2+ hour, 9+ min ago (932+ words) What if the same sin is being committed again " this time in laboratories funded by billionaires? Glenn Beck interviews Timothy Alberino. Genesis 6 remains one of the most debated and controversial sections of the Bible. The extreme brevity yet massive implications of the description of the Nephilim " the wicked offspring of "the daughters of man" and "the sons of God" " have kept scholars locked in debate for well over two millennia. There are three main bodies of belief when it comes to the Nephilim: They were wicked humans spawned from the intermarriage of the godly line of Seth and the ungodly line of Cain; they were human tyrants born of kings claiming to be divine and their harems; or they were giant human-god hybrids created from the coupling of fallen angels and human women. Timothy Alberino " "explorer, teacher, real-life Indiana Jones,…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago (668+ words) Both the pope and the patriarch emphasize the importance of Nicaea and Christian unity moving forward. Pope Leo XIV joined Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople and other Eastern Orthodox bishops on Friday at the site in modern-day Turkey where their predecessors met 17 centuries earlier to affirm and codify the core tenets of the Christian faith. This meeting of leaders on either side of the Great Schism at the place of the Nicene Creed's adoption signals another major step in what the pope weeks ago called "the path towards the reestablishment of full communion among all Christians." 'We return to this wellspring of the Christian faith in order to move forward.' The pope made reference to the lasting significance of the Council of Nicaea in his Friday address at the archeological site of the ancient Basilica of St. Neophytos on…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago (532+ words) One man's story of gaining faith by losing control. What followed was my arrest for a crime I never committed, solitary confinement in what I can only describe as an icy dungeon, and a battle through a politically driven legal system determined to crush everything Sharon and I had built together. There are moments in life when everything you thought defined you simply ceases to exist. For me, that moment came in a Virginia supermax solitary confinement cell, lying on cold concrete after being struck in the spine by a guard, unable to draw a full breath, watching uniformed backs disappear through a steel door that slammed with finality. In that cell, I had no pride, no dignity, no vanity, no vitality, no ambition, no joy, no self-respect, no ego, no hope. I was reduced to what I can only…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago (532+ words) One man's story of gaining faith by losing control. What followed was my arrest for a crime I never committed, solitary confinement in what I can only describe as an icy dungeon, and a battle through a politically driven legal system determined to crush everything Sharon and I had built together. There are moments in life when everything you thought defined you simply ceases to exist. For me, that moment came in a Virginia supermax solitary confinement cell, lying on cold concrete after being struck in the spine by a guard, unable to draw a full breath, watching uniformed backs disappear through a steel door that slammed with finality. In that cell, I had no pride, no dignity, no vanity, no vitality, no ambition, no joy, no self-respect, no ego, no hope. I was reduced to what I can only…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago (376+ words) Europe is becoming an increasingly dangerous place for Christians seeking to practice their faith. Christians are brutally persecuted the world over. According to the watchdog group Open Doors, over 380 million Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith, and over 4,476 were killed for their faith in 2024 alone. While the top 10 worst countries for Christians are all in Africa, Asia, and the Indian subcontinent " Nigeria, for instance, saw over 300 Christian schoolchildren abducted during a raid by bandits on Friday " Christians are also subjected to violent attacks, discrimination, and state suppression in supposedly civilized Western nations. '15 incidents featured satanic symbols or references.' The U.S. and Canada have together, for instance, seen thousands of acts of hostility against churches in recent years. The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe, a Vienna-based watchdog group, recently revealed that violent attacks…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago (376+ words) Europe is becoming an increasingly dangerous place for Christians seeking to practice their faith. Christians are brutally persecuted the world over. According to the watchdog group Open Doors, over 380 million Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith, and over 4,476 were killed for their faith in 2024 alone. While the top 10 worst countries for Christians are all in Africa, Asia, and the Indian subcontinent " Nigeria, for instance, saw over 300 Christian schoolchildren abducted during a raid by bandits on Friday " Christians are also subjected to violent attacks, discrimination, and state suppression in supposedly civilized Western nations. '15 incidents featured satanic symbols or references.' The U.S. and Canada have together, for instance, seen thousands of acts of hostility against churches in recent years. The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe, a Vienna-based watchdog group, recently revealed that violent attacks…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago (853+ words) George Washington and John Adams saw public gratitude to God as essential. Today, faith retreats from public life and the nation weakens. Thanksgiving is a call to reverse the trend. There was a time when Thanksgiving pointed toward something higher than stampedes for electronics or a long weekend of football. At its root, Thanksgiving was a public reminder that faith, family, and country are inseparable " and that a free people must recognize the source of their blessings. Long before Congress fixed the holiday to the end of November, colonies and early states observed floating days of thanksgiving, prayer, and fasting. These were civic acts as much as religious ones: moments when communities asked God to protect them from calamity and guide their families and their nation. The Continental Congress issued the first national Thanksgiving proclamation in 1777, drafted by Samuel Adams....

2+ day, 21+ hour ago (523+ words) Steve Deace interviews ex-occultist turned Christian minister Colin Samul on the demonic ties binding UFOs to ancient black magic. Extraterrestrial life boils down to three possibilities: pure myth, flesh-and-blood invaders from the stars, or spiritual entities slipping through cosmic rifts to toy with our souls. There's a growing body of belief in the latter " that UFOs and aliens are actually demonic entities masquerading as extraterrestrials in order to deceive humanity. "The spirit world that we see in scripture that interpenetrates with this realm fits exactly with what we observe in the [UFO/alien] phenomenon," he said. But long before he was a Christian and knew scripture well enough to make this claim, it was already clear to Samul that aliens and UFOs were spiritual in nature. As someone who was deep into New Age rituals, Eastern mysticism, and psychedelic experimentation,…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago (599+ words) Allie Beth Stuckey interviews Judd Saul on the genocide of Nigerian Christians at the hands of militant Muslim groups. While the mainstream media consistently denies or downplays the genocide of Christians in Nigeria, Judd Saul, founder and director of Equipping the Persecuted, who consistently does mission work in the country, assures us that Christians and churches are being wiped out by militant Islamic groups while the Nigerian government turns a blind eye. On a recent episode of "Relatable" with Allie Beth Stuckey, Saul unveiled the gut-wrenching reality of what is really happening to our Christian brothers and sisters in Nigeria. "What's happening right now is a real-life systematic jihad against Christians perpetrated by radical Islamists from the north," he says. The Fulani, Saul says, practice the same kind of radical Islam as Isis and al-Qaeda that demands death to any…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago (1450+ words) Our first visit to a Kingdom Hall. After attending a somewhat run-of-the-mill novus ordo Mass with only a few redeeming qualities, my husband and I decided to visit another church in Nevada that is possibly one of the most hated and misunderstood Christian denominations " even with the Latter-day Saints and Seventh-day Adventists. It was both his and my first time attending a Jehovah's Witness church. We walked 40-some minutes to the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses and were greeted warmly, even though we were two minutes late and the congregation had already begun singing the first hymn. The setting might have been bland, but I felt I had achieved a bucket-list goal. For years I'd tried to visit a Kingdom Hall. The Jehovah's Witnesses were one of the last churches to reopen nationwide after COVID, offering online meetings for nearly…...