Unlike a lot of transitioners, Haley Furst didnât want to look like boys or play with boys as a little girl. The idea lodged in her head much later in life as a youth. She was just a curious Christian.
âAt the ages of 13 or 14, I started to really watch a lot of YouTube videos in the pocket of LGBTQ,â Haley says. âA lot of these videos just kind of tumbled into my feed were videos about people talking about why they transitioned from being cisgender to transgender.â
But after Haley got sexually assaulted, she started dressing like a mam because it made her feel safer. School personnel picked up on the change of style and pushed her into the LGBTQ group.
Eventually, the love-bombing turned into pushback when she started posting videos about the negatives of transitioning.
Haley Furst attended Christian school in Canada until for various reasons she moved to public school. She was going to evangelize the worldly kids.
The project was doing well until her friend got drunk when she was over at her house and couldnât drive her home. She took a ride from a man who was there… Read the rest: She wasn’t a tomboy waiting to become trans.
To get her older brother, a deaf and mute, healed, Brahman Neetu Dwivedi scheduled an appointment with Babaji who performed tantra mantra witchcraft to achieve healings, according to his YouTube videos.
âI brought with me 25,000 rupees (equivalent now $263 U.S.),â Neetu says on a dubbed video. âI had so much faith that my brother would get well that I mortgaged my gold chain saying I will take it because he is god and he will listen to me.â
She made the trip to Kanpur in February 2020, and though her testimony video doesnât name the Babiji, details point to Karauli Sarkar Baba, who is now charging Hindus $2,650 U.S. for his miracles.
Neetu Dwivedi was a devoted Hindu who prayed up to three hours a day. When her aunt and uncle became Christian, Neetu challenged herself to prove that the Hindu pantheon was true and powerful.
Without naming him, the details of her video seem to point to Karauli Sarkar Baba of Kanpur.
She arrived at Kanpur and took up residence in the hotel across the street. Every day at 5:00 a.m. she woke up showered and went to the temple to perform a daily havan, the burning of such substances as ghee (clarified butter), grains, herbs and wood into the flames (a kit provided for 3,500 rupees each).
When she finally met Babaji, he interviewed her about her brother, mumbled about how old he was, pulled his magic wand and moved it in a ritual way. And the ceremony was over. Come back every new moon to keep performing rituals, he said.
âYour brother will be fine,â he said.
Neetu was ashamed to face her family. She had traveled and spent all that money for nothing.
Still, she remained devoted to Hinduism.
Anoth… Read the rest: The godman took her money but couldn’t deliver the miracle.
In 1996, Bear Grylls broke his back in three places in a parachuting accident while preparing to climb Mount Everest.
Just 18 months later, in 1998, he climbed Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, at the age of 23, becoming one of the youngest people in the world to do it at that time.
Grylls (whose real name is Edward Michael) later became well-known for his adventures, climbing mountains and crossing seas. To survive in the wild he has eaten scorpions, snakes and the eyeball of yaks.
Heâs a former SAS fighter who parlayed his survival skills into a UK TV program Man vs. Wild from 2006-â11 (Channel 4 in Britain titled it Born Survivor: Bear Grylls).
Known for his strength, Grylls depends on Godâs strength.
âIâve learned to lean on the beautiful presence of Christ within and not try and do it all on my own,â Grylls says. âOn our own, weâre not very strong. The glove, on its own, has no power. The glove needs a hand.â
His best-selling autobiography was Mud, Sweat and Tears (2011). His latest book is The Greatest Story Ever Told (2025) hit the Sunday Times best-seller.
In 2003, Grylls crossed the North Atlantic in an inflatable boat. In 2005, he hosted a dinner party at 25,000 feet. In 2007, he flew over the Himalayas in a powered paraglider. In 2010, he navigated Canadaâs Northwest Passage in a rigid inflatable boat.
Adventure runs in his blood. Jesus runs his heart.
As a young kid, Grylls had a really natural… Read the rest: Survivalist Bear Grylls talks about true strength
After always blaming Israel, the United Nations finally admitted that itâs Hamas to blocks the distribution of humanitarian aid to Gazans.
âArmed people affiliated with the de facto authorities forced their way into a food distribution point in northern Gaza,â said Ramiz Alakbarov, a U.N. deputy special coordinator for the Middle East peace process. âThey entered a World Food Programme warehouse and reportedly assaulted two truck drivers who were delivering humanitarian supplies.â
The late admission removes yet another piece of the jigsaw puzzle shoddily assembled by propagandists to accuse Israel of genocide. If they didnât bomb the hospital, then they starved civilians, the pro-Hamas crowds alleged.
For months and months, the actual aid workers on the ground warned that Hamas was blocking food and supplies in an effort to amplify suffering of the people they were supposedly fighting for. They did and do this create sympathy in the international audience.
A foreign aid watchdog âconsistently flagged incidents of Hamas interference in the delivery of aid, which the U.N., until now, chose to forget,â a senior U…. Read the rest: U.N. belatedly acknowledges that Hamas blocked aid.
