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July 29, 2026

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Military chaplains say promotions are tied to pushing Pete Hegseth’s Christian ideology

Active-duty U.S. military chaplains say leadership under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is evaluating whether faith leaders are ideologically aligned with Donald Trump’s administration and Hegseth’s Christianity. Several chaplains, who serve...


Christian schools raise alarm over Education Department’s “Do no harm” rule

When asked why he became a pastor, Danny Garcia credits his brother, who helped lead Garcia to Christ and later encouraged him to pursue a career in ministry. He told Garcia he had the right heart to be a pastor. But not everyone in Garcia’s life...


Top Kansas medical school supports child sex-change org despite state ban, growing criticism from experts

A leading Kansas medical school receiving millions of dollars in taxpayer funding trains physicians in sex-change surgeries for adults – but it supports an organization that has drawn criticism for its positions on gender medicine for kids, which was...


Paxton dodges ethics questions while claiming Talarico isn’t Christian

White conservative Christian men are rising up all over the nation to take their place at the top of their families, churches and communities. We’re witnessing their rise to power through the Rededicate 250 events where men like Mark Driscoll called on...


Moody Bible Institute names Rick Melson of Southwest Baptist University as its 11th president

Rick Melson, president of Southwest Baptist University, has been named Moody Bible Institute’s 11th president, the Chicago-based evangelical institution announced Tuesday. Melson, who has spent more than 35 years in Christian higher education...



FROM FAITH ON VIEW

Are We Good Neighbors?

One hour, twenty minutes. That’s how long Hugo Tale-Yax lay on a sidewalk in New York, in front of shops and businesses, in the path of passersby. One hour, twenty minutes during which dozens of people walked past Tale-Yax, some staring, some...


A Reflection on the Life of Esther: For Such a Time as This

The text in the book of Esther may be rarely encountered and unfamiliar to our ears, but the relevance of this book to our modern world should not be overlooked. In the book, we are introduced to an orphaned Jewish girl – Esther – who is being raised...


Dear Lee University and the Church of God

Dear Lee University and the Church of God, I remember once in my early twenties having a flashing suicidal thought while going through a rough time. That was the only time in my life, until earlier this year. I haven’t said much about leaving Lee...


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COMMENTARY

Tolkien invented a word to describe the Gospel’s turning point

Our culture has learned to distrust hope. Optimism is often dismissed as naïve, joy is treated as denial, and realism is increasingly defined by cynicism. Stories that end in despair are praised as honest, while those that end in redemption are accused of...


Why Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Haunts Us Right Now

One of the biggest cultural events this summer isn’t a superhero sequel or a streaming series. It’s a 3,000-year-old Greek poem. That The Odyssey would be a box office powerhouse is not all that unexpected—after all, filmmaker Christopher...


Art and AI

In November 2021, Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher, writing in The Wall Street Journal, posed a question that then seemed like a sci-fi thought experiment but now reads almost like a news item: If artificial intelligence wrote the...


Would these scholars ever get hired at a research university?

Those who read this blog know that I am very interested in intellectual pluralism in the academy. Whatever my personal convictions on political and social issues (readers might be able to figure them out), I believe the university should be a...


Paxton dodges ethics questions while claiming Talarico isn’t Christian

White conservative Christian men are rising up all over the nation to take their place at the top of their families, churches and communities. We’re witnessing their rise to power through the Rededicate 250 events where men like Mark Driscoll called on...


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GOOD NEWS

‘A place of hope and solutions’: the building promising a better future

As briefs go, it’s an ambitious one: design a building that will accelerate the societal changes required to create a more sustainable future. It’s a bold mission that appears to be one step closer after plans were unveiled for such a building on the...


Psychologist reveals the number one habit that seems good, but secretly kills your motivation

Most people will say that those who care about other people’s feelings and don’t want to step on anyone’s toes are a pleasure to be around. In fact, no one would complain if the world suddenly had a billion more people who considered other...


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