantage will lie in whichever party or faction within one of the two parties will be able to better address the deep disquiet of rising generations at what seems like an unfair, broken economic and political reality. To talk about unfettered capitalism in a jobless, hopeless future will be a real challenge. In November 2024, the candidate that was best able to tap into this deep vein of dissatisfaction was Donald Trump. In 2026 and 2028, it might be the Democrats, particularly the Democratic Socialist part of the Democratic Party. In the long-run, who knows? But the crisis of downwardly mobile would-be elites is real.[11]

Supporters of Israel face the challenge of better making the case that U.S. support for Israel is not a heavy burden, that it makes good strategic sense on its own terms, that it can be and is consistent with an American First worldview and divorcing this support from the bitter legacy of what is now broadly seen as decades of imperial, near suicidal, American overreach. But much of the “new” antisemitism in the U.S. is also about a struggle for power within contending elites, both on the left and right, and actually has very little to do with what Israel or American Jews actually do or say. It is a merely an ugly means to a political end.

But one thing that struck me in the mainstreaming of this antisemitism on the American right is the contrast with the rise of right-wing movements in Europe that are actually philosemitic. All across Europe, the center and the left — the long-time custodians of power on the old continent — are horrified by what they call the “far-right” or the populist right.[12] They seek to demonize figures such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban as they did with “fascist” Giorgia Meloni in 2022. And yet from Orban to Spain’s Vox to Germany’s AfD to the Netherlands’ Geert Wilders, it is the so-called “far-right” parties that are consistently pro-Israel.[13] There certainly are antisemitic right-wingers in Europe but they are not electorally significant. In contrast to Maurras and even Jean-Marie LePen, the French right today is also philosemitic.[14] Most of the politically powerful parties in Europe that “dabble” in antisemitism are on the political left — Spain’s PSOE and its communist allies, France’s LFI, Germany’s Die Linke, the UK’s Jeremy Corbyn. Several of these parties rely heavily on the Muslim migrant vote, a vote which overwhelmingly favors the European left.

There are obvious reasons why the populist European right is usually philosemitic. Of course, they want to differentiate themselves from pro-Islamic leftist parties who kowtow to an often deeply antisemitic migrant population. They also see Israel as a sovereigntist, right-leaning nationalist state that is often targeted by the globalists. The same crowd that wants to overcome Israel wants to submerge and dominate Europe.[15] There is also an obvious, laudable attempt to differentiate the European “new” right from the rightwing European parties of the past which often tended to be antisemitic.

Regardless of the complex motivations, Europe shows that political parties of the nationalist right can exist and flourish without being trapped in one of the oldest and worst of all blood-libels, Jew hatred.

AUTHOR

Amb. Alberto M. Fernandez

Alberto M. Fernandez is Vice President of MEMRI.

SOURCES:

[1] Thenation.com/article/society/francis-fukuyama-liberalism-discontents, April 17, 2023.

[2] Theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/new-american-populism-needed-save-west/582202, February 7, 2019.

[3] Tomklingenstein.com/a-prophecy-confirmed-but-unfinished, April 7, 2025.

[4] Tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/jewish-foreskins-black-masks, March 24, 2024.

[5] Youtube.com/watch?v=xJ1wMFRUako&t=1s, December 5, 2021.

[6] Firstthings.com/the-revenge-of-maurras, November 1, 2019.

[7] Commonplace.org/p/oren-cass-fringe-facing-figures-will, November 9, 2025.

[8] Americanmind.org/salvo/carlson-and-fuentes-betray-young-men, November 5, 2025.

[9] Nbcnews.com/business/economy/young-men-struggling-slowing-job-market-college-degree-rcna224482, August 13, 2025.

[10] Commentary.org/seth-mandel/the-ccp-must-be-loving-every-minute-of-this, November 6, 2025.

[11] See MEMRI Daily Brief No. 833, The Coming Revolt Of Downwardly Mobile Would-Be Elites, August 12, 2025.

[12] Politico.eu/article/mapped-europe-far-right-government-power-politics-eu-italy-finalnd-hungary-parties-elections-polling, May 24, 2024.

[13] Theobjective.com/actualidad/2025-03-26/vox-partido-israel-parlamento-europeo/, March 26, 2025.

[14] Lapresse.ca/international/europe/2025-03-27/bardella-a-jerusalem/l-extreme-droite-francaise-affiche-son-soutien-a-israel.php, March 27, 2025.

[15] Jiss.org.il/en/dallal-winds-of-hate-from-the-west, July 15, 2025.

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Rooted Hope: Israel’s Place in God’s Unchanging Plan

By Majority Report

The Error of Replacement Theology. 

In This Article:

  • Why replacement theology (the idea that the Church has replaced Israel) contradicts Scripture.
  • How God’s covenants with Abraham and David prove Israel’s everlasting national identity.
  • The prophets’ promises of Israel’s physical and spiritual restoration in the land.
  • What the New Testament really says about Israel’s destiny — and how Jesus affirmed it.
  • How supersessionism fosters theological error and antisemitism.
  • Why the Church is grafted in, not replacing Israel.
  • The timeline from God’s ancient covenants to Israel’s modern rebirth in 1948 — proof of His faithfulness.

The assertion that the Bible redefines Israel solely as a “spiritual kingdom” of Christian believers, effectively erasing its identity as an earthly nation-state, stems from replacement theology or supersessionism.

This view posits that the Church has fully supplanted Israel as God’s chosen people, nullifying Old Testament promises of land, nationhood, and restoration.

However, Scripture consistently upholds Israel’s distinct ethnic and national identity alongside the Church, affirming unbreakable covenants and a future earthly restoration.

Far from replacement, the New Testament portrays Gentiles (the Church) as grafted into Israel’s spiritual blessings, not as a substitute (Romans 11:17-24). This claim misreads the Bible’s progressive revelation, conflating the Church’s current spiritual role with Israel’s enduring national destiny.

First, consider the Abrahamic covenant, foundational to Israel’s identity.

In Genesis 12:1-3 and 17:7-8, God promises Abraham that his descendants, through Isaac and Jacob (renamed Israel), will inherit the land of Canaan as an “everlasting possession.”

If Israel were merely a “spiritual kingdom” now absorbed into the Church, these land promises would be voided. God fulfills his promises and most certainly his solemn covenant.

Jeremiah 31:35-37 echoes this: God vows not to reject Israel “as long as the sun, moon, and stars endure,” linking the nation’s survival to creation’s order itself.

Replacement advocates spiritualize these away, but the Bible treats them as literal, awaiting millennial fulfillment (Ezekiel 37:25).

The Davidic covenant further cements Israel’s earthly kingship.

In 2 Samuel 7:12-16, God promises David an eternal throne through his lineage, ruling over Israel in Jerusalem. This is not transferable to the Church as a disembodied “spiritual kingdom.”

Psalm 89:3-4 and 34-37 reinforce: “I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered… Thy seed will I establish forever, and build up thy throne to all generations.”

Prophetic texts abound with Israel’s future as a restored nation-state.

Ezekiel 36:24-28 promises: “For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.” This regathering precedes spiritual renewal, but it is unmistakably physical: borders, cities, and temple (Ezekiel 37:21-28; 40-48).

Zechariah 14:16-21 envisions post-Messianic survivors from all nations worshiping in Jerusalem’s earthly temple during the Feast of Tabernacles, hardly a “spiritual kingdom” of scattered believers.

Amos 9:14-15 adds: “And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them.” These are not Church metaphors; the New Testament applies them to literal Israel in the land covenanted to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Fast forward to the New Testament, in the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38), Gabriel declares to Mary: “Thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever” (Luke 1:31-33, KJV).

This echoes 2 Samuel 7:12-16, where God promises David an eternal throne through his seed, establishing Christ as Israel’s everlasting King. Here, “the house of Jacob” means ethnic Israel, not a generic body of believers.

Supersessionism reduces prophecy to allegory and undermines Jesus Christ’s role as Israel’s Messiah-King.

In Acts 1:3–7, during the forty days preceding His Ascension, Jesus “spoke of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God” (v. 3).

When gathered with Him on the Mount of Olives, the apostles asked, “Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” (v. 6). His response, “It is not for you to know the times or the seasons” (v. 7), suggests that His teaching during that period had indeed addressed the restoration of Israel’s kingdom. Otherwise, their question would appear disconnected from His instruction.

If the apostles had wholly misconceived His meaning, Jesus, whose mission was to fulfill the Law and the Prophets rather than abolish them (Matthew 5:17), would surely have corrected their expectation or declared Israel’s covenants null.

Instead, His silence on that point affirms continuity with God’s promises, even as the timing of their fulfillment remained veiled.

Supersessionism fosters antisemitism by diminishing Israel’s God-given role, contradicting God’s heart for His “firstborn son” (Exodus 4:22). Abraham’s seed blesses all nations through Christ (Galatians 3:8,16), but ethnic Israel’s covenants endure distinctly (Romans 9:4-5).

The Church participates. It does not supplant or uproot.

To spiritualize Israel away ignores 1,917 years of revelation, from the Abrahamic covenant in 1921 BC (when the smoking furnace and burning lamp passed between the divided pieces (Genesis 15:17)) to the Virgin Birth of Jesus in 4 BC.

