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In our generation, there is an increasing scent of anti-Semitism in the air. We've seen it for years in the United Nations. We've seen it for years on the progressive left. But we're beginning to see it in the very neighborhoods of traditional support for Israel: the conservative right, both politically and theologically. Let's reexamine this... philosophy, this idea, that has taken hold in contemporary discussion.   Daniel R. Suhr, “Playing politics with an ally,” September 21, 2026. Michael Knighton, “Boast not against the branches: A word to the Christians now turning from Israel,” June 30, 2026.

The president of the United States recently held a conference at the White House where he invited scientists and researchers and other experts in what we call artificial intelligence. As a result of that meeting, Donald Trump suggested that maybe moving forward, we should change our terminology and refer to this thing as supreme intelligence. Let me tell you why that's such a bad idea. Owen Anderson, “Silicon Valley is building a god in its own image,” September 19, 2026.  Tyler Durden, “They Don’t Believe in God…They Believe They’ve Created One,”  September 17, 2026.  R. Lucas Stamps, “Immortality without God,” August 25, 2026.

In one of the funniest news stories to come out in a while, we have the implosion of the Women's National Basketball Association. The WNBA, the Women's National Basketball Association. As it turns out, the women who run the league, and the women who coach the league, and the women who play in the league, don't know what a woman is. You can't make this up.   Ray Hacke, “Poison Ivy in women’s golf,” August 27, 2026. _________, “Inclusion leading to implosion,” August 7, 2026. Liz Lykins, “Former NBA player ejected from arena at WNBA game,” August 24, 2026.

September the 11th, 2026. Twenty-five years from that horrendous day that we now, by shorthand, simply refer to as “Nine Eleven”. How have we come in just 2.5 decades from our largest city, New York City, being attacked by Muslim terrorists, to this day where New York City is now presided over by a Muslim mayor? It's a remarkable story, and we need to examine it.   Joe Rigney, “Mosques and idols in America,” September 3, 2026.  A.S. Ibrahim, “The mayor’s invented Muhammad,” September 3, 2026.  ——— “America doesn’t owe you a blank check,” August 21, 2026. ——— “The real Islamist threat,” August 17, 2026.

Lindsay Clancy is a 32-year-old Massachusetts woman who is on trial this week after confessing to murdering her 3 small children in 2023. Her defense contends that she was suffering from a postpartum psychosis that was responsible for her actions. She's testified that she heard voices telling her to kill the children, and that at the time of the killings, she was suffering from extreme mental illness, and a shocking cocktail of psychiatric medications. While it's difficult to analyze this particular trial without sitting in the courtroom and hearing all of the testimony, it's not difficult to analyze the deep flaws within American culture right now, as we look at the social media responses to this trial. Let's see what we can find out. Samuel D. James, “Lindsay Clancy and the problem of therapy culture”, August 24, 2026. Christina Grube, “Defense rests in viral Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial”, August 21, 2026. Steven Wedgeworth, “A Canadian liturgy of death?”,  August 5, 2026.

In 2021, Planned Parenthood published an article, arguing that abortion proponents should change their language and quit using the terms pro-choice or pro-abortion. They said the problem is that those terms seem to imply that abortion is a badthing. They seem to imply that abortion is a bad thing. Instead, they said, let's change the terminology to other more positive upbeat things, because we don't want to stigmatize abortion as somehow being bad. Well, that's just what abortion proponents would do. This is typical. Instead of confronting the reality that abortion kills a living human baby, their solution is, let's monkey with the propaganda and the vocabulary so that we can continue to hide the reality of this barbaric practice. Let's talk about the state of abortion in America today.   Elizabeth Black, "Catholic Vote calls for Massachusetts governor's excommunication", August 13, 2026. David Closson, "Seared consciences in Massachusetts", August 17, 2026. David Closson, "Dropping the 'pro-choice' pretense", August 10, 2026.

One of the fun parts about being a pastor is that when I meet somebody who then finds out what I do, I get a whole range of responses. Sometimes there's respect, sometimes there's fascination, and sometimes there's a smirk. A smirk that suggests, “Oh, you're one of those.” Gullible, backward, non-intellectual. And I love those encounters, because I love it when people underestimate me. Let's talk about intelligence and Christianity. Grace Snell, “Supernatural Mysteries,” March 2026. Les Sillars, “On the edge of faith,” January 2026.

In a generation where socialism is increasingly attractive to people, it's interesting to stop and consider just how much interest the God of the Bible has and the question of property ownership. It says in both Psalm 24 and Psalm 50, that the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof. In other words, from the very beginning God claims ownership for himself, for the property, that is creation. As soon as Adam was given life in Genesis chapter 2, he's then given responsibility, ownership, you might say, for real estate. Actual property. In fact, the entire Old Testament can be seen as a massive commentary on property law. Why does this matter? Well, there's some real practical issues in front of us as our next election approaches. So let's talk about the question of the biblical view of property. Abigail Siatkowski, “What to know about Oklahoma State Question 844 and its impact on public schools”, July 29, 2026. Kim Henderson, “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property”, July 2026. Andree Seu Peterson, “Who really owns your house?”, March 2026.

