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Ukraine Peace Plan Ukrainian and American officials gathered in Switzerland yesterday to take a red pen to Uncle Sam’s new 28-point plan for ending the war with Russia. Here are some key points (read the full list): Territory: Russia controls the contested Donbas region (see a map in our...

“So walk ye in him.” Colossians 2:6 If we have received Christ himself in our inmost hearts, our new life will manifest its intimate acquaintance with him by a walk of faith in him. Walking implies action. Our religion is not to be confined to our closet; we must carry out into practical...

“The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?” Mark 14:14 Jerusalem at the time of the passover was one great inn; each householder had invited his own friends, but no one had invited the Savior, and he had no dwelling of his own. It was by his...

For Unto Us A Child Is Born... To Die Prophecy Fulfilled in the Person of Jesus of Nazareth ______________ Messiah would be sacrificed before the Temple was destroyed "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall...

A Meeting of Opposites President Trump and NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani are shakin’ hands in the Oval Office today. The pair will discuss key points of Mamdani’s campaign platform: public safety and affordability. Mamdani, who requested the meeting, said he wants to “speak plainly” about New...

Bezos is Back Jeff Bezos is getting back in the corner office. The tech billionaire is shifting from same-day delivery to semiconductors, becoming the co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a $6.2B startup focused on AI that supports engineering and manufacturing industries (think: cars, spaceships)...

Death Sentence Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death on Monday for violently suppressing student protests in 2024. The U.N. estimates that Bangladesh’s security forces killed up to 1,400 people and injured thousands during a three-week-long clash last...

What’s your gut reaction to a presidential pardon? Mine is a little bit of squeamishness. The acts of clemency that make the headlines (no matter who’s president) tend to feel faintly unjust—the offender didn’t face fair punishment, they got the pardon just because they’re famous, the...

Tariff Trim Cheaper guac and lattes may be on the way. President Trump signed an executive order Friday rolling back tariffs on over 200 imported food products—from avocados to coffee to beef—to combat high grocery prices. The admin says these goods aren’t produced in sufficient quantities...

Wartime Corruption Allegations Ukraine’s ministers for Energy and Justice resigned on Wednesday in the wake of corruption allegations. Ukraine’s anticorruption bureau publicized its investigation this week, accusing high-level officials of conspiring for $100M in kickbacks from companies...

Back in Business After nearly 43 days, the longest shutdown in government history is over. Wednesday, the House reconvened (with some Reps driving cross-country to avoid flight delays and make the vote) to pass a stopgap spending bill, turning Capitol Hill’s lights on through January. Hours...

Controversial Coverage The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is in hot tea over its January 6, 2021, documentary. The film, released last October, featured clips from Trump’s speech urging his supporters to protest the 2020 election results; but a recently leaked internal report...

Government Shutdown The government’s preppin’ to reopen its doors. The Senate approved a spending bill Monday to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history, sending it to the House for a midweek vote. White House officials urged speedy passage, and President Trump indicated he’ll Sharpie it...

The government shutdown got real for millions more Americans this week as food assistance funding ran dry for one in eight U.S. residents (read the latest update here and more background here). It’s been a stark reminder that all human institutions—broken as they are by sin—are an unreliable...

From the Bench SCOTUS’s November session went off with a bang SNAP. The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court’s order requiring the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP benefits, allowing the administration to continue with its plan of using contingency funds to cover 65% of...

Breakthrough Uncle Sam appears poised to reopen his doors. Last night, the Senate passed a bill to provide stopgap government funding through January and fully fund a few key areas, including: veterans affairs, military construction, the legislative branch, and the Department of Agriculture...

“His place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.” Isaiah 33:16 Do you doubt, O Christian, do you doubt as to whether God will fulfil his promise? Shall the munitions of rock be carried by storm? Shall the storehouses of heaven fail? Do...

Tariffs in the Balance Lady Justice has President Trump’s tariffs in her balance scale in one of the weightiest political-economic cases in decades. POTUS’s global taxes came before SCOTUS in a two-and-a-half-hour hearing Wednesday, and the noble nine seemed skeptical of the tariffs’ legal...

UPS Plane Crash A fiery plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, has left at least 13 people dead, 15 injured, and nine still unaccounted for. The UPS cargo plane was departing Muhammad Ali International Airport Tuesday evening, loaded with 38,000 gallons of fuel for its Honolulu-bound flight...

35 Days and Counting The government shutdown will officially be the longest on record, and Americans are feeling it. The food assistance ~42M people rely on is still delayed, but now halfway funded. The Department of Agriculture will empty a $4.65B contingency fund to cover lapsed...