​John Cooper turns pain from spiritual abuse into new EP​

After Skillet's frontman John Cooper experienced spiritual abuse at a church he helped build for decades, he was at a very low point. From that pain, Cooper wrote the band's new EP, After the Storm. "The last couple of years have been...

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​Pope commemorates 9/11 attacks with prayers for peace and for those who died​

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, called for a renewed commitment to peace on Sunday as he marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on his home country. The Chicago-born pope made his first public comments to...

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​At NBCUSA denominational meeting, leaders, advocates and AOC urge midterm voter turnout​

The leader of the National Baptist Convention USA Inc., a historically Black denomination, said gerrymandering threatened to “destroy” the power of voters, in a plea for turnout in the midterm elections this fall. “You got to get back up and fight...

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​'Fighting the Hate': British-Israeli Journalist Advises Diaspora Jews to Go on Offense against Global Antisemitism​

For years, journalist and author Melanie Phillips has been one of the most articulate observers of the global social, political, and cultural scene, especially in Israel and the U.K. She's traveled to many continents in the past several months, working on...

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​‘Actual Blasphemy’: Critics Stunned By ‘Repulsive’ Video At Trump Convention​

President Donald Trump’s Republican midterm convention in Dallas featured a bizarre video that claimed he was chosen by God for a special purpose. The video, which was also used in 2024, is a modified version of Paul Harvey’s 1978 “So God...

​Meant for Evil… and our Gracious “Just Enough” God​

Those who follow this website may have read the post, “A Birthday (and Holiday) Lamentation,” written at the end of 2018. It was a difficult and personal post that Rondall wrote just before a seven-month silence on this website. Our family of...

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​Jesus Didn’t Die for Our Country—He Died Because of It: Prayers, Empires, and the Cross We Refuse to Carry​

On Monday, April 28, three people knelt in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol to pray. Among them was Rev. Dr. William Barber—pastor, teacher, and tireless advocate for the poor. They weren’t shouting. They weren’t armed. They weren’t vandalizing...

​The Last Great Civic Square in America​

I vividly remember being 7 years old when my grandma Mimi and I trekked from her little town of about 6,000 people in south-central Louisiana—Cajun country, for those who know it—to attend my first Louisiana State University game. She dressed me...

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​JD Vance’s Catholicism could be at odds with Maga evangelicals in 2028​

US vice-president JD Vance has worn his religion on his sleeve since converting to Catholicism in 2019. He recently published a book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, and memorably met the late Pope Francis at the Vatican on Easter...

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​Christian nationalists’ professed support for religious pluralism is often drowned out by perceptions that Christians are under threat​

Christian nationalism, a worldview that sees the United States as a Christian nation and believes that Christianity should have a privileged role in American civic life, has been shown to be related to a host of social attitudes. Research shows that people...

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​Looking Back On 9/11: Faith, Memory And Hope 25 Years Later​

Sept. 11 is a date that remains forever etched in the memory of an entire generation. Twenty-five years later, the images are still difficult to forget: Planes striking New York’s World Trade Center, smoke rising over the Pentagon in Washington, people...

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​The RASN’s Pretense Reveals His Emotional Immaturity​

RASNs (revilers, abusers, sociopaths, narcissists) are characterized by an inappropriate lack of maturity not fitting for an adult. They practice pretense – they pretend. Both of these negative personality qualities will be found in, for example...

​Petra’s Stars Reflect on 50 Years of Christian Rock​

Petra founder and guitarist Bob Hartman and longtime lead singer John Schlitt are looking back at more than five decades of Christian rock while looking ahead to a new movie and the band’s first studio album in 20 years. “I don’t want to limit God...

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​Giotto’s famed fresco cycle depicting St. Francis of Assisi restored in Florence​

A cycle of frescoes by Italian 14th-century master Giotto, depicting key moments in the life of St. Francis of Assisi, has been unveiled after a four-year restoration. The newly vibrant “Stories of St. Francis” were shown to the public last week in the...

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