Iran has spent the past year fighting a war with Israel and the United States...In the middle of that upheaval, the Islamic Republic has also escalated a campaign against its own Christian minority.

...Whatever its failures, and there were many, Old America was a nation that was more greatly influenced by the Bible than any nation in history, other than Israel. The Bible was used as a textbook...

...Marx saw religion as a top-down sedative administered by elites to dull the pain of feudalism. History offers a different perspective.

When pundits say that the U.S.—or the West, more generally—is “in decline,” what do they mean? There are many symptoms of decline.  But our problems are not a death sentence for Western civilization.

Lindsay Clancy’s trial is a vision of what a people become when they desecrate the sanctity of life.

A nation that cannot supply its hospitals with essential medicines is not merely experiencing an inconvenient drug shortage. It is a strategic vulnerability, and that vulnerability exposes a huge problem.

The Church of England has sparked outrage across the UK by signing a multi-year deal with a London nightclub to host all-night dance parties and other musical events inside the iconic 300-year-old building.

From reducing charges for violent crimes to reversing a gas-powered leaf blower ban, Democrats are bending over backward to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens.

...The original Beatitudes move us away from pride. They reveal our dependence upon God and describe the transformation of God's people. The new Beatitudes reverse that direction.

In 2001, New York City was a beautiful place to live. It was clean, it was thriving, and it was safe. But today things are much different. Predators roam the streets and drug addicts urinate on the streets.

...We thought religion had no real influence on peoples and cultures, so we failed to recognize the religious nature of the conflict. Today, it’s easy to see just how naive and shallow those thoughts were.

...According to the 9/11 Commission's final report, Iran assisted al-Qaeda in the 9/11 attack, based on information it uncovered at the eleventh hour.

... The 9/11 attacks were not something that occurred out of the blue. They were the product of decades of decisions, alliances, betrayals and unintended consequences stretching all over the world.

Once it was much more difficult for hoaxes to spread. Then, much of the population was grounded in truth, and so there was not as much fertile territory for falsehoods to take root. Unfortunately, times have changed. Today, it is possible for “fake news” and misinformation to travel all over the globe in moments.

Ask a chatbot about a disputed Bible verse and you may get a tidy answer. Ask America’s pastors about the AI response, and you get a warning: That tidy answer could be a real problem.

...Epidemics of suicide in the general population remain a concern, with legalization contributing to more of these tragedies. Suicides more than double homicides in America and receive far less attention.

...What began as admirable compassion for a woman has turned into something strange: an almost exultant, fan-like celebration of Lindsay Clancy.  Yet the Clancy fan club is not the only cohort of crazy.

...Women backing Clancy have turned the “postpartum” claim into justification for murder. A disturbing TikTok trend has mothers posting clips of themselves with their crying babies saying ‘Me too, Lindsay.’”