Two podcast hosts hardly contained their laughter after reading a post on X that made light about “digging up” the dead body of the assassinated Turning Point USA president Charlie Kirk and “doing it again.” Not only was the backlash immediate, but nearly 30 sponsors pulled their support. During last week’s Thursday episode of their progressive podcast I’ve Had It—titled “Drinking MAGA Tears” and focused on Democratic midterm wins—Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan read the line aloud. Both burst into extended laughter lasting. The clip quickly spread, drawing intense backlash. At least 25 companies (including Cash App, Chewy, Boll & Branch, Zenni Optical, Casper, Honeylove, HexClad and others) pulled or distanced their advertising support, with some explicitly citing opposition to violence of any kind.

During a 60 Minutes interview, President Donald Trump partially blamed Republicans' poor performance in the 2026 midterm elections on what he called a “great dislike for Israel” among American voters, alongside, of course, opposition to the war with Iran and rising gasoline prices. His remarks come amid declining American support for Israel, even as Vice President J.D. Vance also suggests Republicans may need to reconsider their “relationship” with the Jewish state to win future elections.

These leaders often quote Scripture, talk about "love" and "compassion," and sound deeply religious. Yet, they twist the text at every turn—redefining marriage, blurring the explicit design of God’s creation of two distinct genders (Gen 1:27, Matt 19:4), and undermining the sanctity of human life. They get away with it because, so few Christians know their Bibles well enough to catch the distortion. It is the age-old tactic of the serpent in the Garden of Eden: taking a grain of truth and mixing it with a deadly lie.

There’s no shortage of takeaways from last Tuesday’s shellacking, but one of the most unfortunate is the door the GOP’s drubbing opened for radical Islam. In Michigan, which is sounding more like an arm of the Tehran propaganda machine every day, two of the most powerful offices are laying an unnerving groundwork for the nation’s next chapter. As Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed openly warned in his victory speech, winning his seat was never the goal. “The goal is to use that seat to transform our politics.” And that’s what every American should be afraid of.

The lessons that have shaped her most deeply, she said, came from “sitting with mothers who’ve lost sons and daughters to persecution, listening to pastors who’ve rebuilt their congregations after their churches have been burned, and meeting families driven from their homes because of their beliefs.” Those encounters remain vivid. “I’ve stood in the mass graveyards in northern Iraq,” Lynch said. “I’ve spoken with displaced women in Sudan hiding in the mountains. I’ve met with family members of the 21 Coptic Christians who have been beheaded by ISIS on the shores of Libya. They are not statistics. They have faces, names, and families, and I will carry their stories with me into this role.”

I believe President Trump made a Churchill-like decision in confronting Iran's nuclear weapons program. He saw the gathering storm. He received the intelligence that Iran's fanatical death cult of modern-day Nazis was on the verge of a nuclear bomb, and he acted. He knew there were serious political risks in an election year, but he did the right thing anyway. He put the safety and security of the American people over his electoral fortunes. His reward? A blue tsunami in the midterms. But I believe, just as history now judges Winston Churchill very kindly for his courageous leadership, it will do the same one day for President Trump, for stopping a group of Islamic jihadist fanatics from acquiring the world's deadliest weapons.

American Christians must confront a question: Where have our pastors been? The great failure of the American evangelical church is the reluctance of many pastors to address the moral and spiritual implications of political issues. Sunday after Sunday, congregations hear sermons about personal relationships, forgiveness, generosity, and platitudes about Christian living. Those subjects are important. But where are the sermons condemning abortion, supporting the sanctity of human life, religious liberty, constitutional government, and the moral foundations upon which a free society depends?

There is no better way to ostracize than the BDS movement's attempt at crippling Israel's economy and isolating Jewish businesses and organizations, not to mention those who support them. Israel's enemies are very creative, even though they are also very specific in what they chose to boycott out of convenience. This attempt at separation included a protest bike ride in Philadelphia to boycott Jewish eateries around town. Incidentally, in an unexpected show of support, the places intended for boycott got very long lines outside for food. Regardless, the choice of date, being a day before the remembrance of Kristallnacht, was a slap in the face of history. The modern BDS movement was only born in 2005, but it has done a lot of damage and continues to inflict further ostracism on Israel and Diaspora Jews economically, politically, culturally, and academically, albeit very hypocritically.

The persecution and oppression of our brothers and sisters in Christ around the world is getting worse, according to a report from Aid to the Church in Need UK. This report on the persecuted church found the “oppression of Christians has worsened in 55% of countries . . . without any country showing an improvement.” According to the report, which looked at persecution between August 2024 and June 2026, Christians “are being forced from their homes through conflict, extremism, and religiously motivated violence in 18 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.” This means 220 million Christians are “directly exposed to persecution worldwide.”