In his final week of 33 AD (Nisan 10-16), Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday (Nisan 10), aligning with Lamb Selection Day as the Passover prelude; Maundy Thursday evening (Nisan 14) marked Passover Preparation with the Last Supper as the Seder; Good Friday (Nisan 14) coincided with Passover Sacrifice Day, tying his crucifixion to the lamb’s slaughter; Holy Saturday (Nisan 15) observed the First Day of Unleavened Bread as a High Sabbath feast; and Easter Sunday (Nisan 16) fell on the Feast of First Fruits, symbolizing his resurrection offering.

This timeline extends another 1,878 years from those pivotal events to Israel’s reestablishment as a state in 1948 AD, after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD, underscoring God’s enduring faithfulness to His covenants.

AUTHOR

Alex Littlefield

Dr. Alexis “Alex” Littlefield, Chief of Staff for Christian Action Network, holds a PhD in International Politics and has coordinated high-profile events with congressional staff and administration officials, including assistant secretaries and agency heads. Subscribe to his personal Substack page.

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Christian Traditions Being Pinched Between a Hostile Growing Islamic Population and a Hostile Leftist Secularism

By Leo Hohmann

If you want to see the future of America, just look at Germany. 

The situation in Germany this Christmas should be a wake-up call to every American city that has a growing Muslim population along with Democrats in control of its governing apparatus.

Overath, a town of 27,000 people in North-Rhine Westphalia near Cologne, recently announced this year’s Christmas market has been canceled. The security cost required to protect visitors from potential terrorist attacks exceeds the budget of the event organizer. The local city government refuses to step in and cover any of the expenses, according to Rheinische Post. Christians, or at least those who still profess to be such, seem all too ready for capitulation.

The European Conservative writes:

“The Overath market will not be held as ever more frequent stabbings, car attacks and bomb threats during the holiday period have made security too costly.”

Thomas Kolbe, in an article at Zero Hedge, notes that since 2015, when Angela Merkel embarked on a full-blown open-borders policy, Germany and the other European countries have been slowly committing national suicide.

“The mass influx of young men from predominantly Islamic countries has deeply shattered the population’s sense of identity” and security, he writes.

Of course we didn’t need Kolbe to tell us that. I predicted it in articles as far back as 2014 and did a deep dive on the topic in my 2017 book, Stealth Invasion, which got banned by Amazon a few years later. I was also blackballed from the mainstream media after publishing that book. Nobody wanted to hear the truth about what mass Islamic immigration means for Western civilization.

Now that it’s becoming more obvious, to the point where even mainstream politicians like Chancellor Friedrich Merz have begun speaking out about the changing face of German cities, I don’t hear any apologies coming my way from Amazon or anyone else.

Even after deadly Islamist attacks, including when Berlin’s most important city square was hit in 2016 with 12 victims, followed by the Solingen festival stabbing in 2023 with three dead, or the bombing plot at the Magdeburg Christmas market last year, Germany still refuses to confront militant Islam pressing into Europe.

The list of Islamist attacks in Germany and Europe is a long one. Kolbe notes that when traditional festivals like Christmas markets are only possible behind heavy police presence and concrete barriers to stop jihadist vehicle attacks, it shows how intimidation of secular Western society has become wildly successful.

The cancelation of this year’s Christmas market in Overath is just the latest scene in a decades-long motion picture horror show. High security costs to protect visitors from terrorism make it impossible to open. The same is true in Dresden and many other German cities.

One would think they’ve reached a tipping point, where people rise up and say, no more! We’re taking our country back!

But there is no sign of courage or serious public resistance in sight.

In Overath, Islamists have managed, without any real resistance, to push aside a piece of tradition and communal life.

The pathetic renaming of Christmas markets into so-called Winter Markets represents a submission to Islam. A needless capitulation. Of course, this is where the interests of the Islamists and the secularists intersect, as the godless left has always hated Christmas and sought to replace it with a generic holiday like “winter break” or some nonsense like that. We’ve seen the same transformation in our public schools in America over the last 30 years, where Easter/Pascha and Christmas have been renamed so as not to offend the non-Christian faiths or those with no faith at all.

Germany is trapped in an identity crisis and a cultural meltdown. It’s like they no longer even care. Can the U.S. be far behind in this process of de-Christianization?

New York City, with the election last week of a Marxist Muslim mayor, is on the same trajectory. As are many other American cities, like Minneapolis, Dearborn. Hamtramck, Seattle and so many others that live largely under the boot of Islam on the one hand, and the cultural Marxists on the other.

At what point does the West wake up? And will it be too late? That’s a question to ponder as we head into the Christian holiday of Christmas. Don’t take it for granted, because it’s definitely under attack on more than one front.

I expect the pressures of this pincer movement to crowd out Christian traditions to intensify in the years to come. I would love to hear your suggestions on what the proper Christian response should be, so leave your ideas in the comments below. But please don’t tell me that all of today’s Christian holidays are mere recreations of old pagan celebrations, as I think that misses the point of what’s happening all together.

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Apple of God’s Eye: Linking Israel to America’s Future

By Majority Report

Why America’s destiny rises or falls with how we treat Israel.  

In the swirling debates of conservative circles, the phrase “America First” rings like a battle cry, a call to prioritize U.S. interests amid global entanglements.

Yet, recent turmoil at the Heritage Foundation exposes a dangerous rift.

On November 3, 2025, Mark Goldfeder, an Orthodox rabbi and key figure in Heritage’s antisemitism task force, resigned in protest after the organization’s president defended Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist notorious for antisemitic rants.

Fuentes framed Israel as a “distraction” from America First, echoing isolationist whispers that our alliance with the Jewish state drains resources and invites endless wars.

Heritage’s leader later apologized, but the damage lingers: a conservative powerhouse fracturing over whether standing with Israel aligns with putting America first.

For center-right Christians, this moment represents a spiritual crossroads as well as a political one.

The Bible speaks with clarity and finality. God’s covenant with Abraham in Genesis 12:3 (KJV) declares:

“And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

That promise defines the moral architecture of history. Israel, the covenant people through whom Christ entered the world, stands as the living witness of that word. Nations rise or fall according to how they respond to it.

International affairs unfold within a providential design rather than in the vacuum of power politics. Israel stands at the center of that design, the axis around which redemptive history turns.

Scripture gives repeated testimony.

Pharaoh’s Egypt, after enslaving the Hebrews, pursued them into the Red Sea, where “the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them” (Exodus 14:28, KJV). Assyria, which served as God’s instrument of chastisement, soon met its own destruction (Isaiah 10).

Empires that exalt themselves against Israel eventually collapse under the weight of their own arrogance.

History outside Scripture confirms this pattern.

When Spain expelled its Jewish population in 1492, its imperial brilliance dimmed soon after. Centuries later, Nazi Germany’s attempt to annihilate the Jewish people consumed itself.

Its twelve-year Reich ended in ruin, and from the ashes arose the restoration of Israel in 1948, fulfilling Ezekiel’s vision: “So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army” (Ezekiel 37:10, KJV).

America’s story bears the same moral imprint.

President Harry Truman, a lifelong student of Scripture, recognized the State of Israel within minutes of its declaration of independence in 1948. His decision defied the caution of diplomats yet harmonized with covenant truth.

Postwar America, burdened by debt and uncertainty, soon entered an era of unprecedented prosperity. Jewish refugees and scientists, among them Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, transformed American science, technology, and defense.

Later, President Ronald Reagan invoked the moral grammar of Scripture when he described the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” and strengthened U.S.-Israel ties. Without invading Moscow, the United States witnessed the fall of the Iron Curtain and the rebirth of freedom across Eastern Europe.

Certainly, many factors contributed to each of these outcomes; yet the consistent reality remains that those who blessed Israel, in turn, found themselves blessed through means as manifold as the providence that governs them.

For Christians, these patterns affirm truths that transcend economics or diplomacy.

Zechariah 2:8 (KJV) declares: “For thus saith the Lord of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.”

And Deuteronomy 7:6 (KJV) proclaims: “For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

These verses reveal the continuity of God’s covenantal faithfulness, which undergirds the very moral order upon which the American experiment rests.

Evangelicals who supported the U.S. embassy’s move to Jerusalem understood that honoring Israel aligns a nation with divine purpose.

Zechariah 14:16 (KJV) anticipates a future moment when “every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.”

This vision, deeply eschatological, reminds believers that Israel’s restoration and protection are inseparable from the unfolding of God’s plan for humanity. The moral foundation of liberty itself, the Exodus narrative of deliverance and covenant, derives from this same divine architecture.

Conservatives should reclaim moral clarity: a strong America stands with a secure Israel.

Supporting Israel’s defense, advancing joint innovation, and praying for her peace are acts of covenant faithfulness, not mere policy.

The $3.8 billion in annual aid, largely credits spent on U.S. defense systems, embodies a strategic and moral alliance. Israel’s Iron Dome informs American missile defense; Mossad intelligence has thwarted Iranian plots; cooperation in cybersecurity, energy, and water strengthens U.S. resilience.

