ACLU: An American Citizen Was Detained for Four Days Because He Is Latino
Ramon Torres was pulled over in August of last year on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and was booked in the Ascension Parish Jail. He’s been a U.S. citizen for…
Should Christians Participate In Partisan Politics?
Politics is such a divisive topic and I’m not here to stir up strife, but it is time for followers of Jesus to examine our loyalties to political partisanship and…
Texas Has Executed Larry Swearingen, Who Maintained His Innocence to the End
On Wednesday night, the state of Texas executed Larry Swearingen for the 1998 murder of 19-year-old Melissa Trotter. To the very end, Swearingen maintained his innocence and claimed forensic science…
Snopes Is Fact-Checking the ‘Babylon Bee’ Because Apparently a Lot of People Think It’s Real
The fact-checking site Snopes is engaged in a dispute with the conservative satire site The Babylon Bee, which frequently lampoons Christian culture. Adam Ford, who founded (and later sold) The…
A Truck Barreled Through a Group of Jewish Activists Protesting ICE
On Wednesday night, a crowd of young Jewish activists in Rhode Island organized a protest of a local for-profit prison that works with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They were sitting…
Some Creepy Person With a TV on Their Head Is Leaving Old TVs on Doorsteps
Several doorbell cameras from homes in Henrico County, Virginia, have captured some baffling footage: A person with a TV on their head leaving an old TV on the doorstep. So…
Time-Lapse Photo Shows a Glacier Disappearing
NASA has released a time-lapse photo that shows the realities of climate change. Iceland’s Okjökull glacier was an iconic location, but in 2014 was declared “dead.” The clip below shows…
Jon Foreman on Mass Shootings: ‘This Is a Volcano That We Need to Face’
I awoke this morning with a heavy heart, still grieving from last week’s violence. My news feed might have moved on, but the towns of Dayton, El Paso, and Gilroy…
This ‘Jimmy Kimmel’ Bit Shows Just How Bad People Are at Geography
Jimmy Kimmel Live’s man-on-the-street bits are some of the funniest—and saddest—clips on TV. In his latest segment, called “Can You Name This Country”, people are shown a very large image…
Update: ICE Has Released Some Undocumented Parents So They Can Return to Their Children
Following the massive raids that swept Mississippi resulting in hundreds of detained undocumented workers, ICE has released a statement saying they’ve released 300 of the workers they detained on Wednesday’s…
Cyntoia Brown, Sentenced for Life for Killing Her Alleged Abuser, Is Released from Prison
In 2006, 16-year-old runaway Cyntoia Brown shot a 43-year-old real estate agent named Johnny Allen while the two were in bed. Brown told authorities that she was living with an…
Study: Americans Now Like Churches More Than Tech Companies
There’s been a major shift in how Americans view religious organizations and major tech companies. Pew recently released the findings of a new study that found that just 50 percent…
Archaeologists Believe They’ve Found the ‘Church of the Apostles’
After years of searching, archaeologists in Israel believe they have found the “Church of the Apostles.” Teams from the Kinneret Institute for Galilean Archaeology at Kinneret College in Israel and…
Beth Moore to Christian Leaders: Silence Is Complicity
Bible teacher, speaker and author Beth Moore took to Twitter this morning to speak out against this weekend’s mass shootings, particularly the one in El Paso that appears to have…
Christian Leaders React to Mass Shootings: We Can’t Keep Going on Like This
This weekend, at least 29 people were killed and dozens more were injured in two mass shootings: one in Dayton, Ohio, the other in El Paso Texas. Over the weekend,…