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GOP Rededicates America as One Nation Under God as the Left Attempts to ‘Erase History’
By The Daily Signal As the nation prepares to celebrate America’s 250th birthday this July 4, Republican leaders in Congress joined a rededication service on the National Mall on Sunday to redeclare the country as “one nation under God.” While the Mall was full of prayer and worship, some online criticized the event, calling it […]
Critically Thinking about Life — #2
By John Droz, Jr. Right after I posted my last commentary, Critically Thinking about Life, I was sent a video about a wonderful 2026 university commencement talk. This was to UNC and given by country music star Eric Church. I’m not going to add anything, as he does a masterful job… (I’d recommend clicking on the expand arrows […]
Rededicate America!
By Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. The following remarks were presented to a public gathering responding to President Trump’s call for a Rededication 250 celebrating America’s 250 years. Rededicate 250: Prescott, Arizona: Sunday, May 17th, 2026, Presented by: Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. Hosted by: International Fellowship of Chaplains 250 years ago, a Remnant of Colonists rose […]
Over the Past Several Years, Here’s What We’ve Learned About AI And Why Christians Should Be Concerned
By Majority Report For a long time, artificial intelligence felt like a distant issue. It sounded like something for Silicon Valley engineers, science fiction writers, or investors looking for the next big thing. Most Christians understandably viewed it as just another new technology — impressive, perhaps useful, maybe even overhyped, but not particularly spiritual in […]
Vatican’s Bloody Bargains: From Hitler’s Reich to Iran’s Mullahs
By Amil Imani Background: Pope Leo gives top honor to Iran’s Ambassador and Iranian state media is making the most of it. Christopher Hale: Pope Leo XIV has named Mohammad Hossein Mokhtari, Iran’s ambassador to the Vatican, a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Pontifical Order of Pius IX, according to a certificate dated […]
FLORIDA: Sarasota Attorneys Declare Pohibition of Creamation of Jewish Holocaust Survivor “ABSURD”
By Beverly Newman, Ed. D. It seems that millennia of Jewish law which forbids incineration of Jewish bodies is not fashionable in certain elite Sarasota legal circles; it is, in fact, “absurd,” according to top attorneys and partners at Williams Parker Attorneys at Law, Mark A. Schwartz and Bonnie Lee Ann Polk, both of whom […]
A Founding Mother’s Faith: Abigail Adams
By Family Research Council “My mother was an angel upon earth. …Her price was indeed above rubies,” wrote John Quincy Adams about his beloved mother, Abigail.[1] Mourning her death in his diary, the secretary of State at the time and later America’s sixth president echoed the words of Proverbs 31:10 in a fitting tribute to a […]
Celebrating the Miricle of Miracles: Throngs celebrate Israel across the globe!
By Beverly Newman, Ed. D. One cannot help but notice when reading the Bible that most of the people groups mentioned no longer exist. Even the major empires—such as the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and Roman Empires—have passed from history. But this tiny little people group—the Jewish people, numbering no more than 17 million at […]
Trump Calls for National Shabbot as Part of America’s 250th
By The Geller Report He is really remarkable. PJ Media: The president is tying together the ongoing fight against antisemitism, Jewish American Heritage Month and the broader rededication of the nation, appreciating and embracing our Judeo-Christian heritage. Catherine Salgado at PJ Media: In a May 4 proclamation, Trump wrote, “This Jewish American Heritage Month, we […]
Type A Personalities and Trusting God
By Family Research Council Waiting. That’s a hard one. Oh, and trusting. Trusting as in trusting someone else won’t mess up, or slow you down, or do a worse job than you. Hi, I’m a Type A personality, and I’ll take it from here, thanks. Type A personalities (a concept originating from two cardiologists who studied […]
The New Religion of AI: Who Gets to Define What It Means to Be Human?
By Family Research Council On January 20, 2026, historian Yuval Noah Harari stood before the World Economic Forum at Davos and issued a direct challenge to Christians worldwide. “If religion is built from words, then AI will take over religion,” he said, then named Christianity by name: “This is particularly true of religions based on books, like Islam, Christianity, […]
DOJ Report Reveals Biden Admin.’s Expansive Religious Liberty Violations and Hostility to American Christians
By Family Research Council The presidency of Joe Biden was a dark, though relatively brief, chapter in American history, replete with widespread prosecution and persecution of American Christians. President Donald Trump repeatedly pledged on the campaign trail to establish a federal task force to investigate and eradicate the anti-Christian bias evinced and enacted by the […]
The Iranian ‘Oskar Schindler’
By Amil Imani In the chilling winter of 1940, Paris had lost its light. The Nazi flag flew over the Eiffel Tower, and the machinery of the Holocaust was beginning to grind through the streets of France. While many diplomats packed their bags or looked the other way to preserve their careers, one man stayed […]
America Needs the Bible
By Jerry Newcombe, D. Min. America needs the Bible more than ever. Thankfully, at the Museum of the Bible last week, they had various leaders read through the whole book. Even the president participated. Two months before it happened, I wrote about it, calling it “An Ambitious Bible Reading Plan.” AmericaReadsTheBible.com explains their vision: “In […]
White House Shooter Manifesto: Would-Be Trump Assassin Was a Radical Anti-Christian Leftist
By The Geller Report Fox News reporter: The shooters manifesto said he wanted to target administration officials. A bloodbath was averted. The Democrat party should be designated a terrorist organization. WATCH: Hakeem Jeffries doubles down after shooting at correspondence dinner again calls for ‘maximum warfare’ on Republicans According to reports, Allen’s brother alerted New London […]
Young Men Are Becoming Increasingly Religious, Polling Confirms
By Family Research Council Newly released polling data has confirmed what many pastors and churchgoers have long suspected: young men are bucking the cultural trend of declining religiosity and returning to the church in droves. A Gallup survey released Thursday revealed a remarkable surge in young men saying that religion is “very important” to them, with data […]
“Practicing Muslims Can’t Disavow ‘Sharia’ Even If They Wanted To”
By The Geller Report As a professor at Georgetown University and Washington Post columnist, Shadi Hamid is a made guy in today’s leftist establishment, and it is from those positions of oracular authority that he has delivered a sobering message to the growing movement to ban Sharia in the United States. In the WaPo on Wednesday, he […]
U.S. Ambassador to Vatican: It is ‘intolerable that Christians are being targeted for persecution in Nigeria’
By Jihad Watch Kudos to Brian Burch for raising the issue of Muslim s murdering Christians for their faith in Nigeria. The Vatican has not prioritized the issue as it should have done. Just days ago, Pope Leo XIV in Cameroon urged “Christians and Muslims to heal wounds of conflict,” but the situation there doesn’t involve Christians […]
For God and Country — Or for Myself?