Since 1948, roughly $150 billion in aid has yielded immeasurable returns in trade, technology, and stability under the Abraham Accords.

Scripture affirms the pattern: nations that bless Israel are renewed; those that forsake her fall. God’s promises outlive empires.

Support Israel.

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Dr. Alexis “Alex” Littlefield

Dr. Alexis “Alex” Littlefield, Chief of Staff for Christian Action Network, holds a PhD in International Politics and has coordinated high-profile events with congressional staff and administration officials, including assistant secretaries and agency heads. Subscribe to his personal Substack page.

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What do Two Friends an Evangelical Activist and Orthodox Jew Share?

By Beverly Newman, Ed. D.

Chaim Gleitmann:

Laurie Cardoza-Moore, a Zionist Evangelical activist, called on Vice President JD Vance to denounce Tucker Carlson for promoting antisemitism and misrepresenting Christian values.

She criticized Carlson and others for claiming to speak for Christians without understanding the Bible, emphasizing the need to defend America’s Judeo-Christian roots and stand with Israel.

Laurie has been my friend for many years – two strong women from two separate worlds that converge in Israel and in the love and awe of The Almighty. It is Laurie and her husband, brilliant filmmaker, Stan Moore, who brought my Dad’s tragic and heroic life story to life on the screen, which feature movie has won 30 international film awards across the globe!

These are people who live and breathe Israel and The Creator. If our world were filled with such love, our children would be joyful to be alive rather than fearful to play outdoors, glued to inanimate screens, distrusting of adults, and saddened by inexplicable realities harming young lives every day.

Their lives are the polar opposites of those whose voices are raised to denounce Israel and the Holy Word that praises it. Persons of fame and fortune can choose to use their blessings as instruments against The Almighty or in His service. We choose and will find out …

Will G-d bless or curse America?

Evangelical Christian leader Laurie Cardoza-Moore: Christians who don’t support Israel will receive a harsh judgment from God

Christians who don’t support Israel will receive a harsh judgment from God, according to evangelical Christian leader Laurie Cardoza-Moore.

The head of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations told the ILTV News Podcast that in Genesis 12:3, God says He will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel. She explained that those who ignore this mandate “are bringing a curse upon their own head, but they’re also subjecting our country to the curse because they are failing to present the biblical message, the biblical story, the biblical reason as to why we stand with Israel. I mean, it’s those Judeo Christian values our nation was founded upon.”

An American Christian who has spent much of her career fighting antisemitism, Cardoza-Moore recently made headlines for a row with media personality Tucker Carlson. She accused him of antisemitism and said he does not belong in the White House because his values do not reflect those of the American administration.

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If You’re Waiting for The Rapture, You’re Missing the Point

By Majority Report

Christians who treat the Rapture like an escape hatch are ignoring the real, bloody persecution their brothers and sisters face today. 

There’s a strange sort of cowardice growing in American pews: Pray to be swept away, then watch the world burn. The Rapture will fix everything, they say. So why fight now?

Let’s be blunt.

That posture is immoral. It’s unchristian. And it’s painfully ignorant of what Christians are already living through in places like Nigeria — where whole communities have been stalked, slaughtered, and displaced by Islamist militants and roving militias.

This is not a future hypothetical dreamed up by apocalyptic writers. This is happening now.

When the leader of the free world publicly declares he will “prepare for possible action,” orders the Pentagon to plan, and warns that the U.S. could go in “guns-a-blazing” if a sovereign state allows the slaughter of Christians to continue — that is not theater. It’s a global alarm bell.

President Trump has designated Nigeria a “country of particular concern” and threatened to cut aid or take action if the killings continue.

Nigeria’s government pushes back, insisting religious tolerance is a cornerstone of its identity and warning any foreign interference must respect its sovereignty.

Yet the facts on the ground are ugly: Boko Haram, ISIS-linked groups, and violent herdsmen conflicts have left countless Christians and their entire communities shattered. Anyone who pretends otherwise is either naïve or dishonest.

Revelation speaks to the church about tribulation. But persecution of Christians isn’t only a future chapter written in some distant apocalypse.

John warned us: “This is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come.” (1 John 2:18, emphasis added)

The “antichrist” is a spirit — an appetite for power, cruelty, and the persecution of the faithful — and it operates in our day. The question is not whether Christians will suffer someday; it is whether Christians will stand with those who are bleeding now.

Too many American Christians have grown comfortable with spiritual self-preservation — a theology of exit, being caught up “in the clouds.” (1 Thessalonians 4:17)

They say: “The Rapture will take me before the horror begins.”

Tell that to the 16.2 million Christians in sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, who have been driven from their homes by violence and conflict and who now live in displacement camps, says Open Doors.

That position is theologically shallow and morally bankrupt.

The gospel is not an evacuation plan. It is a summons: feed the hungry, bind the wounds, defend the innocent, witness in season and out.

To read Revelation as an excuse to look away from present suffering is to miss the entire point of Christ’s call to “bear one another’s burdens.”

First, stop treating persecution like a spectator sport — and stop assuming the Rapture will vacuum us out before the horrors now ravaging Nigeria reach American soil.

Pray — but do not stop at prayer. Learn. Donate to verified relief organizations that work on the ground.

Become a paid Subscriber and, for just $5 per month — less than a Starbucks coffee — you could help Christian Action Network fight for believers who cannot speak for themselves and sound the alarm while others stay silent.

Tell your representatives to use diplomatic pressure and targeted measures to hold accountable those who orchestrate religious violence.

And demand honest reporting: when the media collapses complex, local conflicts into lazy labels (often failing to even mention that the victims in Nigeria are Christians), these brothers and sisters lose a voice, and the righteous lose the facts they need to act.

We are not called to run when Christians are being slaughtered.

We are called to stand, to speak, and to suffer with them if necessary. If you’ve been waiting for the Rapture so you can ignore the world’s pain — get up. The church’s mission isn’t to escape suffering; it’s to enter it with Christ and redeem what can be redeemed.

AUTHOR

Martin Mawyer

Martin Mawyer is the President of Christian Action Network, host of the “Shout Out Patriots” podcast, and author of When Evil Stops Hiding.

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All Hallows’ Eve

By The Catholic Thing

Readers of books, and specifically fantastic books by Charles Williams and other Inklings, are summoned.

I do not like them as much as I should, for I have never been a fan of fantasy literature, and I note that among the Inklings, only J.R.R. Tolkien is a reliable Catholic. But C.S. Lewis is almost a Catholic, and the other two I have read are largely sympathetic. I wouldn’t put any of them on the Index.

Williams was the first I discovered. I haven’t fully discovered Tolkien even yet, though devoted types have upbraided me. Only Lewis is what I would call the preachy type, to whom I am naturally allergic. In a sense, Owen Barfield is the antidote to Lewis, though as an anthroposophist and translator of Rudolf Steiner, my trust in him is not unqualified. Let me just say that, like Lewis, I very much like him.

Yes, Tolkien. I should have been reading by now, but my aversion to hippies when I was young and impressionable kept me away. Tolkienists may be nice people, but I am not a nice person.

That is perhaps why I was drawn to Charles Williams, who by reputation was not a nice person. C.L. Wrenn (another Inkling), for instance, suggested burning him at the stake for his views, or something equally warm. While none of the Inklings were vegetarian when making arguments, this drew some blood.

It is ALL HALLOWS’ EVE today, and I have been rereading the novel thus entitled by Williams. It was his last, and as he died just a few days after Hitler, recent accusations of anti-Semitism against him are not really plausible. The worst you could say is that his Antichrist character is Jewish, but English-speaking intellectuals were not plunged into Holocaust reporting until later in that year, 1945.

The novel opens with the death of a young woman, told from inside. It was the sort of thing that was happening when the book was published. Airplanes were crashing, here, there, and everywhere, making death slightly more common than it is today. And Christians will know that death has supernatural implications.

Williams didn’t avoid them. His plot, which develops out of the young woman – Lester Furnival – gradually realizing that she is dead, and then wandering through post-mortal London or the City of God, with her also late companion, Evelyn. Interactions between dead and living are presented from both sides.

All Hallows’ Eve, the seventh and concluding novel in Williams’ remarkable series, deserved its place as one of Messrs. Faber and Faber’s more reprintable books, reissued in America with a preface by T.S. Eliot. It was Eliot who tagged Williams as the author of “spiritual thrillers,” a special genre.

For remarkable people like Dante Alighieri and Charles Williams were capable of writing such things. It is easy enough to write a thriller, but making a narrative “co-inhere” with a spiritual plot is difficult, on the scale of impossible. One must rise to classical heights; casual contact just won’t do.

But Williams, too, was a shameless “religious nutjob,” whose wanderings into, for instance, Jewish mysticism, can be distressing to the modern secular reader, for it suggests the universe is uncomfortably large, and there may be more in it than a remorseless secularism could tolerate.

Indeed, Williams was also quite aware that Jesus Christ was a Jew.

Curiously, it was the reliable J.R.R. Tolkien who delivered the most subtle criticism of Williams’ processions into the occult. But Williams goes there to a purpose, and comes back with important news from the supernatural realm. It is that both good and evil are present at large, and will both be encountered when one invades either nature or supernature unprepared.

