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Can Noah Sink Darwin?

October 2nd, 2026

Researchers are drilling a boat-shaped formation in Turkey that some believe is Noah’s Ark. But even creationists disagree over the site, and millions have been spent trying to prove

Science & Technology 7 Comments

Is Meryl Streep Guilty of Blasphemy?

September 25th, 2026

Meryl Streep is voicing Aslan, C.S. Lewis’s Christ figure, and some Christians are crying blasphemy. But if God is beyond biological sex, why does a woman’s voice suddenly feel like a line too far?

Political & Religious Controversy 68 Comments

Forget the Alamo: The Rewriting of History in Texas

September 24th, 2026

A Muslim teenager asks Texas why a student should have to defend her faith in history class. A Baptist pastor warns that privileging one religion puts all at risk. Inside the state's curriculum rewrite.

Political & Religious Controversy 61 Comments

Did God Change His Mind?

September 21st, 2026

In 2007, 14-year-old Dennis Lindberg died after refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds. Now Jehovah’s Witnesses have changed the rule. What does a faith owe those who lived by the old one?

Science & Technology 64 Comments

Climate Change is Testing an Ancient Prayer: Send Rain

September 17th, 2026

From Ugandan rainmakers to American prayer services and cloud seeding in Utah, communities are still trying to influence the weather as climate change makes familiar patterns far less reliable.

Pagan & Wiccan 31 Comments

Religious Freedom or Religious Conquest?

September 15th, 2026

After a Christian pastor condemned the Arapaho Sundance, tribal leaders told her church to leave. Their standoff tests religious freedom, tribal sovereignty and the legacy of forced Christian assimilation.

Political & Religious Controversy 61 Comments

Persecuted For Your Faith? You're On Your Own

September 14th, 2026

Thousands of religious minorities followed America’s legal refugee process: they found sponsors, passed background checks, and waited. Then the path closed. What happens to those left behind?

Political & Religious Controversy 94 Comments

Jesus Wasn't Jesus

September 10th, 2026

Jesus, Mary, Peter and James weren’t the names these biblical figures would have known. Recovering Yeshua and his world may change how we picture Christianity’s origins, and whom we see as foreign.

Christian 72 Comments

If AI Takes Our Jobs, What Are We For?

September 4th, 2026

From Pope Leo XIV to Buddhist Right Livelihood and the Jewish Sabbath, faith traditions have long asked what work is for. AI may soon force us to answer that question in an entirely new way.

Science & Technology 35 Comments

Are We in the End Times?

September 2nd, 2026

JD Vance says he wouldn’t be shocked if the Antichrist were alive today. So what would the Christian end times actually look like, from the Rapture and 666 to Armageddon, the Millennium and Judgment Day?

Christian 144 Comments

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