Imagine sitting in your living room watching television when a commercial appears for one of America's most recognizable restaurant chains. You expect to see burritos, tacos, or perhaps a new menu item. Instead, you see a Ouija board. A tortilla chip becomes the pointer, and the commercial invites viewers into a supernatural-themed experience. What does communicating with spirits have to do with selling Mexican food? Apparently, in today's advertising culture, there is more than we might expect.

Jesus called His followers the salt of the earth and the light of the world. Neither image suggests withdrawal. Both describe engagement that makes a difference. So the issue is not whether the church should become political. It is whether Christians will remain biblical when biblical truth has political consequences. Our calling is neither to become the mouthpiece of a party nor to retreat into silence. It is to stand on God’s word, defend what is right, confront what is wrong, and speak with courage — even when the culture would rather we remain silent.

Ten years ago, even five years ago, it would have been practically unimaginable to see people like Abdul El-Sayed and Adam Hamawi have legitimate shots of winning seats in Congress. But here we are, just days before the midterm elections on November 3rd. Both El-Sayed and Hamawi have ties to radical Islam that should disqualify them from ever running for office in the United States. Yet El-Sayed is neck and neck with Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan in the battle for a U.S. Senate seat, and Hamawi, a Democrat, is favored to win in New Jersey's 12th congressional district.

Since the Jewish people were scattered in AD 70, no Gentile country has embraced the spirit of blessing the Jewish people (Gen. 12:1–3) like America has. Indeed, America has been blessed by and acted as a blessing to the Jewish people. Yet, today that reciprocal blessing is under threat due to the rise of antisemitism. As a whole, members of Generation Z (those born between 1997 and 2012), including Christians, are less supportive of Israel and the Jewish people. Gazing through God’s prophetic telescope, we see a day coming when all the nations of the world—even America—will gather against Israel (Zech. 12:3). But we don’t know when.

Mike Johnson, the Republican Party’s once-unassuming consolation prize, hit his three-year anniversary as speaker of the House on Sunday while he was crisscrossing the country to save the majority that no one expected him to be leading this long — or this well. Now, with just a handful of days until the nation decides which party they trust to hold that gavel, Washington’s rumor mill is churning with speculation about what comes next for the likeable Louisiana dad. But frankly, there should be no speculation. Regardless of the GOP’s fate next week, there’s only one man Republicans should entertain as leader: the current one.

Ever since Christians first attempted to harmonize Scripture with the concept of millions of years, they have been straying further and further from a literal meaning of Genesis until they have abandoned it altogether. Christianity fails a fundamental test of naturalistic science. Miracles, such as Christ’s Virgin Birth and Resurrection, do not mesh with modern scientific beliefs, which require truth to be “testable and repeatable.” This conflict does not deter Christians, however, who trust their eternal destiny to these historical facts that are revealed in Scripture, even if they aren’t repeated today. Yet many of those same Christians reject the straightforward, historical reading of the Genesis creation account simply because they believe it cannot be verified by science.

Leaders of the Afghanistan Bible Society blazed new ground Oct. 24 by helping launch satellite Christian television and online programming into a country where owning a Bible and publicly worshipping Jesus Christ are forbidden. Mozhda TV is the first exclusively Christian channel broadcast into Afghanistan, where the authoritarian Taliban took control in 2021 and instituted strict Sharia law, destroying public displays of Christianity, banning Bibles and barring women and girls from access to education. Christians in the Muslim-majority nation live under constant threat of being discovered and reported.

It's that season again, and unless people prepare for it by putting on the armor of God, they can be dragged down emotionally and spiritually by legions of skeletons, witches, ghosts, and assorted dark images. Halloween is rapidly garnishing the second-largest holiday response in the world—and the emphasis this time of year seems to be death, not life. Witchcraft, tarot, paganism, and occult spirituality have moved out of the shadows and into the mainstream. Social media is filled with paranormal and new age activity. Online marketplaces sell spells and curses. Online searches for learning astrology increased almost 800% in the last year. Searches for tarot leaped to almost 600%.

You may have seen cars with bumper stickers on them with the word COEXIST. There is a subtle though clear message tucked away behind this single word. The message is that religion is the problem behind many or even all of the world’s problems. We’re told that if religious groups could just “celebrate the common ground” between them and tolerate their differences, the world would be a better place. Sadly, the T in COEXIST is in the form of the cross, and thus Christianity is lumped together with some other religions represented by symbols that coincide with the other letters in the word. The Christian message of “love your enemies and do good to those who hate you” is lumped in with other religions, including one that has been known for religious extremism since its inception. While all religions have their extremists, Islam is more known for adherents that exhibit extremist behavior than other groups.