A good life is, of course, the best preparation, and the Godhead, in the person of Jesus Christ, is the best companion.

Williams was, by nature, a theological writer, whether his genre is theology or not. He can be entertaining, but even this is meant to a theological end.

When he is writing of Dante – and his book, The Figure of Beatrice, seems to me one of the best English commentaries on Dante – he is the ideal “romantic,” founded in Godly intellect, not irresponsible emotion.

Williams was an exponent of the theological doctrine of Perichoresis, which was Latinized as “Circumincession,” meaning the sublime “dance” of the Triune God. And Williams almost anglicizes this as “Co-inherence.” But he extends it beyond the Three Persons of the Trinity, into apparently many worlds that are interpenetrating.

Indeed, Augustine understood something like this in Latin, even before the Greek Fathers invented technical terms, and one should use this as an excuse to explore Augustine’s De Trinitate.

The Holy Spirit is required in the understanding of divinity. The implications were never simple or commonplace.

Williams extends this to all relationships in love, and All Hallows’ Eve reveals it in an immortal love story between a husband and a wife, suddenly separated by death. Death is indeed, controversially, the means by which their love is enacted.

This argument was raised earlier in The Figure of Beatrice, Williams’ theological tract on Dante’s Beatrice, where earthly love co-inheres with divine love, and becomes the very introduction to the divine.

The almost tedious quality of the mortal life that Williams’ characters step out of, through the deus ex machina of death in an airplane wreck, becomes their “Hallowe’en.” There are two worlds adjoining, and each haunts the other.

Williams makes himself sometimes difficult to read by indulging in arcana and esoterica, which may not interest the theology buffs, like me. We can, however, understand why all that contributes, in his novel, to the importance of an Antichrist character.

It’s because the battle between good and evil is happening, and it is a battle in the heavens as well as on earth. Christ will be the victor in both places, but down here it appears to be a close-run thing.

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David Warren

David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.

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Deliberate Omissions from Our History

By Jerry Newcombe, D. Min.

An article in the Federalist caught my attention recently. It highlights some things in Alaska that are not required to be taught. Such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Christianity.

In the Federalist, David Randall points out that political correctness not only infects the social studies standards in Alaska, but in many other states in the nation, such as Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Minnesota. This is endemic, he pens: “Education departments in every state are on radical autopilot when they make social studies standards.”

In Alaska, the children are expected to be taught “action civics” and “protest civics.” Instead of teaching standard American history, they focus on identity politics and teaching indigenous peoples’ history, to the exclusion of our nation’s story. The radicals in charge of the standards of what is taught have no appreciation for our true history.

Look what Randall cites as noticeably missing from the curriculum: “The names of Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln are absent. But so are words like Christianity, Protestantism, and Catholicism; any hint that technological advance might have improved Americans’ standard of living; and virtually all of the narrative, events, and heroes of America’s wars.”

Here we are less than a year away from America’s 250th birthday, and so many young Americans remain clueless as to what makes America great. In fact, they don’t think it is great. And they applaud the killing of someone like Charlie Kirk, who declared otherwise.

The immigration battle—including the now-closed borders and the attempts to extricate the millions of illegals who took advantage of the previously open borders—points out a fundamental reality. The traffic is always one way. People want to come to the United States, not the other way around. They’re not rushing to get out of here, but vice versa.

But it seems as if the Marxists’ goal to keep us from learning about our true heritage is on its way to being fulfilled.

Five years ago, when we saw that rampage of statue toppling, we saw many young people in our nation desecrating our history. Not only did they tear down statues of Confederate figures, such as Robert E. Lee (incidentally, one of the greatest military generals America ever produced), but they were toppling icons of mainstream leaders of America’s past.

It seemed as if no one was to be spared from the historical purging, not George Washington, nor Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, and so on. I remember seeing a political cartoon where one of these young radicals was asked why he was tearing down the statue of an abolitionist, and he responded, “What’s an abolitionist?”

The Marxists continue their long march through the institutions in America—including our schools—in their attempt to separate us from the source of American greatness. Ultimately, that source is related to Biblical Christianity.

This rewriting of history reminds me of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984,” depicting life under a regime in which full-bore Marxism reigns. In this nightmare vision, the main character Winston is charged with constantly rewriting history. He constantly has to purge from the history books and the newspapers any politically incorrect items of history.

The rationale in “1984” is simple: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

And so we find ourselves in modern America where the Marxists try to prevent school children learning about our true history. That includes the incredible role the Christian faith played in shaping the positive aspects of the United States.

Founding fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, both reared in the Christian tradition, eventually allowed themselves to be theologically corrupted when it comes to Christian orthodoxy.

And yet, even these two realized the positive contributions the Christian faith in one stripe or another made to the creation and sustaining of American liberty.

John Adams wrote as much once to Jefferson: “The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite….And what were these general Principles? I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all these Sects were United: And the general Principles of English and American Liberty, in which all those young Men United, and which had United all Parties in America, in Majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her Independence.”

Not only has Christianity been influential in world history, it was very critical to the creation of the nation. But alas, school children in various places, including Alaska (if the present trends continue) won’t learn about these things. They might not even learn about our founding fathers. “John Adams who?” “Who is Thomas Jefferson?”

As I’ve asked before: Will someone please wake me up when the era of woke is over?

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How Should Christians Think about Artificial Intelligence?

By Family Research Council

As investors rush to cash in on the current boom in artificial intelligence (AI) and as AI creeps more and more into the everyday lives of Americans, Christians are left to wonder how to approach the burgeoning technology and guard against its dangers. A panel discussion at Family Research Council’s 2025 Pray Vote Stand Summit last weekend explored how Christians should think about AI.

Over the weekend, it was reported that a study out of MIT has helped to confirm the fears of numerous technology skeptics and observers that AI is contributing to the dulling of the human brain. The study found that the more internet assistance (such as ChatGPT and internet search engines) that a student uses to help complete an essay, “the lower their level of brain connectivity, … [with] significantly less activity in the brain networks associated with cognitive processing, attention and creativity.”

Jon Frendl, a tech entrepreneur and founder of the custom app development firm Cappital, warned of the negative effects that AI can have on the brain during Saturday’s Summit discussion.

“[W]e spend calories in our brain, and biologically we want to try to spend less to get to where we want to go, [so] we can kind of be lazy sometimes,” he explained. “… [We can] get the answer from ChatGPT but miss that growth of the wisdom muscle. That’s a real problem fundamentally, and so that’s one area … as parents with our kids to teach them to be skeptical. Classical education does this really well, … to flex those wisdom muscles [and have] conversations with our kids about AI. … Let’s show them AI lying and just saying things off the cuff that are clearly not true. Plant that doubt so they understand and they can flex that wisdom muscle and grow it.”

But it’s not just AI’s contribution to the loss of cognitive abilities that worry parents. Reports are emerging of minors being goaded into committing suicide by AI chatbots, as well as the continued decline of mental health linked to social media, which software engineers like Brandon Maddick say is likely to get worse with AI.

“If we’re engaging with these conversational AI tools on a regular basis, with personal conversations in a way that animates them beyond their tool capabilities — if that’s a danger for adults, you can only imagine the danger that it is for children,” he emphasized during the Summit panel. “I’m sure you all have seen news articles of the mental health crisis that is only going to be expanded upon with the advent of AI chatbots. And it’s scary to think about the future where the kids that are three, four, five, six today grow up and are in high school, and a third of them, their best friend is an AI. So I think there’s definite risks that can drive wedges between the familial relationships, as folks try to replace those with AI chatbots that cater to their every need.”

Frendl further cautioned that Christians must start preparing for a world in which AI will grow at an exponential level, which could affect livelihoods.

“[T]he way to really do a lot of work in AI is you build several AIs that help to build even better AIs, and those better AIs help you build even better AIs. So there’s an exponential nature to that,” he explained. “And when you combine that with the amount of investment across the board internationally, and then really you can look at power companies and chips, which are the fundamental things necessary behind this. … This is just getting started, and it’s going to radically change things at such an exponential [level].”

“But,” Frendl continued, “one of the hopes I have, … I think people are going to probably get pretty scared, probably lose a lot of jobs. Unfortunately, it’s going to be really hard. I think they’re going to be running back into the churches and they’re going to need embrace, right? I think that’s going to happen. I think that’s going to be the place of human connection that they’re hungry for. ‘The AI chatbot they fell in love with hit its context window and was gone. You know, maybe I need to go to church.’”

Maddick, who serves as head of product for the Christian AI platform Dominion, went on to argue that Christians must engage with emerging technology in order to establish moral and ethical guardrails.

“[I]f Christians don’t engage with AI at all, we will be left behind because the enemy is going to use it,” he underscored. “[I]t is a tool, [which should] not [be used] for personal conversation to replace … your relationship with your parents, or your relationship with your kids or your pastor. Using it in the automated, productivity enhancing ways that it’s designed to be used for is how … we can reap the benefits without seeing many of the harms. I think a model that’s not optimized for engagement, but is instead optimized for productivity rather than personalization is a good step in that direction.”

