What would a conversation between Aretha Franklin and the Apostle Paul sound like? The question may seem random, as the two figures are so different.
As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organizations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes.
In February 2022, as Russian tanks rolled across the Ukrainian border, a small group of Russian Orthodox Christian clergy did something extraordinary. They published an open letter calling for peace and an immediate ceasefire. Within days, nearly 300 clergy had signed it — an unprecedented act of collective dissent in Putin’s Russia.
Christianity Today’s Marvin Olasky recently called the passage of Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” the “final burial of compassionate conservatism.”
The outbreak of measles in under-vaccinated communities has its beginnings in the conservative Mennonite community of Texas. In contrast to hesitancy today, these traditional and separated communities have had a close relationship to vaccines since the early 1800s.
