The comments from committed gamers were, not surprisingly, dismissive, and many accused the government of ruining everyone’s fun. But one US company decided it was all too difficult to keep the doors open on the scheduled release day and has decided to observe a “temporary company-wide operational pause,” citing “multiple employee scheduling conflicts” from this “unprecedented cultural event.”
The comments from committed gamers were, not surprisingly, dismissive, and many accused the government of ruining everyone’s fun. But one US company decided it was all too difficult to keep the doors open on the scheduled release day and has decided to observe a “temporary company-wide operational pause,” citing “multiple employee scheduling conflicts” from this “unprecedented cultural event.”
The comments from committed gamers were, not surprisingly, dismissive, and many accused the government of ruining everyone’s fun. But one US company decided it was all too difficult to keep the doors open on the scheduled release day and has decided to observe a “temporary company-wide operational pause,” citing “multiple employee scheduling conflicts” from this “unprecedented cultural event.”
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.
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?
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.”
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].”
“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.”
“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.”
As believers woke up this morning to the sweeping blue wave of the 2026 midterm results—two states enshrined abortion access in their constitutions, a first Muslim U.S. senator incorporated Arabic phrases of praise into his victory address, and a seminary graduate who affirms LGBT ideology, supports abortion and rejects the exclusivity of Christ for salvation won a Texas Senate seat—they are left wondering: What now? Where’s the hope? Even experts who have spent years on the front lines of the culture’s most pressing battles found the scale of the Nov. 3 results surprising. Not because a leftward shift was unthinkable, but because its depth exceeded anything seen in roughly two decades.
The Bible tells us that our ultimate problem is a spiritual problem—it’s sin! It’s a heart issue. We’re all sinners in rebellion against God, and sin nature is ultimately at the root of all of our problems. Crime, immorality, corruption, greed, poverty, disease—all of these exist because of our sin and the fallen state of creation.
Because our ultimate problem is sin, politics will never ultimately solve our problems. Now, don’t misunderstand me: politics matter, certainly, and we want politicians who have a biblical worldview and will make decisions based on the truths of Scripture. But even a “best-case scenario” with politics won’t ultimately save anyone—even if it makes a difference in this life.
With the 2026 midterm elections just days away, millions of Americans are preparing to cast their ballots in an election that will have significant implications for the nation’s future. With control of Congress hanging in the balance, voters will help determine the legislative agenda and political trajectory of the next two years. For Christians, the election raises questions that go beyond political parties, candidates, and policy preferences. Is voting merely a civic privilege, or does Scripture provide a theological framework for understanding it as an act of stewardship and love of neighbor? And what role should pastors and churches play in equipping believers to exercise this responsibility faithfully? As Americans prepare to head to the polls next Tuesday, these questions invite us to consider a more fundamental issue: whether Christians have a Biblical responsibility to participate in the political process.
Sadly, the abortion industry continues to either deny the level of pain inflicted upon the preborn or bury the evidence by introducing “expert” reports that contain deliberately vague language which seeks to assure mothers that abortion does not cross any moral barriers. Although a consensus on the impact of pain on the preborn would be a positive step in educating the public, the reality is that pain tolerance does not excuse the injustice perpetrated in abortion clinics.
Would you give your pastor a standing ovation if he and his wife introduced a second wife to the congregation? I certainly hope not! But that’s apparently what happened recently at a church in Cleveland, Ohio. According to reports and a video that’s been making the rounds on social media, the pastor of LifeWorks Church—referred to as a “prophet”—and his wife (also identified as a pastor) recently introduced a member of their congregation, a woman called a “minister,” as “the prophet’s wife” and the first wife’s “sister in marriage.” Apparently, the “prophet” has been married to this second wife (they referred to it as a polygynous marriage) for three years. And when she was introduced, the congregation (many of those seen in the video at least) stood, cheered, and applauded!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While antisemitism was the focus of much of the testimony at the NACIQI meeting, Wright and Hartz said that “the rot goes far deeper” than this bias: "A substantial part of organized psychology has ceased behaving like scientific and professional bodies and has become a vehicle for left-wing political activism... By our count, about 70 of the conference’s 90 panels had a clear ideological agenda, and every overtly political speaker came from the left."
Every election is about more than which party wins or who occupies an office. It’s about the principles that will shape our laws, protect our freedoms, and influence the lives of our children and grandchildren. When we stay home, we don’t stop those decisions from being made. We simply leave them to someone else. So ask yourself: if people who share your convictions remain silent, whose values will shape America’s future? We cannot demand responsible government while neglecting our responsibility as citizens.
In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” that aired last weekend, reporter Tracy Smith asked Crystal about what he’s gone through. Though thankful to have come through suffering with many parts of his life still intact, he added, “But it doesn’t take away the hurt. It doesn’t take away the loss.” It’s in suffering and tragedies that many people turn to God, so Smith asked, “Have you been talking to God?” Crystal answered, “No—’cause I don’t trust Him. Too many bad things have happened. The earth is in bad shape. This is a weird, scary time. So, no, not any more.”