As to a general strategy for how Christians should approach AI, Frendl detailed a three-pronged course of action.

“[F]irst of all, free will,” he insisted. “We should never submit to AI — AI submits to us. It is a tool that we use. … The second is sober mindedness. I would make the argument that being sober minded means using our brains. … Have the mental fortitude to think through things, have wisdom and intelligence on something which you can grow, then you’re going to do that even more with AI. … [T]he third is love. I think we must have a critical look at what’s happening here in the context of love, and this thing’s trying to get me to start feeling like it’s there for me in ways that are inappropriate.”

Practical advice for parents to guard their children from the dangers of AI starts with disabling voice options, Frendl contended. “Don’t use voice with the kids. … Keep it to text. Because when you increase more senses and it starts sounding like a human, it’s easier for [children’s] pathways to think that this is personified. They made it that way for engagement. … So just use a text. … Just give me the facts.”

Maddick concluded by advising families to build relationships and foster community as an antidote to the isolating effects of AI and social media.

“[G]et out in the community with your kids,” he urged. “Find a set of like-minded parents and have your kids form human relationships. Social media is probably 1% of what we’re going to see with this, because the information you put on social media is tiny compared to the conversational information you’re putting into these machines. We’ve already seen the impact of social media fragmenting our communities, fragmenting families, fragmenting the kids community in their grade at school. Ensuring that your kid has human connections, … that your community starts to come back together is the solution to this, because technology is funneling us all into our different corners of the internet. … [We must] connect in person and form real human communities again.”

AUTHOR

Dan Hart

Dan Hart is senior editor at The Washington Stand.

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Turns Out God Isn’t Dead — He’s Trending

By Majority Report

The Bible is selling out, Christian music is breaking charts, and millions are rediscovering what truly matters. 

They told us faith was fading in America. That the old stories, the old institutions, the old Book — it was done. That people no longer needed the scriptures, the songs, the Sunday-morning rituals.

But if you peer beneath the surface, if you look at the numbers creeping up behind the headlines, you’ll see something quite different: a quietly rising tide of spiritual engagement.

Here’s one part of the story: in the United States, sales of the Bible have surged. In 2024, through October, the number of copies sold hit roughly 13.7 million, a 22 % rise over the same period the year before. In the U.K., between 2019 and 2024, Bible sales jumped some 87 % — an astonishing rebound.

What’s driving this?

Publishers don’t mince words: “We’re in a golden age of Bible publishing,” said one.

New editions, youth-editions, graphic Bibles, stylized covers, and robust marketing are part of it.

But wait — there’s a deeper current. According to the American Bible Society, the number of Americans who say they read the Bible outside church at least three times a year rose from 38 % to 41 % in their latest survey — translating to about ten million more people

So, amid a backdrop of secularism, religion-unaffiliated labels rising, and many assuming the church’s influence is waning — the data says otherwise. People are asking questions. They’re opening the Book. They’re buying the Book. That’s worth pausing on.

It’s not only in bookstores. The search for meaning is going mobile.

Bible apps, devotion tools, and online scripture engagement are increasingly getting traction. The shift is unmistakable: theology once confined to pews is now in pockets.

Now switch tracks from pages to playlists.

While the broader music-streaming industry is still growing, its growth is decelerating.

For example: in the U.S., total on-demand audio streams were up 4.6 % in early 2025, down from 8% a year earlier.

But within this plateau, guess which genre is bucking the trend? Christian/gospel music.

According to multiple analyses, Christian music has seen streaming growth of ~60 % globally over five years, and in the U.S. it’s among the fastest-growing genres.

The narrative here: songs that once belonged largely to church sanctuaries or Christian radio are now breaking into mainstream listening streams—commutes, gyms, playlists, TikTok.

A younger, streaming-native audience is discovering faith via beats and lyrics, not just sermons. The audience profile is 60 % female, 30 % millennial, and overwhelmingly streaming-first.

Here’s where the story gets interesting. Christian culture is not just surviving—it’s adapting, innovating, and aligning with the mood of the moment.

  • We live in times of mounting uncertainty: economic stress, culture wars, identity crises. In such a climate, many seek grounding. The Bible and faith give a narrative, a story bigger than the self.
  • The formats are new. A Bible isn’t just a plain hardcover anymore — you’ve got journaling editions, graphic-novel Bibles, youth-focused designs. Scripture is being made relevant for a generation raised on TikTok rather than Sunday school.
  • Music, too, has morphed. It’s not worship ONLY inside a church: it’s a background in everyday life, with the beat of the gospel replaced by the gospel in your earbuds.
  • Younger listeners (Gen Z, Millennials) are less hostile to spirituality than we assumed. They may not always flock to traditional institutions—but they are curious about meaning, identity, story. And Christian content is capturing some of that curiosity.

For writers, policymakers, church leaders, cultural analysts: this isn’t a niche blip. It matters. Because if faith is reviving — quietly, digitally, musically — then the assumptions many hold about religion’s future may need revisiting.

Churches might need to consider less “how do we survive” and more “how do we show up where people already are.”

Music ministries, devotion apps, social media scripture commentary—all become front-lines of engagement. For publishers, the boom in Bibles tells us there’s appetite. Evangelicals and traditions beyond might take note: the market is shifting.

Yet we must be cautious, too. A rising number of Bible sales doesn’t automatically equal deep discipleship, and a rising stream count doesn’t guarantee a changed life. These are signals, not assurances.

Engagement is the first step; growth in meaning and community may still be lagging. This is why, in part, publications like the Majority Report are necessary and need to grow.

So yes—the story many assumed was ending may in fact be rebooting. The Bible is not merely surviving—it’s selling. Christian music isn’t just being streamed—it’s being listened to at scale.

The digital age is not the enemy of faith—it may be its new vessel.

In a world of noise, churn, and change, many people are choosing an anchor. They’re turning pages once again. They’re hitting play on songs about hope. They’re opening apps that speak of transcendence. And if you ask me, that’s worth watching.

AUTHOR

Martin Mawyer

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Thirty-One Ways to be a Good Man

By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

America needs men, real men, who can be good husbands, fathers and grandfathers. Women need good men who will be their life long partners.

As my love, my life, my wife and I are approaching our 60th wedding anniversity, I can only hope and pray that she still sees me as a good man.

One man, who was a good man, was Charles James Kirk.

Here are thirty-one ways to be a good man:

  1. Honor the Sabbath: Dedicate time for rest and spiritual reflection.
  2. Journal Daily: Reflect on your thoughts and experiences to foster personal growth.
  3. Get Married: Embrace the value of traditional marriage and family.
  4. Read the Bible Daily: Engage with scripture to strengthen your faith.
  5. Never Surrender: Stand firm in your beliefs and values, regardless of challenges.
  6. Be Bold and Courageous: Approach life with confidence and bravery.
  7. Stand Up for Your Beliefs: Advocate for your principles in all areas of life.
  8. Engage in Conversations: Have discussions with people who hold different views to foster understanding.
  9. Serve Others: Look for ways to help and uplift those around you.
  10. Practice Gratitude: Regularly express thankfulness for your blessings.
  11. Be Informed: Stay educated on current events and issues that matter to you.
  12. Support Your Community: Get involved in local initiatives and support local businesses.
  13. Promote Free Speech: Advocate for the right to express diverse opinions.
  14. Encourage Young People: Mentor and inspire the next generation to be active and engaged citizens.
  15. Participate in Civic Activities: Vote, attend town hall meetings, and engage in local governance.
  16. Be a Lifelong Learner: Continuously seek knowledge and personal development.
  17. Practice Humility: Recognize your limitations and be open to learning from others.
  18. Foster Resilience: Develop the ability to bounce back from setbacks and challenges.
  19. Build Strong Relationships: Invest time in nurturing friendships and family bonds.
  20. Stay Physically Active: Prioritize health and fitness as part of a balanced life.
  21. Embrace Creativity: Find ways to express yourself through art, writing, or other creative outlets.
  22. Travel and Explore: Experience new cultures and perspectives through travel.
  23. Be Financially Responsible: Practice good stewardship of your resources and finances.
  24. Advocate for Justice: Stand up against injustice and support those in need.
  25. Practice Forgiveness: Let go of grudges and seek reconciliation with others.
  26. Cultivate a Positive Mindset: Focus on the good in life and maintain an optimistic outlook.
  27. Engage in Philanthropy: Support charitable causes and give back to the community.
  28. Be a Role Model: Live your values openly to inspire others.
  29. Stay Connected to Faith: Regularly participate in religious activities and community.
  30. Challenge Yourself: Step out of your comfort zone to grow and learn.
  31. Live with Purpose: Identify your goals and pursue them with passion and determination.

Kamala Harris Family Secret Service Agent Reportedly Moonlighted As Plus Size Model

By The Daily Caller

A female agent formerly on the Secret Service detail for Vice President Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff moonlighted as a model and never passed her physical fitness test, sources told RealClearPolitics.

Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle emphasized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) during her tenure before she was forced to resign in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump’s life, RealClearPolitics reported. Under Cheatle’s leadership, one agent on Emhoff’s detail was retained after she failed to pass her physical fitness test multiple times, sources in the Secret Service community told the outlet.