The “blame the Jews” sentiment is epidemic as she becomes the world’s burdensome stone (Zech. 12:3). And ironically, this anti-Jew sentiment was ignited right after Israel was attacked on October 7, 2023. She was the victim, but the world had sympathy for the devil—Hamas and other outfits that hate the Jews. In early September of this year, a plane from Dubai to Tel Aviv was taken over by a terrorist. Only a miracle from God stopped the intended carnage; however, it took only one hour for social media to declare the insanity that Israel was behind this.

Less than three days after the 2026 midterms delivered a historic Democratic sweep—control of both chambers of Congress and deep gains even in longtime red territory like Texas—segments of the left moved swiftly from victory laps to something darker: They began openly celebrating death. Not in the abstract language of “reproductive freedom,” but in explicit, gleeful detail. Among them: “Pregnant tonight, abortion in the morning before my Starbucks run”; “Who needs a ride to the abortion clinic?!”; and “…Whether you’re pregnant or not, we killing something [sic].”

I’m sure some critics of the church would say, “Focus on evangelism and stay out of politics.” Well, consider the second part of what Jesus said, the Cultural Commission: “Teach them to observe all things that I have commanded you.” The truth of God and obedience to it is not just a private matter. Followers of Jesus, equipped and encouraged by pastors, need to share their faith and live it out in a way that impacts the world around them, including government.

"President Trump has a narrow window of a few weeks after the midterm elections to launch a renewed war on Iran before a new Congress is likely to rein in his war powers," The Post detailed. "While Trump is pushing renewed negotiations with Iran, he has warned that he would 'finish the job' in Iran if the Islamic Republic fails to submit to his demands." The midterm election results mean that the President has until January before facing major resistance from Congress, the New York Post stated. “There is a 6-8 week window for freedom of action to continue the war in Iran,” Jonathan Schanzer, executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told The Post.

“This was an extraordinarily grave situation. A group of nurses, and members of the public, were threatened with murder at its named workplace, the correspondence included an image of a large knife, and the threat appears to have been motivated by hostility towards the women’s legally protected and vindicated position. As Christians, we believe that every person is made in the image of God and that we should treat one another with dignity, respect and compassion. We must not be intimidated into silence when truth and justice are at stake.”

In Australia, the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion will deliver its Final Report on 18 December 2026. However, on 30 October 2026, Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal AO, released an updated roadmap for combating antisemitism, which contains a number of urgent proposals. Although it is designed to build on the plan the Australian Government adopted after the Bondi Beach terror attack, not all are happy with the proposals, particularly when it comes to the issue of Palestine and the left’s unrelenting criticism of Zionism.

“He’s an actual heretic,” said Josh Howerton, senior pastor of Lakepointe Church in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. “A Biblically defined false teacher and heretic.” Politicians have long twisted Scripture to fit their narratives, Howerton noted. What sets Talarico apart, he said, is that “his whole platform is using the Bible to convince Christians to support godless things.” Howerton warned that what progressive so-called Christians like Talarico do is “hollow out your religion and wear it like a skinsuit.”

Tucker Carlson is preparing to publish a book titled "Peace Is The Only Final Solution For Jews," with his own publishing company releasing the controversial work. Carlson is personally writing its foreword. Who could imagine playing off the term "the final solution for the Jews," just for likes, clicks, and sales? This is a new level of depravity. Kristallnacht is back! Almost 88 years after that terrible day in November of 1938, when Jewish businesses were destroyed in Germany, anti-Israel activists in Philadelphia relived it. They rode through the city’s most fashionable neighborhood on Sunday, November 8, to mark six Jewish-owned businesses for removal. Their flier stated, “No business for Zionists. These Zionist establishments must go.” Can we all agree that it's 1938 again?

It was an attempted show of force, meant to intimidate Jews… in the year 2026… in America. If you're thinking this sounds more like something out of Nazi Germany, consider the timing. The protest was held just one day before the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the infamous 1938 pogrom that saw Nazi thugs rampage through the streets and attack Jewish-owned businesses in Germany and Austria. The organizers of this Philly hate fest were well aware of the message they were sending, just like the Nazis on Kristallnacht: “Jews are not welcome.” But a funny thing happened on the way to the Philly pogrom… Counter-protesters showed up.

We live in a time when truth is treated as personal and changeable. People speak of “my truth” and “your truth,” as if reality can be rewritten according to individual feelings or cultural preferences. Yet truth is not ours to invent. Truth originates with God, is revealed in His Word, and is perfectly embodied in Jesus Christ. Jesus did not say that He merely knew or taught the truth. He declared, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). For the Christian, standing in truth ultimately means standing with Christ. Truth remains true whether it is popular, politically convenient, or affirmed by the majority. Cultures change, public opinion shifts, and ideas once considered unthinkable can become celebrated in a surprisingly short period of time. But the character of God does not change, and neither does His Word.