A conservative legal group has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Virginia pastor aimed at stopping a proposed state amendment that would redefine marriage in the Virginia Constitution. The Richmond-based Founding Freedoms Law Center filed the suit Oct. 22 in the circuit court of Prince William County on behalf of Ben Purves, pastor of community and member care at Occoquan Bible Church in Woodbridge, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., challenging the proposed Amendment 2 on procedural grounds. Purves and a group of fellow pastors are also calling on Virginians to fast and pray on Election Day.

France’s bloated welfare state, stagnant economy, and ideological hostility to assimilation have created enclaves of immigrants who, at best, do not feel they have any stake in French society; and at worst, are actively hostile to France and to Western civilization writ large. This has proven to be fertile ground for Islamists seeking to foment hostility to the French state, who have made common cause with the Left-wing radicals exacerbating these riots. And of course, the Islamists and antisemites who have deployed the atrocities of October 7 as a recruiting tool are using the so-called “protests” as an excuse for the premeditated destruction of synagogues and Jewish businesses.

In just a few days, voters across America will head to the polls for what I believe is a critical moment in our nation’s history—a moment that I never believed would be possible in our great and storied republic. In a number of states and cities, from coast to coast, ballots will be cast for candidates who are proudly running on a radical political platform that praises and embraces the bankrupt ideology of socialism. I don’t know about you, but I never thought the day would come when a socialist would not only be on the ballot, but would actually stand a good chance of winning an election.

General Michael Flynn (Ret.), Trump’s first national security advisor, also suggested fraud was at work, pointing to a graph showing a massive surge in votes for Lula right at the end to push him over the finish line. Flynn quoted a friend on the ground saying, “This is a massive scandal in Brazil and goes to show that the country is nothing more than a banana republic.” Virginia Tuckey, Chair of Republicans Overseas Argentina, warned about the implications for Latin America and called for U.S. policymakers to take action. “Brazil is heading toward replacing Cuba and Venezuela as the nerve center of communism and international crime in Latin America,” she said in a statement.

Although the name Ali Shariati would not be familiar to most people, he was in many ways the ideological architect of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. Shariati was born in Iran but studied in Paris during the 1960s. It was during this time in a Western institution that Shariati developed a new theoretical approach to the combination of Marxism, existentialism (the philosophical belief we are each responsible for creating purpose or meaning in our own lives) and Islam. Though he did not live to see the 1979 Revolution (he died in 1977), his writings mobilized a generation of revolutionaries.

Our world has become the opposite of what it used to be. The moral and character flaws that are listed in Romans 1:28-32 have always been part of life in a fallen world, but there has long been a clearly defined line between good and evil. Even during the periods of history when evil seemed to be dominant and tyrants were brutal in their rule, people knew the difference between right and wrong, and good and evil. Good was still good, and evil was still evil. Yet Paul says in Romans 1 that when a nation (or the world) rejects God’s existence and authority, a moral perversion will spread and lead to a time when the moral and character flaws in Romans 1:28-32 will become dominant.

The final showdown with Iran's regime may be imminent. The United States and Israel are reportedly considering new strikes against Iran's regime after the U.S. midterm elections, which will be held on November 3rd. Both nations have ramped up military drills in recent days, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was in Israel last week meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu. Both Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump have hinted in recent days that something decisive could be coming.

When I first began hearing about artificial intelligence (AI) years ago, I don’t think anyone could perceive its dangers. Clearly, it had end-time significance. Surely this would assist the Antichrist in his “buying and selling” scheme. But God gives intelligence. How does mankind create it? And the honest question is, would it be a blessing or a Frankenstein? How about both? A decade ago, I read the title to some articles that were stunning. One was, “Ex-Google Executive Anthony Levandowski is Founding a Church Where People Worship an Artificial Intelligence God.” Another story was headlined, “Why Humans Will Happily Follow an A.I. Robot Messiah.”

The group filed a referendum petition Sept. 2 with Secretary of State Bill Galvin and began seeking volunteers to encourage people to sign the petition. They needed to obtain 37,289 certified signatures by Oct. 23 in order to add the repeal to the 2028 ballot, and if they could obtain 49,716, the law could be suspended pending the result of the 2028 voting. The coalition announced this week that they had submitted 99,962 signatures to city and town clerks, well above the threshold to suspend the law. “The people of Massachusetts did not ask for abortion through all nine months, and in a matter of weeks they made that clear.”

The liberty to worship, pray, and proclaim the gospel is a privilege Americans have been entrusted to steward. Despite these freedoms, Christian voter participation is actively declining. Although involvement varies between presidential and midterm elections, research suggests that in recent years, approximately 4 in 10 Christians did not turn out to vote. In a nation where religious freedom is protected, civic stewardship remains an important responsibility. This includes exercising our faith, praying for our nation, and voting according to Christian values.