The agent was featured in a magazine profile and hinted at her Secret Service position in a photo shoot labeled, “Undercover, But Never Underdressed,” the outlet reported. The agent describes herself as a “nationally published curve model, plus-size fashion and fitness influencer, and body-positive advocate” on social media, according to RealClearPolitics.

Standards lapsed at Secret Service during the Biden administration so much so that an agent–assigned to protect VP Harris’ family–not only never passed a physical fitness test but was allowed to moonlight as a plus-sized model, @SusanCrabtree exclusively reports. pic.twitter.com/Hxg4PEijXe

— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) October 22, 2025

After the agent had failed her physical fitness test multiple times, she was placed in the Special Services Division, which handles support functions for the agency, sources in the Secret Service community told the outlet. Her new job handles the maintenance of the armored vehicle fleet and screens mail and packages coming into the White House complex, the sources added.

“The U.S. Secret Service is in full compliance with the Jan. 20, 2025 executive order and the agency discontinued all relevant programs and activities within the 60-day timeline,” U.S. Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi told the Daily Caller in a statement.

“Director Curran’s leadership is centered on recruiting and retaining a workforce characterized by attention to detail, discipline, and commitment to our dual mission while also ensuring promotions and reassignments are merit based – the right person, for the right position, at the right time,” the statement continued. “Director Curran has challenged his leadership team to reaffirm a commitment to the highest professional standards to achieve operational excellence.”

The agency reached 24% women agents and officers by the time Cheatle resigned, several Secret Service sources told RealClearPolitics.

RealClearPolitics also reported that during Cheatle’s time, agents in minority groups could enter chat rooms on the agency’s internal DEI website so they could discuss their struggles in the workplace.

Cheatle resigned in July after she testified in front of the House Oversight Committee about the near assassination attempt on Trump. She had served as director since 2022.

“The immediate reaction to her resignation is that it is overdue, she should have done this at least a week ago,” Speaker Mike Johnson said in a press conference following the resignation. “Now we have to pick up the pieces. We have to rebuild the American people’s faith and trust in the Secret Service as an agency.”

AUTHOR

Reagan Reese

White House Correspondent

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Navigating a Hostile World: 5 Ways Christians Can Stand Firm with Grace and Truth

By Family Research Council

How should Christians respond to a world increasingly hostile toward Christians and the values they proclaim?

This pressing question was explored during a panel discussion at Family Research Council’s 2025 Pray Vote Stand Summit over the weekend, where thousands of believers gathered for two days of worship, learning, and equipping to stand resolute in their faith. The panelists offered a multifaceted approach to engaging a hostile culture with compassion, conviction, and biblical grounding. Here are five key insights from their discussion.

1. Winning Hearts or Winning Debates?

Engaging a hostile world begins with rejecting its combative tone. “[W]e’re to speak the truth in love,” said FRC President Tony Perkins. And yet, “oftentimes when we get into these discussions, we want to win a debate as opposed to winning a heart” — a perspective that usually only deepens the divide. That’s when Mike Winger, founder of BibleThinker, chimed in, stating that “biblically speaking, you actually care about the other person.”

Speaking with someone we’re at odds with can be challenging, but as Winger further explained, “[W]e can be passionate … about where the country is or where our churches are at. But am I passionate about that individual and them changing their mind or getting at least a seed planted?” Anyone can change their mind later “down the road,” but “the agenda is transformation on the other side, not just a victory.”

How do you view the person you’re talking to? This, as Perkins noted, is a fundamental question to ask yourself when navigating these kinds of conversations. If you see them as a sinner in need of saving and blinded by darkness, chances are, you may find yourself far more compassionate and loving toward them than you thought possible.

2. The “Theology of Losing Friends”

Founder and President of Them Before Us Katy Faust put it bluntly. If Christians are to share truth in an age that cancels truth tellers, then we must “develop a theology of losing friends.” She encouraged believers to prioritize relationships and initiate connections with those who disagree, but to set biblical boundaries. “[Y]ou need to think ahead of time,” she said, “and you need to think biblically.” What are you not willing to do simply to keep the relationship? Are you willing to lose a friend if it means not compromising?

Scripture is clear that the world will hate Christians because it first hates and rejects Christ (John 15:18). As such, for believers willing to stand firm, losing friendships is an inevitable reality. But as Faust emphasized, when you lose that friendship, you should be able to say, “[I’ve] lost the relationship. Not because I was a jerk … unprepared … uninformed, or I was doing too much truth telling and not enough grace giving. [I] lost the relationship because the only way for me to keep it was to compromise on what I believe.” This, Faust urged, is not only “an acceptable reason to lose a friend,” but it’s also “what honoring your Lord looks like in … a hostile culture.”

3. Care about What the Bible Cares about

Christians must engage with all issues the Bible addresses, even those deemed “secondary.” Winger explained how Jesus Himself spoke on taxes and divorce, even if what He said was not accepted. Of course, sharing the gospel is crucial for Christians, but it’s a “narrow view of the gospel” to think that Christians can not or should not address other conversations within culture.

Winger went further: “[W]e’ve underestimated how much these secondary issues are actually our neighbor’s primary issues.” For many, issues concerning life, gender, identity, and more sit at the “center of their worldview. … And when you leave that alone, you’re leaving the stronghold center of their worldview alone” — the very aspect “that’s making them resistant to the gospel of Christ.” There are plenty of people who struggle with homosexuality, unchallenged by the truth of Scripture, who may agree to go to church. Yet, Winger noted, “when [their sin] finally gets confronted, they just bail.”

Christians can’t “abandon central issues our people are dealing with,” Winger stressed, because then “we leave them alone without any guidance from the light of the world on these issues that are destroying their souls.”

4. Be Engaged by Finding Your Identity in Christ, Not in Politics

Political engagement can spark spiritual revival, as Faust observed: “[P]olitical conservatism has led to a spiritual revival” when Christians speak with “sanity and evidence.” Natasha Crain, author of “When Culture Hates You,” chimed in, remarking, “There’s always the risk that we can conflate our identity. … We need to identify the risks” to avoid “conflating our Christian identity with any kind of political identity.”

However, Crain argued, “My concern is sometimes, when we’re talking about those risks, we never get past the risk.” Christians often spend a lot of time warning other Christians of the negative consequences of getting wrapped up in politics that they forget to address what it should look like — how Christians can faithfully engage in a way that sparks positive change. From Crain’s observation, “A lot of that pressure [Christian’s face] to hide because of … hostility comes from within the church.”

There are many “leaders within the church,” she emphasized, “a lot of pastors who are doing so much of the warning … that it makes us shrink back and go, ‘Oh, I guess I shouldn’t want to impose my values on others,’ or, ‘I guess I shouldn’t be seeking the power to do things right.’ We hear all of these kind of mantras in the church.” Yet, “When you pull them back, you realize that they’re really not logically consistent. They’re not biblically consistent. We are called to be salt and light” and “follow Jesus’s commands … to love God [and] others. … [P]art of loving others … is caring about their lives in the context of the societies in which they live.”

Ultimately, it’s an identity found in Christ alone that allows Christians to engage in politics without making an identity out of it. And when you are criticized for voicing God’s truth, Winger encouraged believers to “ignore them and keep moving forward.” And if you’re scared to speak up at all and are concerned you aren’t equipped, Winger added, “I would rather stumble forward and kind of mess up a little along the way and try to change the world than to just sit back. … I’m not worried about my identity. My identity is in Christ.” But “do I have the guts and the courage and the fortitude to stand up and continue to defend the truth against even this in-crowd that we’re talking about? That’s the test.”

5. God’s Word: The Anchor in the Cultural Storm

Above all, Perkins asserted, “We’ve got to be in the word of God, and we need to be in churches that are preaching the word of God” — especially “if we’re going to have the confidence to stand in this increasingly hostile culture.”

Furthermore, by being grounded in the word, Christians can better understand how the biblical worldview is not invalid. As Winger put it, “[W]e need to relearn how to be utterly unashamed of our Christian grounding … worldview … purposes, and reasons, and then explore the borders.” And if you’re accused of “trying to force your values on people,” he added, you can say, “Yes, I am. … Everyone’s trying to force values. I’m trying to force good values that are grounded in truth and God. … [Y]ou’re trying to force values that you see as valuable, you see as good, but they’re not grounded in truth, in God.”

“We’re in a moment,” Perkins observed. “How do we make the most of this?”

The panelists called Christians to action: mobilize, as Winger urged, by actively engaging culture; immerse yourself in Scripture, as Crain advocated, to ground your worldview; and embrace justice, as Faust emphasized, to protect the vulnerable. In a constitutional republic, Christians have the freedom to share their values boldly, and by anchoring themselves in God’s word, speaking truth with love, and standing firm without compromising, Christians can navigate a hostile world with grace, courage, and transformative impact.

AUTHOR

Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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When Evil Stops Hiding: The Book That Should Shake Up the Church

By Majority Report

There are books that inform, books that disturb, and then there are books that expose.

When Evil Stops Hiding does all three — and does so with the precision of an investigator and the conviction of a preacher.

