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🌎 Here’s what to know about Pete Hegseth’s new Office of Religious Affairs


October 06, 2026

Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul

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​Here’s what to know about Pete Hegseth’s new Office of Religious Affairs​

In a “State of the Force” address on Wednesday (Sept. 30), Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the creation of an Office of Religious Affairs that would elevate “spiritual health at the same level as physical health.” The office, and its director...

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Gen Z coeds are rushing to the altar — as ‘Ring By Spring’ gets a tradwife-era makeover​

Generations of young women attending America’s conservative colleges have half-joked with each other about leaving campus with two things — a diploma and a husband. Long before TikTok reinvented the concept of staying barefoot, pregnant...

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Faith over fear: How a Michigan church embraces its Muslim neighbors​

An anti-Islam rally promoted as a “Christian Crusader March” drew hundreds of demonstrators and counterdemonstrators to this majority Arab American city of 110,000. A few participants carried assault rifles as police in riot gear patrolled...

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​Study: Gen Z is more religious than older groups, defying expectations​

Maybe we've got these kids all wrong. America has been in a steady religious decline, with each generation of adults less faithful than the one before it. Generation Z, it was thought, would continue that pattern, with one study labeling...

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​Rural youth leader sees impact after stepping into role​

“I think it’s been amazing to discover the gospel advancing … with all of our students,” said Kathy Barrett, youth director at First Baptist Church in Cameron. In 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Barrett felt God’s call to serve in youth...



FROM FAITH ON VIEW

​The American Idol of Freedom

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a lot of talk about freedom in the United States. This was especially true when protesters called for the government to lift shelter-at-home orders. In one thread about this on my Facebook wall, a person...

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Make Christianity Powerless Again​

There are few things as detrimental to a person’s faith as a popular minister “falling from grace.” We enjoy putting our favorite preachers on a pedestal, identifying ourselves with their beliefs, charisma, and conviction. But when they fall, we fall...


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COMMENTARY

​The Cornell case is exposing a legal gap around intoxication and sexual assault​

The reopened criminal investigation into an alleged gang rape at Cornell University has sharpened scrutiny on voluntary intoxication laws, which make it harder to protect assault survivors if they chose to drink alcohol or use drugs at the time of...

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Has the Church Settled for Fake Fireplaces?​

My family has a little tradition in the winter. We pull up a fireplace channel on the Roku, turn the lights down low, and let it run for hours — flickering flames, the soft crackle of a fire that isn’t actually there. It’s convenient. No wood to split, no ash to...

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Books of the summer, part two: Furious Minds—plus more about "less"​

Laura K. Field writes in her first chapter: I have been writing about New Right intellectuals since 2019. The most common response I get when I mention this to liberals is something along the lines of “Trumpy intellectuals? Now that’s an...

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​Two Notions of the Christian Life: Forgiving and Transforming Grace​

I would like to reflect on two ways to speak of the Gospel of our salvation. The first is the more common way that has to do with justification by grace through faith. I call this Forgiving Grace. The second is in terms of understanding and bearing...

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​Do you love Jesus on HIS terms or yours?

John 6:66 is both striking and tragic. The verse immediately follows Jesus’ “Bread of Life” discourse (John 6:22-71) in which the Lord told the crowd: “I am the bread of life.” (v35) Jesus is the bread who came down from Heaven. Unlike their ancestors...


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GOOD NEWS

​Antarctica’s Wind Farm Saves 122,000 Gallons of Diesel Over 15 Years Powering McMurdo Station

As they near the end of their productive lives, the 3 wind turbines spinning on Antarctica’s Ross Island have made an enormous impact on the energy market of the continent. Built and commissioned over 2008-2009, the Ross Island Wind...

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Jalen Brunson Shines as A Transfer Student in Hilarious ‘SNL’ Spoof of ‘High School Musical’​

Move over, Troy and Chad. There’s a new baller in town. During the Sept. 26 season premiere of “Saturday Night Live,” host Jalen Brunson starred as a shy new transfer student in a spoof of Disney Channel’s “High School Musical.” And let’s just say...


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