Does it sometimes feel like the world that you live in today is more fearful, marked by outrage more than ever before. Do you realize that fear and outrage, in our generation, are more manufactured than real? Let's talk about the industry of what John Tierney calls the “merchants of bad.”

Remember just a few years ago, when many of us were arguing against the redefinition of marriage by so-called gay marriage advocates? They told us that everything that we were afraid of, everything that we were predicting, was just, uh, to be laughed off because we were crazy fearmongers. We were making up stuff, and all it was about was just letting people love whoever they wanted to love. Well, we said back then that if marriage is no longer about the bond between one man and one woman for life, then children will eventually be denied the mother and father that they were designed to have, and group pairings would eventually grow up because monogamy would become optional. Well, guess what? All those things that they told us would never happen? They're here. And elite publications like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are celebrating three words that you probably aren't familiar with. The words are polyamory, throuples, and polycules. Let's see if we can figure out what those words mean. Glenn T. Stanton, “Here they come”, March 23, 2026. Wesley J. Smith, “Just another animal?”, February 2026.

Steven Spielberg is a legendary movie director. He virtually invented the summer blockbuster in 1975 with his release of the movie Jaws. He's made a lot of profitable movies since then, but as a passion, he is personally fascinated with the topic of aliens. 
He continues that passion with the release of his latest movie about aliens. It's called Disclosure Day. Spielberg asked some very interesting questions in that movie. 
But spoiler alert, it doesn't provide any answers. Let's talk about the movies. Randall E. King, “Disclosing Spielberg’s god”, June 16, 2026. Collin Garbarino, “First contact, again” (podcast), June 12, 2026.

As we approach the end of June, have you noticed what a quiet pride month we've had this year? There are reasons for that. And the LGBTQ agenda, they're panicked. Let's talk about it. Joseph Backholm, “A ridiculous but revealing argument,” June 22, 2026. Travis K. Kircher, “Baseball team forfeits game as players refuse rainbow jerseys,” June 18, 2026. Ray Hacke, “Compulsory Pride,” June 17, 2026.

If you kill a language, you actually destroy an entire universe of meaning. C.S. Lewis coined a phrase a word “verbicide”, which he used to describe what he called the murder of a word. As a writer, you can imagine that verbicide for Lewis was considered to be a major crime. We can only imagine what C.S. Lewis would think today about the state of New York legally changing the language of their law code by substituting for the word mother, with the words gestating parent. Let's talk about this. R. Albert Mohler, “Mass verbicide in New York”, June 15, 2026. Joseph Backholm, “Government as super-parent”, June 5, 2026. Glenn T. Stanton, “Pushback for parental rights in Colorado”⁠, June 4, 2026.

In the church I pastor, we have homesteading courses, classes that teach, canning fruits and vegetables, building a pantry. The kind of skills your grandma taught you or used to teach you. Somebody recently asked me, is this church a prepper church? So, I thought about that question, and today, I want us to talk about the difference between being a prepper and being prepared. Les Sillars, “Visions of the Apocalypse”, September 2025.  Carolina Lumetta, “Prophetic Foreign Policy” , September 2025.  Kim Henderson, “Beans, Bullets, and Band-Aids” , January 2025.

“Tortured fear and stupid confidence are the preferred states of mind.” That’s a remark from Screwtape, the demon, in C.S. Lewis’ book, The Screwtape Letters.He’s advising a younger demon on the mindset that they want to create for humanbeings. Either a tortured fear of the future, a sense that we’re living in Hell, or a stupid confidence that feels like we’re smart enough to create Heaven. The devil is satisfied with either of those approaches because they’re both different from what God has for us, to walk in the moment in His presence. It seems to me that this comment from Screwtape Letters is applicable tothe whole subject of artificial intelligence. Because we live in the tension between those who tell us that it is the greatest thing ever, that we are going to revolutionize mankind verses those who say the machines are coming and the Terminator series will no longer be science fiction, it’s real. The truth is somewhere in the middle. And so we need to talk about artificial intelligence, for one more week, to answer the question, “Can it be used to advance the Kingdom of God?” Brad Littlejohn, “The right’s looming war over AI”, September 29, 2025.  Isaac Willour, “A reflexive fear of AI doesn’t serve Christ”, August 21, 2025. Matthew Branaugh, “Generative AIIs All the Rage. Handle With Care”, July 25, 2023.