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  • When foster care ends, the Church shouldn’t walk away

    When foster care ends, the Church shouldn’t walk away

    More than 20,000 foster youth age out of the system every year — often with no family, no safety net and no one showing up. But one thing can change everything: a caring adult who refuses to leave.

  • Twice, they offered to end my son's life

    Twice, they offered to end my son's life

    "I want you to be aware of all your options, including termination." Twice, a genetic counselor said those words to me and my wife. This is the story of what came next.

  • The England I knew is gone

    The England I knew is gone

    Growing up in 1970s and '80s England, I absorbed the importance of restraint, honesty, and respect for others. This summer, for the first time, I sensed that the present can be as foreign as the past.

  • Lindsay Clancy trial: Insanity defense isn't a loophole but justice

    Lindsay Clancy trial: Insanity defense isn't a loophole but justice

    There is no dispute Lindsay Clancy killed her children. The question is whether she's a murderer — or a woman failed by an untreated mind.

  • When vulgarity becomes ordinary: What the F-word says about us

    When vulgarity becomes ordinary: What the F-word says about us

    It used to be unspeakable. Now it's everywhere — in movies, at work, even in casual conversation. What happened to the F-word, and what does its rise say about us?

  • What we can learn from Gaza’s Christians

    What we can learn from Gaza’s Christians

    Excerpt Options (1–2 sentences, for article previews/social sharing): "They didn't grasp that we were Gazans just like them," one Christian from Gaza recalls. "For them, we're merely guests." His testimony traces how radicalization moves from mosque sermons into classrooms — and why it's driving one of the region's oldest Christian communities to near-extinction.

  • Where was the Garden of Eden?

    Where was the Garden of Eden?

    "The garden of Eden is one of the best-known places in the Bible, yet its location remains a mystery." Genesis names four rivers—but only two, the Tigris and Euphrates, are still identifiable today.

  • Is ChatGPT making us lonelier than ever?

    Is ChatGPT making us lonelier than ever?

    Why endure the trouble of asking my neighbor for a hammer if I can order one from Amazon? A look at how convenience has quietly hollowed out community — and why church, not ChatGPT, is the way back.

  • Putin's war on Ukraine isn't just territorial. It's spiritual

    Putin's war on Ukraine isn't just territorial. It's spiritual

    Russian tanks and missiles get the headlines, but behind them is something less visible and no less consequential: an ideology that seeks to erase Ukrainian identity itself — its churches, its clergy, and its children.

  • Day after Suicide Prevention Day, Britain votes to legalize it

    Day after Suicide Prevention Day, Britain votes to legalize it

    In just a week, Parliament will revisit an assisted suicide bill that lost ground the more scrutiny it received — and advocates are turning to a maneuver used only seven times in a century to push it through anyway.

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