In this harrowing yet deeply spiritual exposé, author Martin Mawyer, founder and president of Christian Action Network, pulls back the curtain on a world most Americans would rather pretend doesn’t exist.

It’s a world of online cults, digital sadism, and ritualized evil—groups like 764, The Com, and the Order of Nine Angles—operating in the shadows of social media platforms that millions of children use every day.

What separates Mawyer’s work from sensational true-crime retellings is the moral clarity that underpins every page.

His investigation is meticulous and documented—built from court records, federal affidavits, and evidence from law enforcement officials. But the heart of the book is theological: evil is no longer hiding, he argues, because it no longer needs to.

“The devil doesn’t wear horns,” Mawyer writes. “He wears a suit. A robe. A badge. Sometimes… all three.”

From the Texas teenager who built a cult of online predators, to the FBI informant who doubled as a Satanist publisher, When Evil Stops Hiding reads like a thriller—but every name, every crime, and every quote is real.

Each chapter draws a straight, chilling line from dark-web depravity to the erosion of public morality and, ultimately, to prophecy itself.

The book’s most shocking revelation is not the existence of these groups—it’s the complicity that allows them to thrive. Tech platforms host them. Bureaucracies ignore them. And churches, too often, remain silent.

Mawyer’s central warning is simple yet urgent: lawlessness has gone digital, and if the Church does not act, evil will define the algorithm.

Far from fearmongering, the book calls for courage. It ends not in despair but in defiance—reminding readers that the restraining power of God still holds back the flood, and that the faithful must expose what others won’t.

“A MUST READ! to understand the evil behind groups like 764, O9A, THE COM. Every parent or grandparent NEEDS this book. Martin makes you feel/sense the evil that is grooming youth online. Every youth minister MUST read. It provides sources for information and how to discover beginnings of problems. Published this month, Sept 2025. Actual events are recent. Factual reports from courts and police files. I have bought many copies.” — Steven R. Becker, verified purchaser and Amazon reviewer

Whether you are a believer seeking to understand spiritual warfare in the digital age or a skeptic trying to make sense of the headlines that no one wants to explain, When Evil Stops Hiding is a wake-up call. It is a book that refuses to whisper when the world is screaming.

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The Fight for One Law Under God Moves to the House

By Majority Report

What Sen. Tuberville warned about, Rep. Chip Roy is now putting into law — before it’s too late. 

“America is facing an existential threat — the spread of Sharia Law.” — Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)

That’s not a quote from Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s fiery One Law Under God speech earlier this month.

It’s from Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, who just introduced H.R. 5722 — the Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act.

With that declaration, Roy took the One Law Under God warning from the Senate floor to the House chamber — turning conviction into action.

When Sen. Tommy Tuberville stood before the U.S. Senate and called for a nationwide ban on Sharia law, he declared that “there is only room for one law in this country, and that’s the Constitution of the United States of America.”

He warned that if America continued to ignore the threat, “the United States will look like Europe in ten years or less.”

Now, Roy is taking that same warning and writing it into law.

He’s joined by a growing list of House cosponsors — Reps. Randy Fine (FL), Keith Self (TX), Tim Burchett (TN), among many others.

Their bill makes one thing unmistakably clear:

Foreign nationals who adhere to Sharia law will be denied entry, denied immigration benefits, and removed if they’re already here.

And the House Freedom Caucus couldn’t agree more, posting on X:

“Extreme Islamic ideology and the Sharia Law have NO PACE in America.”

H.R. 5722, the Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act, would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar visas, immigration relief, and residency for any individual who “adheres to Sharia law.”

It further directs the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Attorney General to revoke visas or immigration benefits for anyone found to be a Sharia adherent and deport them immediately.

Roy didn’t mince words in his statement:

“From Texas to every state in the union, instances of Sharia Law adherents have threatened the American way of life, seeking to replace our legal system and Constitution with an incompatible ideology that diminishes the rights of women, children, and individuals of different faiths.”

He added,

“Europe should be a wakeup call to America, showing what the spread of Sharia law looks like — the erosion of the West. America’s immigration system must be fortified to counter the importation of Sharia adherents — the preservation of our constitutional republic and its people depend on it.”

That’s the same message Christian Action Network has been proclaiming for years.

We even made a full-length documentary about it: Europe’s Last Stand: America’s Final Warning.

We saw this danger long before it reached Washington.

Our film revealed how once-great European cities — London, Paris, Berlin — surrendered to cultural submission and legal pluralism under the guise of “diversity.”

We even had the film on YouTube — until the gods of Google forced us to tag it “Adults Only,” as if exposing the truth about radical Islam were indecent.

Rather than wear that label, we took it down.

Europe fell asleep; that was our message. America doesn’t have to, was our warning.

Roy’s new legislation proves that at least some in Congress are finally wide awake.

Sharia law is not merely faith — it is government. It’s a political system that denies women their rights, persecutes Christians, and punishes dissent.

To defend the Constitution, America must say clearly what our enemies never hesitate to say: there can be only one governing law in this nation — the law of the United States.

Roy’s bill says it plainly:

“The Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security, and Attorney General shall deny any immigration benefit, visa, or admission to any alien who adheres to Sharia law.”

That’s not intolerance.

That’s self-preservation.

In just weeks, we’ve watched this fight for America’s identity move from the Senate’s warning to the House’s legislation.

Tuberville sounded the alarm. Roy picked up the banner. And a growing chorus of conservative lawmakers is standing beside them.

“Save Western Civilization. Stop Sharia Law.” — Rep. Chip Roy wrote on X.

That’s more than a slogan. It’s the line in the sand.

For years, elites told us it was hateful to defend our Constitution. They said every culture was equal, every ideology deserving of respect.

But the Constitution doesn’t coexist with tyranny. And Sharia doesn’t coexist with freedom.

Roy and Tuberville are right: this is an existential threat. Not to our politics — to our very civilization.

America has one law, one Constitution, and one God who gave us liberty.

If we won’t defend them now, we’ll have no one to blame when they’re gone.

AUTHOR

Martin Mawyer

Martin Mawyer is the President of Christian Action Network, host of the “Shout Out Patriots” podcast, and author of When Evil Stops Hiding. Subscribe for more action alerts, cultural commentary, and real-world campaigns defending faith, family, and freedom.

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Yes, Christopher Columbus

By The Catholic Thing

Today is Columbus Day, or (among the alternatively oriented) Native Peoples’ Day, both displaced in any case, as even major Catholic feasts now are, to a different date, so that people will have long weekends, or not be inconvenienced, or something. In any event, it’s a day now redefined in terms that make it unclear what, if anything, we are celebrating, or deploring, in this booming, buzzing confusion that we still (kind of) think of as the twenty-first Christian century.

So let us seek a little clarity.

For most of subsequent history following his voyages, Columbus’ reputation was strong and settled. It began to change, in the nineteenth century, in the United States, of all places. Washington Irving got the idea that Columbus must have been a Protestant and a Progressive – he opposed the council of learned theologians, you see, who told him (rightly) that the distance from Spain to China was greater than he was saying. But in an expanding and confident America, El Almirante became, in Irving’s imagination, the precursor of American initiative and vision.

Medieval Europe, another Columbus myth notwithstanding, knew the world was a ball (see Dante), not flat – what the historian Jeffrey Burton Russell rightly mocked as “the pizza theory.” Columbus didn’t “prove the earth was round” and no one thought so until ignorance of pre-modern times became widespread.

The 19th-century American progressives, however, had still other plans for the Genoese Catholic sailor. Andrew Dickson White, a founder and president of Cornell University, enlisted him in the Darwinian cause – for reasons similar to Irving’s, as a maverick who broke with religious obscurantism to “follow the science.”

Other appropriations and mis-appropriations followed.

The Knights of Columbus, mostly Irish, around the same time, saw the explorer as a model Catholic American. And the growing number of Italian immigrants – well, just look at Columbus Circle in Central Park.

In recent decades, of course, all that has become the case for the prosecution. A significant swath of American elites has chosen to repudiate its own history, ironically based on cherry-picked Christian principles that Columbus helped bring to the Americas.

He’s now also often charged with bringing all the evils that have allegedly plagued the Americas since 1492 – slavery, genocide, racism, inequality, patriarchy, rape, torture, war, environmental degradation, disease, etc.

Contrary voices have asked (e.g., the present writer): if we’re going to attribute all these evils to that man, doesn’t he also deserve credit for the many good things that have also followed on these shores?

Besides, he didn’t have to bring those bad things here because they already existed among the various native peoples also being “remembered” today. Few ever really look at native cultures and practices, which also included colonialism, imperialism, territorial conquest, a warrior ethos, human sacrifice, and – dare one say to our LGBT-ified elites – overwhelmingly, binary views of human sexuality.

Prior to the Great Columbus Reversal, in 1892, Pope Leo XIII praised Columbus in Quarto abeunte saeculo: “For the exploit is in itself the highest and grandest which any age has ever seen accomplished by man; and he who achieved it, for the greatness of mind and heart, can be compared to but few in the history of humanity.”  Leo added: he brought Christianity to “a mighty multitude, cloaked in miserable darkness, given over to evil rites, and the superstitious worship of vain gods.”

