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Nigeria Evicts 40,000 from Floating Slum
12+ hour, 17+ min ago (1220+ words) Residents evacuate in a boat following forceful eviction and demolition of homes in the Makoko slum in Nigeria. Every Saturday morning, Joshua Idowu, 37, picks up his soccer cleats and a whistle and leaves his home in Makoko, a century-old fishing…...
Cuba Lacks Fuel, Food, and Power. Christians Provide a Lifeline.
12+ hour, 17+ min ago (1607+ words) Members of the Iglesia Hermanos en Cristo Faro de Luz unloading supplies that will be distributed to people in the church and the community. Forty-year-old Mois's P'rez Padr'n, who has lived in Cuba his whole life, says he's never seen…...
Christians in Southern Lebanon Debate Staying or Leaving
12+ hour, 17+ min ago (1767+ words) Smoke from an explosion due to Israeli bombardment rises in the hills of Rmeich in southern Lebanon. Last Monday night, Micheline Nahra lay awake listening to the familiar sound of gunfire and explosions as the latest war between Hezbollah and…...
Why I Changed My Mind on Bible Prophecy and Politics
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (655+ words) Prosperity gospel preacher John Hagee is still here, arguing from his pulpit that the Iran war is the prompt the Bible predicted for the end times, just as he was doing almost a quarter century ago with the Iraq War....
You Don’t Need a Decoder Ring Each Time You Suffer
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (483+ words) Saying God has a purpose for suffering neither negates divine sovereignty nor means the point of suffering is a lesson. A believer's suffering is not meaningless. This is different from saying God has directly caused the suffering, thinks it's good,…...
We Should Demand More from MAHA
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (303+ words) Unfortunately, RFK Jr. and the institutional MAHA movement have little to show after a year at the helm. They've goaded individual manufacturers into taking artificial dyes out of certain products'at best a symbolic victory and at worst, in the words…...
Hope for Freedom for Iran, but Expect a Mess for America
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (838+ words) Smoke rises from a strike on Tehran on March 3, 2026. That slide was slower than many anticipated, but two decades later, the United States is at war with Iran. Anyone of good conscience must hope it all works out for the…...
C.S. Lewis on the 'Solemn Fun' of Nearing the End
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (296+ words) On facing a possibly terminal illness TO MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE, JUNE 17, 1963 Remember, tho" we struggle against things because we are afraid of them, it is often the other way round'we get afraid because we struggle. Are you struggling, resisting? Don…...
A More Literal View of ‘the Body of Christ’
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (850+ words) All this is true. And nearly all of it is also very thin. It is thin the way a postcard of the Grand Canyon is thin'accurate enough, as far as it goes, but what it leaves out is the depth,…...
Joy Is in the Waiting
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (639+ words) How long till we get to the beach, Mommy?" We were about seven minutes from our driveway the first time Henry asked. He'was four years old, and the two of us were headed from our home in the foothills of…...