Op-ed: Affirming LGBTQIA+ youth is pro-life
I’m a pediatric specialty therapist and a convert to the Catholic faith – I’m a part-time seminarian – and while I remain faithful to my church I feel that it is time to speak out …
American missionary kidnapped in Ukraine
An American missionary serving as a pastor in Ukraine with Melitopol’s Word of Life Church was kidnapped by a number of Russian soldiers on Saturday. The 50-year-old pastor, Dmitry Bodyu, was reportedly taken from his …
The best and worst of religious power
It has been a month now since Russian President Vladimir Putin used his country’s forces to launch an invasion of Ukraine. With the horror of war, the world has seen the power of Christian compassion …
Conservative writer: More Christians in politics should not be goal
More and more Christians are visibly involved in politics. But that shouldn’t necessarily be the goal, conservative columnist David French says. In an essay for The Dispatch, French says that he used to be overjoyed …
Opinion | Christians and the Arts: A call to storm the gates
Michelangelo, Tolkien, Milton, Bach, Bonhoeffer: painter, author, poet, composer, theologian, respectively. What do they all have in common? They stormed the gates of hell with their artistic works and creative thoughts which influenced their contemporary …
Medical advocate: Transhumanism, Christianity incompatible
The materialism of transhumanism is incompatible with the spirituality of Christianity. That’s the argument that lawyer and ethicist Wesley J. Smith put forward in in a March 24 essay in First Things, a journal about …
Texas teen: God helped me survive tornado
A 16-year-old Texan miraculously survived after getting caught in the middle of a tornado while he was returning from a job interview. Riley Leon of Elgin, Texas was driving a 2004 Chevrolet Silverado when storms …
Christian group seeks to ‘green’ Israel
A Christian group has the goal of planting 5,000 trees in Israel by the end of the year and has long-term plans to use future sabbatical years to plant up to 20,000 trees — including …
Hillsdale College positioning itself to rewrite American education
A small, Christian college in southern Michigan has become a quiet but influential player in a national debate over public schools. Hillsdale College — a 177-year old institute founded by Free Will Baptists, boasting approximately …
I’m sorry Judge Jackson: Defending political fundamentalism over Black lives
The nomination and expected confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court has put on display the ever-widening political and cultural divide in the United States. …