Outrage is building in some Christian circles—and it’s increasingly focused in one place: Israel. Videos circulate. Questions follow.“Have you seen Jews spitting on Christians?”“And we’re supposed to support Israel?” But something doesn’t add up in the moral...
Conspiracy theories and antisemitism fuel irrational beliefs worldwide
Everywhere we turn, antisemitism – the hatred and demonisation of Jewish people – is on the rise, and that rise is both meteoric and, quite literally, deadly.It is national and global, on the political left and right, among the religious and non-religious, and growing...
Biology and common sense triumph over radical transgender ideology
Two major events within the last week signal that, at last, the radical transgender house of cards is starting to fall, marking the triumph of biological reality and plain common sense. The first major event was a legal decision, where two million dollars in damages...
Jesus hijacked for politics
Many local New Yorkers and visiting tourists were rightly upset to see a massive billboard in Times Square proclaiming that, “Jesus is Palestinian. Merry Christmas.” Making matters even worse was another billboard containing a citation from the Quran (Surah Al-Imran...
The Truth About Christian Zionism
Is “Christian Zionism” an oxymoron? Worse still, is it a heresy? And whether it is an oxymoron or a heresy, is it a recent creation, dating back no earlier than the 19th century?Too good not to SHARE! Before we answer these questions, let’s first...
What the freed hostages can teach us
Can you imagine what it was like to be one of the hostages held by Hamas for more than two years? Can you imagine the fear, the sense of having no control, the humiliation, the deprivation? Can you imagine living underground day after day, month after month, cut off...
The Church is NOT Spiritual Israel
There is no caste system or class system in Jesus. In Him, Jew and Gentile are one just as male and female are one. Too good not to SHARE! As Paul wrote in terms of our salvation,"For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is...
Artificial intelligence and the Mind of God
Our grandson Connor made a very interesting comment when he was a little boy. His parents (our daughter and son-in-law) were praying for him when he was fighting some minor illness, asking God to heal him. When nothing immediately happened, he said: “Jesus doesn’t...
Donald Trump and the cultural revolution: a practical assessment
What are the cultural implications of Donald Trump’s decisive presidential victory?On the one hand, he incurred the ire of the pro-life movement by distancing himself from historic pro-life stances, gutting the GOP platform in the process. (He gutted the platform in...
Normal life in today’s Israel
Over the decades, 'normal life'in Israel has looked very different than normal life in most every other country in the rest of the world. Fight shadow bans & SHARE! This is because Israel has been surrounded by mortal enemies who want nothing...
Is the IDF committing terrorist acts against Hezbollah?
There is a Talmudic dictum that states, “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first” (b. Sanhedrin 72a).This is part of a discussion of the laws of self defence, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cited it with reference to the targeted...
Conservatives have more kids
A July 2021 headline in the Western Journal announced, “Birth Rates Are the Right’s Secret Weapon as Liberal Values Backfire.” The article by Miska Salemann stated: “Data from the General Social Survey indicates that in the 1970s ‘there was little or no difference in...
Our powerful spiritual weapons
As followers of Jesus, there are two extremes we must avoid when working for cultural reformation. One is that we are entirely spiritual in our approach, relying only on prayer, fasting, and preaching the gospel while neglecting the many practical, more “earthly”...
Germany: possessing kiddy porn no longer a crime
In an absolutely indefensible, morally reprehensible ruling, Germany has greatly reduced the legal consequences of child pornography. There is no universe in which such a ruling can be justified. The very thought of it is despicable. Fight shadow bans &...
When uni students SUDDENLY care deeply about “the current thing”
No, I don’t believe for a split second that suddenly, college students all over America really care about the plight of the Palestinians. I don’t believe this anymore than, a few years ago, people around the globe were suddenly concerned about the plight of Black...
Why Are (Young) Women So Woke?
Commenting on a Finland-based study published in the Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Oskari Lahtinen, the author of the study, said,“The gender divide was probably most surprising to me. Three out of five women view ‘woke’ ideas positively, but only...
America is in moral freefall
For many years now, it has been clear that America has been in a steep moral and spiritual decline, despite some genuine revival movements along with some holy pushback against the growing cultural insanity. But two recent examples confirm that we are now...
The smiling face of demonic evil
Less than three hours ago, I was sitting in the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, watching 47 minutes of footage from the Hamas massacre on October 7, together with a small group of specially invited evangelical leaders. The images,...
Sympathy for the Arabs in Gaza
It is true that a recent poll indicated that 75 percent of Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank supported the actions of Hamas on October 7. It is true that the people of Gaza chose to elect Hamas as their leaders in 2006. And it is true that an alarming...
Israel is ‘Always to Blame’
In the early 1990s, I attended a dinner in New York City sponsored by a Jerusalem foundation, highlighted by a dialogue between Henry Kissinger and Fouad Ajami, moderated by Dan Rather. (Ajami was a Lebanese-born university professor who often appeared as...
The pushback against transanity continues
Before speaking recently at an event at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, a pastor approached me and said that we had met 20 years ago when I spoke at a particular church in Virginia.Then he said, “You warned us back then about all the...
Are Religious Debates Fruitful?
For the last 40 years, I have engaged in scores of public debates on religious subjects, sometimes drawing passionate, standing room only crowds. But are the debates actually fruitful? Do they bring more heat than light? Do they really...
A Call for Clarity
Almost 20 years ago on CNN, Larry King hosted a discussion with some of the nation’s “most influential evangelical” leaders, spending a good portion of the show discussing gay issues. Some of the leaders answered King’s...
Must Stay Gay
The headline sounds like something created by a far-right website to make gay activists look bad, but it is absolutely true and totally accurate: “Ex-Gay Man Faces Charges for Sharing His Testimony About Finding Freedom in Christ.”Yes,...























