Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer.—Psalm 4:1Thoughts on Today's Verse...At first, this cry for help seems very demanding. However, closer inspection shows that this is really the cry of desperation. Have you been there? I surely […]

A typical Holy Week is out of reach this year. That's cause for lament—and celebration. A pastor friend lamented this week, “All our Easter plans are shot. We are gutted—our entire vision and hard work are down the drain!” Another colleague said to me that he openly wept on a staff Zoom call when he […]

Anxiety is not the enemy of faith but a passageway on the road to it. Today’s musical pairing is “Spiegel im Spiegel” by Arvo Pärt. Note that all the songs for this series have been gathered into a Spotify playlist here. “The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is […]

Steve Green announces 11,500 more items will be returned to the Middle East. Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby and chairman of the Museum of the Bible, is returning 11,500 antiquities to the Iraqi and Egyptian governments. The ancient clay seals and fragments of papyrus do not have complete documentation and may have been looted […]

Information took too long to filter into the insular ultra-Orthodox world, and some key rabbis didn't grasp the pandemic danger. Now Israel braces for the consequences of the delay

Founder of Columbia University's National Center for Disaster Preparedness, mayoral adviser Dr. Irwin Redlener charges US president with massive delay in testing, mixed messages

'We don't want hostility, but if they are hostile to us, they're going to regret it like they've never regretted anything before,' US president says

A county in central China has reportedly gone into a mid-sized lockdown amid fears of a second coronavirus wave as Beijing is trying to emerge from the deadly outbreak and revive its economy. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ordering all citizens to wear masks while out in public space amid the coronavirus pandemic.

As coronavirus cases have jumped in recent days, China is misleading the world by purposely underreporting its numbers of patients and deaths, three U.S. intelligence officials say.