Undercover footage has exposed the teachings of a lesbian minister from Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate—and aspiring pastor—James Talarico’s home church. The minister, who reportedly uses “they/them” pronouns, claimed Christ “didn’t die to save our sins,” condemned God as “a vengeful, killing-people kind of God,” and questioned whether Jesus ever existed. “Jesus was political,” she said. “Jesus was put on that cross, not to save us; Jesus was put on that cross because Rome hated Him and they thought He was a threat to their domination of that area. And so they killed Him. He didn’t die to save our sins. That makes a whole lot more sense to me than to say that some God would kill His Son for us. That doesn’t make sense. How does that make up for all the things I can do? No, it doesn’t.”

Christians have been persecuted more than any other religious group. And it’s not just confined to atheistic or Islamic countries. We’re starting to see more and more persecution in the United States. We see it in the woke ideology that has infiltrated our education system. We see it permeating the military. We see it being spread by the media. I describe it as an “ABC culture”: Anything But Christ. When you stand up and say, “I’m a Christian,” you can expect pushback, resistance, and even persecution. Paul said, “Everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution” (2 Timothy 3:12). That’s a promise of God we rarely claim.

According to Pew Research and First Liberty, 90 million self-identified evangelical Christians in America are eligible to vote. We are the largest voting bloc in America, but tragically, of the 90 million eligible to vote, 40 million do not vote, and 15 million are not even registered. The majority of Christians sit it out, and as a result, we allow evil and are ceding ground to Satan. When evil policies are enacted and Christians sit it out, we have no one to blame but ourselves. Christians need to let their voices be heard and stand up for God's definition of marriage and sanctity of life from the womb to the tomb.

President Donald Trump has nominated Cissie Graham Lynch, daughter of Franklin Graham, to serve as U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, a role centered on leading U.S. diplomatic efforts to promote and protect global religious liberty.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani repeatedly branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "war criminal," but faced criticism for remaining largely tight-lipped about Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. While Mamdani has labeled the Iranian government "brutal" and cited its "systematic repression of its own people," critics railed against him for declining to use similar language about Pezeshkian, who arrived in the city on Wednesday.

We live at a time like no other; everywhere we look, we see signs telling us that the disasters of Revelation 6:1-8 are ever so close. The catastrophic events so far in 2026 point to the start of this time of judgment on the near horizon and, therefore, to Jesus’ soon appearing. If ever there was a time for excitement from the recognition that Jesus’ appearing is ever so close, this is it. Someday, perhaps very soon, our wait will end.

This tragic story is the natural consequence of the increasing commodification of children and putting adult desire over the rights of children. We see it with abortion, where a woman’s supposed “right to choose” trumps the right to life of her unborn child. We see it with traditional IVF and other reproductive technologies (which are very hard to do in a pro-life way), where babies are routinely discarded because they don’t “make the grade,” they have a genetic abnormality, they are the “wrong” sex, or the family is simply done having children. And we see it with the creation of LGBTQ families, where children are created to be purposefully deprived of either their mother or their father.

For the Jewish people, the Day of Atonement is the holiest day of the year as God divinely judges humanity. The believer’s sin is already forgiven and their heavenly eternity is secured. We must fervently oppose the suggestion that mankind in its sinful state is “passable,” as the world suggests, acknowledging instead that man is desperately wicked and our only hope is found in the beautiful and costly sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ.

As correct as the President is about the erroneous proclamations of an “AI apocalypse”—and the substantial power that would come with America winning the “AI race”—he falls short in his own predictions by turning a deliberate blind eye to the technology’s very real dangers. At its current stage of development, AI has crossed very real ethical boundaries. It has never been so easy to disseminate lies, concoct fake images, publish false news stories, manipulate public perception of important—even religious—subjects, and much more. Add in obvious surveillance capabilities and how the technology is being ingrained into banking, military, and other vital systems, and you have a sure recipe for an alarming level of power.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) recently issued a landmark legal opinion that fundamentally changes how the federal government interacts with faith-based organizations. The opinion declares that blocking federal funds from being used for religious purposes or by religious groups is generally unconstitutional.

In his teaching, Paul delineated a clear link between the God-instituted union of one man and one woman (Genesis 2:24) and the relationship between Christ and His bride—the church. Whether you’re married here on Earth or not, if you’ve placed your faith in Jesus Christ as your Savior, you have the amazing blessing of being known as the Lord’s bride. What an honor and joy we have knowing we are united with the God of the universe and will one day live with Him forever!

In our modern day, the inventive genius of man has perfected a machinery of communication which, through speeding up and extending the influence of information and ideas, has given propagandists an efficient system to bombard the masses with their message. However, the rise of generative AI has now filled the information space with a new, unique, and somewhat unwanted form of propaganda: "slopaganda."