It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality...—1 Thessalonians 4:3Thoughts on Today's Verse...Sanctified surely does sound "churchy," doesn't it? It means to be special, reserved for God's use and glory, and not common. We are to be an uncommon people! This is especially true in steering clear of […]

Engaged Americans are grappling with foiled wedding plans. But Christian couples face unique moral challenges. Sophia Lee thought she’d be heading to the altar next month. She had the dress, the rings, and two plane tickets for a honeymoon in Eastern Europe. Instead, she and her fiancé, David Hermann, are in a holding pattern. The […]

When the biological appears diabolical Author Katherine Stewart let Christians have it last Friday, at the least the “ultraconservative” ones, the science-deniers, and the uncritical thinkers. Laying the blame for the pandemic in part at our feet, she cites as an example the pastor who hosted the president last month at his church in Miami. […]

Court finds Lighthouse Events used ministry funds to repay expensive short-term loans instead. A Christian concert promoter has been ordered to pay almost $5 million for misleading investors and misusing funds that were supposed to go toward events that “spread the message of Christ.” A United States federal court issued a summary judgment against Lighthouse […]

Flight, which according to some reports was longest in Israeli aviation history, carried some 280 passengers; crew of 19 included 8 pilots

Sources tell news agency that as pandemic rages, state actors use phishing techniques to try to gain access to personal accounts of staff

Episode #30: A month after the Israeli elections, there's still no coalition. David Halbfinger explains why * Jewish thinkers' thoughts on this special Passover

The French government announced it is converting part of the world's largest wholesale food market into a temporary morgue space as the coronavirus death toll surged to 5,387 on Thursday. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended many aspects of life as countries around the world try to fight the spread of the virus.

News that Chinese officials have ordered a county in central China back on lockdown has some questioning whether President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party took its coronavirus victory lap too soon and what that might mean for other countries using China's template.