Amidst all these vagaries, the man himself has largely been lost. The Dominican missionary Bartolomé de las Casas, the well-known – almost fanatical – “defender  of the Indians,” noted the “sweetness and benignity” of the admiral’s character.  And even while criticizing some things that he did, remarks, “Truly I would not dare blame the admiral’s intentions, for I knew him well and I know his intentions were good.” Las Casas attributed Columbus’ shortcomings to ignorance about how to handle an unprecedented situation.

The explorer’s religion, for instance, was real. Columbus deeply believed that the Gospel had to be preached to all nations before Christ could return, and left money in his will for a crusade to retake the Holy Land.

Sincere Christian. Great sailor. Poor governor. When he was arrested and taken back to Spain in chains during his Third Voyage, it was because of his harshness towards both natives and Spaniards. The type is not unknown: an easy-going man who overcompensates when things get tough.

And also a sharp observer. He noted subtle differences among the Caribbean tribes. And with only rudimentary technologies, made amazing discoveries in addition to the new-found lands. Historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto puts it thus:

his decoding of the Atlantic wind system; his discovery of magnetic variation in the Western hemisphere; his contributions to the mapping of the Atlantic and the New World; his epic crossing of the Caribbean; his demonstration of the continental nature of parts of South and Central America; his apercu about the imperfect sphericity of the globe [the earth bulges in the Atlantic near Brazil]; his uncanny intuitive skill in navigation. Any of these would qualify an explorer for enduring fame; together they constitute an unequaled record of achievement.

Let it also be said: The world as we know it began in the fifteenth century. Not the world in the sense of human life or civilizations which had existed for millennia, but the world as a concrete reality in which all parts of the globe came into contact with one another and began to recognize themselves as part of a single human race – a process still underway.

It’s because of a small expedition by a few men and ships, led by Columbus, the real one not the myth, driven by a mishmash of personal ambition, the search for profit, and religious idealism, praying the Salve Regina together every evening at sea, that made the Old and the New Worlds into one, great, human thing.

A Spanish chronicler a few decades after 1492 called it “the greatest event since the creation of the world (excluding the incarnation and death of Him who created it).”

So Happy Columbus Day.

AUTHOR

Robert Royal

Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His most recent books are The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecution of Christians in the Twenty-First Century, Columbus and the Crisis of the West , and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.

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One Law Under God: Why Sen. Tommy Tuberville Is Right to Ban Sharia in America

By Majority Report

Europe Ignored the Warning. Tuberville Says America Won’t Get a Second Chance. 

When a U.S. senator stands up and says there’s only one law in America — the Constitution — the political class panics.

And that’s exactly what happened this week when Sen. Tommy Tuberville took the Senate floor and called for a nationwide ban on Sharia law.

Predictably, the media rolled its eyes. The Left smirked. The same people who think biological men can win women’s swim meets now tell us Islamic law poses no threat to the Republic.

But millions of Americans — people with common sense and a memory longer than a TikTok clip — know Tuberville is right.

Because we’ve seen this before. We remember 9/11. We remember Fort Hood, Boston, Orlando, Pensacola — the blood and the funerals, the families left behind.

And we remember the silence that followed, enforced by a ruling class terrified of offending the wrong people.

On October 8, 2025, Sen. Tuberville (R-AL) walked onto the Senate floor and said what everyone else has been afraid to say for 20 years: radical Islam didn’t disappear after 2001. It just moved in next door.

He named it — out loud — as “one of the greatest threats facing our country today.”

He warned that Sharia law isn’t just a set of religious customs — it’s a rival legal system, one that “openly calls for the destruction of America and Western culture.”

Tuberville’s words weren’t reckless. They were reality.

He reminded America that “there is only room for one law in this country — the Constitution of the United States of America.”

That sentence should be uncontroversial. Instead, it’s revolutionary.

Because today, saying America should live by American law will get you branded “Islamophobic” by the same Leftists who refuse to condemn Hamas, defend terrorists in Congress, and cheer for pro-Hamas mobs in New York City.

Let’s get something straight: Sharia law is not merely religion. It’s government, it’s politics, it’s control.

It regulates every part of life — family, business, inheritance, criminal punishment — and it does so by denying individual liberty.

Under Sharia, women are property. Christians are second-class citizens. Homosexuals are executed. “Apostasy” — leaving Islam — is punishable by death.

That’s not faith; that’s tyranny dressed in a prayer robe.

Tuberville laid it out: “In Muslim countries that follow Sharia Law, it is considered normal for women to be raped, trafficked, and forced to marry as young as six.”

And yet the Left — the same crowd that once screamed “Believe All Women” — goes completely silent when it comes to women brutalized under Islamic regimes.

You don’t hear the feminists speak up for Christian girls in Nigeria, where more than 62,000 have been slaughtered by radical Islamic terrorists since 2000.

You don’t hear Hollywood or the ACLU fighting for their rights.

Because the victims are Christian — and the oppressors, in this case, are politically inconvenient.

Tuberville isn’t alone.

In the House of Representatives, Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) and Rep. Keith Self (R-TX) have introduced legislation to ban the use of Sharia law in U.S. courts.

Only the insane would argue a federal prohibition on judges applying or recognizing any foreign or religious legal code in place of the Constitution.

Sounds like common sense, doesn’t it? But to America’s progressive elite, “common sense” is hate speech.

These lawmakers know what’s at stake. They’ve seen what’s happened in Europe, where entire neighborhoods are now governed not by national law but by Islamic councils and “community arbitration panels,” which some call Islamic No-Go Zones.

They’ve seen London’s police too afraid to patrol certain districts. They’ve seen judges bow to “cultural sensitivity” over justice. English citizens have been arrested for criticizing Islam.

And what these Members of Congress are saying, “Not here. Not in America.”

The Democrats once claimed to fight for women’s rights, free speech, and equality.

Now they bend over backward to defend a system that denies all three.

Feminists who claim to battle “rape culture” go mute when that culture hides behind a crescent moon.

LGBT activists who march for “tolerance” conveniently ignore that under Sharia, being gay is punishable by death.

And politicians who condemn “Christian nationalism” happily endorse Muslim nationalism — so long as it votes Democrat.

The silence isn’t ignorance. It’s ideological cowardice.

Tuberville said it best: “For too long, people have tiptoed around this issue, afraid to hurt somebody’s feelings or make people uncomfortable. But the time for being politically correct is over.”

He’s right. Political correctness has killed more truth in this country than any foreign enemy ever could.

Look across the Atlantic and see our future if we keep pretending this isn’t happening.

At Christian Action Network, we’ve been warning about this for years.

We even produced a full-length documentary film about it called Europe’s Last Stand: America’s Final Warning.

We had the film on YouTube for a time — until the gods of Google forced us to slap an “Adults Only” tag on it, as if we were promoting gratuitous sex. Rather than wear that label, we took it down.

That film was our message to America: Europe fell asleep to the danger — we can’t afford to do the same.

London — once Churchill’s fortress of freedom — now faces mass migration, crime waves, and anti-Semitic riots that the government is too afraid to stop.

Britain’s prime minister just appointed a Home Secretary who sympathizes with Hamas.

Germany and France are reeling from terrorist attacks their leaders can no longer prevent — because they imported the ideology that fuels them.

Europe is the mirror. Tuberville is the warning.

“If we aren’t careful,” he said, “the United States will look like Europe in ten years or less.”

Ten years, Tuberville warns. He’s not fearmongering — he’s describing the trajectory.

America was built on one law: the Constitution.

But even before that, it was built on one truth — that our rights come from God, not from any man or cleric or caliph.

That’s why Tuberville’s stand matters. It’s not about Islamophobia; it’s about identity.

Will America remain the nation of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, or will it become another cautionary tale of multiculturalism gone mad?

We don’t need Sharia law.

We don’t need imported ideologies that punish faith, crush women, and murder dissenters.

We already have a law — a better one — the Constitution of the United States of America.

And we already have a God who gave it to us.

As Tuberville put it: “If you believe that Sharia Law supersedes American law, you should be deported immediately.”

That’s not hate. That’s survival. That’s patriotism. That’s common sense.

For twenty years, America has been told to shut up about Islam. To “respect diversity.” To pretend Sharia law is just another flavor of freedom.

Tuberville has shattered that illusion.

He said what our Founders would have said — and what most Americans still believe in their bones:

“There is only room for one law in this country, and that’s the Constitution of the United States of America.”

It’s time to stand behind him.

Because if we don’t, one day we’ll wake up and find that the land of the free has traded its Constitution for a Quran.

And by then, it’ll be too late to get it back.

AUTHOR

Martin Mawyer is the President of Christian Action Network, host of the “Shout Out Patriots” podcast, and author of When Evil Stops Hiding. Subscribe for more action alerts, cultural commentary, and real-world campaigns defending faith, family, and freedom.

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Clint Eastwood’s sharing of his coming to personally accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior is a wonderful message about this Hollywood actor’s life who millions enjoyed watching over the decades. His life was full in every way from the riches of this world, but his heart and inner being was empty, sad, and longing. May you truly ponder what you are about to hear.

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