BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY:“When King David heard all this, he was furious. And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad;he hated Amnon because he had disgraced his sisterTamar.” (2 Samuel 13: 21) 　　When Bitterness Creeps In 　　By Dena Johnson Martin 　　The bitterness welled up inside me, almost crushing me. I wanted to lash out, to...

　　Hatred of Jews, Judaism, and Israel is hardly ​a ​new phenomenon. There is a reason the hatred of Jews is sometimes called the “oldest hatred.” 　　To the progressive, therefore, conservative or traditional hatred of Jews ​​needs little explanation.A conservative is a supporter of tradition, and hatred of Jews has a long history. You do the math. From the perspective of...

　　On Monday, September 30, 2024, Judge Amit Mehta of Washington, DC’s federal district court ruled thatGoogle exercises an unlawful monopoly of the market for general search engines(GSEs). GSEs aresoftware applications that allow users of web browsers(like Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Edge, Apple’s Safari, and Mozilla’s Firefox) to hunt for information on the web by entering keywords on their digital devices. 　　Judge...

　　Weekly Overview: 　　As children of God, we have been given a new home and a new hope. May your heart be set aflame by the joy and purpose of living out God’s command to live for heaven this week: “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right...

　　What to Remember When Your Life Feels Small 　　By Deidre Braley 　　Bible Reading 　　At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you...

　　Economics is about the unseen, in Frederic Bastiat’s famous framing. The unseen includes concepts such as opportunity cost and unintended consequences, and that’s the dimension in which economics adds value. 　　Journalists specialize in seeing things. Their job is to report, to observe, to notice. When they do that well, they add value. Because their professional training does not lend itself...

　　I thank Russell Greene for his rich, critical review of my recent book The Third Awokening (“Equal Rights, not Equity,” August 6). 　　Russell and I agree that woke cultural socialism, with its exclusive focus on achieving equal outcomes and psychological harm protection for minorities, reduces human flourishing in society. But a response pointing to where we agree is hardly going...

　　Can All Religions Be True? 　　“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” -John 14:6 　　A story is told about two men who lived in a small village and got into a terrible dispute that neither of them could resolve. So one night, the first man went to the...

　　Choosing Joy on the Hard Days 　　By: Maggie Meadows Cooper 　　Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord!-...

　　This—¯_(ツ)_/¯—is what comes to mind when people ask me to explain how Australia ran fourth in the Olympics yet also entered Raygun—the Paris Olympiad’s Eddie the Eagle or Eric the Eel—into an event. 　　The 2024 Olympics had two blokes win in women’s boxing, a US gymnast who got a medal taken off her, given to her, then swiped away again...

　　Sticking It Out through the Worst 　　By: Betsy St. Amant Haddox 　　He answered,“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but...

　　Weekly Overview: 　　As children of the Most High God, we have been granted access to unconditional, tangible, and perfect love. All we need we have in relationship with our Father in heaven. He longs to reveal himself to us as a loving, real Father. He longs for us to live in the fullness of restored relationship with him. He longs...