Anybody who understands the social pulse of Australia knows that the State of Victoria is the most socially progressive of Australia’s states and territories. Although many Victorians see that as positive, when it means the introduction of laws that directly oppose God’s principles governing life, believers see it as wicked. In a 15 October 2026 X post, Mr Carroll succinctly stated: “Abortion is healthcare. Your bank account and your postcode shouldn’t be a barrier. We’ll fix that.” To avoid appearing one-sided in my criticism of Labor policies, I will point out that the opposition party (who have traditionally been fiscally and socially conservative) have indicated they will also pledge free abortions, much to the disappointment of supporters who have traditionally turned to them in order to act as a counterweight to the anti-God agenda of the Labor Party.
Indeed, some analysts — such as the Argentine Agustín Laje — have argued that Brazil is experiencing a “judicial dictatorship” orchestrated by officials close to Lula, including the notorious Judge Alexandre de Moraes. Undoubtedly, despite the pressures, the Bolsonaro family emerged as the big winner of the first round. God willing, Flávio will win the runoff — and with him, the Western values that Brazil so urgently needs to restore and greatly benefit hemispheric security following four years of leftist rule and the rise of drug trafficking and organized crime.
A Washington school district has agreed to stop imposing a policy that forced students to hide their Bibles in sealed envelopes. The district must also stop barring a Christian nonprofit from participating in certain school fairs. LifeWise Academy, a nonprofit which offers public school students voluntary Bible education during school hours, challenged the policies in a lawsuit with the help of First Liberty Institute. As part of the settlement, Everett School District must publicly apologize and pay $275,000 in attorney fees, as well as provide religious liberty training for school board members.
The largest student-led youth organization in U.S. agriculture barred the Fellowship of Christian Farmers International (FCFI) from participating in the 2026 National FFA Convention and Expo in Indianapolis later this month, solely for its religion. Christian legal organization Liberty Counsel filed a demand letter on FCFI’s behalf. The National Future Farmers of America (FFA) organization denied FCFI exhibit space, stating that FFA policy bars groups with “religious affiliations” from eligibility to exhibit. For decades prior to 2018, the FCFI, a non-profit Christian ministry that seeks to connect faith and agriculture, had been exhibiting at the FFA’s national expo. But around 2018, it was “disinvited” for not aligning with FFA’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” expected goals.
It is a turning point at which settled concepts suddenly become hazy, lose their precise contours, at which our familiar and commonly used words lose their meaning, become empty shells.” Less than 50 years later, Solzhenitsyn’s fears have been realized. Our society, including its language, is crumbling around us. The English language has been corrupted and changed to be a shadow of its former self. We must be on guard against this decay in language and work to make sure we are properly understanding the world (and words) around us.
A bill to protect parents from losing custody of a child to the state for simply affirming their dependent’s biological sex over trans-identifying preferences has been introduced to the U.S. House and Senate. Speaking on “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins,” Miller said: “It is urgently needed federal action to ensure that federal child welfare funds are not going to be used to punish parents across the country.”
“I’ve never been more proud of getting an F than having SIECUS rate Ohio an F on their sex education report card because SIECUS is quite possibly, one of the most nefarious groups working in education in America today." Baer described SIECUS as “the primary ideological drivers behind the hyper-sexualization of kids” and “the gender ideology that’s being forced on children” as well as “promoting pro-abortion ideology to kids.”
The greatest thing that you can do right now is to say, “Lord, here I am. Send me.” When you do that, expect Him to work in and through your life. From the moment you pray that prayer, be looking for an open door to speak up, to show up or to stand up. Most often in my own life, when I have prayed that prayer, God has not failed to present an opportunity that gets my attention. And when it does, I know He will fill my mouth with His truth to speak to that issue. It could be among my family, within the city council, a school board, our state capitol or even our nation. God has raised each of us to serve a particular purpose that will glorify Him, and I encourage you today to determine to be a person who seeks to fulfill that purpose.
“If our national education system continues to claim to foster inclusion and tolerance, this must include tolerance of perspectives with which others disagree. In a free and just society, teachers should not be fired for honestly expressing their deeply-held beliefs in response to questions in the classroom. What happened to me is nothing short of censorship, and this precedent cannot be allowed to stand.”
A city council meeting in Iowa took a dark turn earlier this week when a former member opened the meeting by praising Satan in his invocation. One-time Ottumwa City Council member Matt Dalbey began the meeting by praying to the “dark father” to “embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat from the tree of knowledge” before concluding his prayer with “Hail Satan.” But New Life Center Pastor Rick Bick did not go along to get along. As soon as the council concluded their recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance following the demonic prayer, Bick interrupted the meeting by demanding that Dalbey’s evil prayer be renounced.
“What I think the state is doing is it’s trying to intimidate churches into following through with this,” he lamented. “They should not be receiving any kind of ideological training from the state on any moral issue. That’s why what churches need to be doing is asking for religious accommodations. The federal law and the state law already require businesses to accommodate people’s faith if they’re being required to do something that violates their faith. … [T]his is one of those points in history here in California where civil disobedience is going to be necessary.”