By The Catholic Thing David G. Bonagura, Jr.: Americans must rediscover a love of God and country, and a willingness to serve them above all else. Irecently discovered All Creatures Great and Small, a 1930s-set British comedy-drama chronicling a trio of veterinarians working in rural Yorkshire. In the latest episode that I watched, Great Britain declares war […]
The Politics of Shill
By The Catholic Thing The pope may be many things in many contexts, but he should avoid becoming a shill for the Democratic Party. This is how he came across when he delivered a political statement just after he had been visited by David Axelrod, Obama’s behind-the-scenes heavy. The effect was redoubled when leading liberal […]
PERKINS: Civil Leaders and Spiritual Authority
By Family Research Council President Trump’s Truth Social post last weekend which seemed to depict him as the Great Physician (though he later deleted it) serves as a reminder of why the biblical principle often described as the separation of church and state still matters. Yes, I support that separation and always have. Let me […]
The Most Important Debate in Cuba Happening Today: Christians and Politics (Part 1)
By Family Research Council My perspective on several matters has changed. One view that evolved naturally — and without external pressure — is that faith and political engagement need not be mutually exclusive. Back in 2012, in “Pasajes de la Luz,” I wrote about this very subject. What I failed to grasp at the time […]
Trump Doubles Down Attacks On Pope, Refuses To Apologize
By The Daily Caller President Donald Trump refused to apologize for his weekend comments tearing into Pope Leo XIV as a “weak” leader who caters to the radical left. Trump on Sunday blasted the Pope as “weak” on multiple issues, and said the Christian leader should “focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician.” Trump ran […]
Artemis II Mission Testifies to God’s Glorious Greatness
By Family Research Council “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge” (Psalm 19:1-2). So testified a handwritten card on Artemis II, as it carried the message of heavenly majesty further from earth than any human-occupied vehicle […]
EASTER JIHAD: Muslims Slaughter 26 Christians, Churches Burned, Women and Children Kidnapped in Nigeria
By The Geller Report 26 Christian worshippers slaughtered in Easter Sunday attacks across Nigeria. Churches burned. Women and children abducted. The world stays silent. Wholesale slaughter. Muslims butchering mon-Muslims. No news. No coverage. It’s expected. Silent affirmation and sanction of Islamic brutality. Nigeria: The night before Easter Sunday, Muslims storm Christian area in Borno state, […]
Why the Resurrection of Jesus Is the Most Important Event in History
By The Daily Signal History is chock-full of pivotal moments, from Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon to Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler deciding to invade Russia, to George Washington turning down power. One moment eclipses them all—and most people at the time had no idea this moment would change the world forever. Mankind has a virtually guaranteed […]
The New Cost of Religious Belief
By Majority Report Across nations and institutions, expressing faith is no longer just a right, it’s a risk. In this modern age of social media, we’re told that what “trends” is what matters. If something is important, it spreads. It dominates headlines. It demands attention. But not everything that trends reaches the masses. They don’t […]
Easter: God, Love, Life
By The Catholic Thing Msgr. Charles Fink: The message of Easter is not that there will be no more crosses but that all our crosses, even death, can lead to new and eternal life, an eternal life begun here and now by our union with the risen Lord. During the first half of the 20th century, […]
PERKINS: God Hears the Prayers of Just Warriors
By Family Research Council When God delivered the children of Israel from bondage in Egypt and defeated Pharaoh’s army, Moses responded with a song, recorded in Exodus 15. He declares, “The Lord is a man of war, the Lord is His name.” That description is revealing. Scripture repeatedly presents God as one who defends His […]
Where Evil Became Victory: Good Friday for a Suffering World
By Family Research Council Good Friday is not a distant echo of tragedy. It’s the beating heart of one of history’s most astonishing days. On this day, we stand in awe at the foot of the cross — where the sinless Son of God, the radiant Morning Star, was betrayed with a kiss, falsely condemned […]