Andie Janelle was a YouTube Christian, not a church girl, in her sophomore year, but by her senior year the Phoenix-area girl had left God and become a âdrinking maniac, a drinking psychopath.â
âI got sick right before my 20th birthday,â she says. âI just couldnât control my body. I couldnât control my face. I was laughing at one point and drooling. It was a very weird day and it freaked me out.â
Andieâs prodigal period took her through marijuana, New Age and greed until she was confronted by a African-American entrepreneur on Instagram, who jolted her with surprising perspectives that drove her back to Christian YouTube videos.
Andie Janelle wasnât a Veggie Tales girl and her dad didnât take her to church. But he did teach her Bible stories and give her Bible kids stuff.
In her sophomore year, she got turned on to Christian videos and sermons online and was telling everybody about God.
But her friends drank and smoked. It wore off on her.
By her senior year, God was out and marijuana was in.
So was sleeping around.
âBy senior year I had kind of fallen away cuz I I had just started living my life and I didnât really put my life and God together,â Andie says. âI didnât understand that you shouldnât have premarital sex, you shouldnât be smoking weed and doing drugs. I did not make that connection.â
She didnât go as far of some of her friends, who got into heavier drugsRead the rest: drinking and drifting into New Age.
A whopping 89% of Americans grab their phones within the first 10 minutes of getting out of bed, says addiction expert Arthur Brooks.
Most people donât realize that their screen time is eerily similar to drug or alcohol addiction.
âA lot of people are not convinced that theyâre addicted to their devices,â says Brooks. âAnd one of the big reasons for that is because pretty much everybody is.â
Phones were designed to make life more convenient and enjoyable through texts, phone calls, social media, etc. However, these features create addiction in most everyday people.
Fortunately, Brooks has developed a three-step system to overcome addiction.
You need to get disgusted with your addiction. Anger toward technology for taking control of life and wasting… Read the rest: How to break phone addiction
Dumped from the Ed Sheeran tour over antisemitic remarks on stage, Seattle rapper Macklemore has launched his own âFree Palestineâ tour that selling out with the promise to donate $1M to charities in Gaza. But a review of the charities raises a grim question: Will the money fund terrorism?
Macklemore is giving the money to six entities: Palestine Childrenâs Relief Fund, HEAL Palestine, Gaza Soup Kitchen, Medical Aid for Palestinians, UNRWA USA National Committee and Anera.
Literally, you pay for the ticket, you enjoy the music, you sponsor more mayhem and violence in Israel. Hereâs the analysis of each NGO Macklemore picked:
Four of these are credibly accused of ultimately putting their funds into terrorism, and one of the remaining had a founder who quit over antisemitic remarks.
Anera â A January 2025 NGO Monitor investigation alleged that Anera and Mercy Corps coordinated with a Hamas-controlled Gaza ministry led by an official previously linked by the U.S. Treasury to Hamas
UNRWA USA National Committee â On June 5, 2026, the U.S. Agency for International Developmentâs inspector general announced it had referred 101 current or former UNRWA employees for possible suspension or debarment because of participation in the Oct. 7 attacks and/or affiliation with Hamasâ military wing. There is substantial documented evidence of Hamas-linked personnel within UNRWA. That creates a credible concern about indirect financial benefits and diversion. It does not establish what proportion of UNRWA USA donations reaches Hamas
At age 5, Kinza Masih couldnât go to school. Because her dad was in debt in Faisalabad, Pakistan, she had to help her dad make a daily quota of bricks from mud. Kinzaâs job was to flip the bricks to dry out in the sun. The way debts work in Pakistan, she would likely spend the rest of her life in the brickyards.
Then Mike Ashcraft, a preacher who visited the brickyard, saw her. Taking a break, she sang a little song about trusting Jesus. How could she trust Jesus in such abject poverty and such utter hopelessness? Ashcraft thought to himself.
Pastor Sarfraz at right, Kinza in orange next, with father, mother, siblings and the motorized rickshaw that changes everything for the family.
His heart broke.
âIâm from America,â he said to himself. âI can do something.â
Ashcraft vowed to get Kinza out of the brickyards. After his revival services were done, he flew back to America determined to launch a project to support the school of his host, Pastor Sarfraz Anwar, and to get as many kids out of the brickyard as possible.
The first time Ashcraft saw Kinza working in the brickyards, he vowed to do something.
The project started in phases. First, he fun… Read the rest: Freed from the brickyards of Pakistan
To accuse Israel of genocide (as the U.N. human rights commission did last year) is âlaughable, libelous and an assault on critical thinking,â says military analyst John Spencer.
âEven my seventh grader child would say, âWhat about this? What about that?â says Spencer, executive director of the Urban Warfare Institute based in Colorado Springs.
Now, renowned atheist Sam Harris has weighed in on why he supports Israel on his substack. Critics of Israel, he says, comprise a âgrowing cast of scholars, grifters, and moral lunatics who have made that beleaguered country (Israel) their professional or psychiatric obsession.â
The problem, he says, is not whatever errors the Israelis commit. It is the extremist Muslims who would wipe out all Israelis and all Jews from the face of the earth.
âThe jihadists â Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, etc.âare people worse than Nazis,â Harris says. âI think militant Islam is 10 times worse than you think it is.â
The genocide label doesnât fit Israel because, by definition, it means the intentional and indiscriminate elimination of all people of an ethnicity and Israel:
goes out of its way to warn civilians to evacuate conflict zones andRead the rest: Moral lunatics accuse Israel of genocide.
David Berkowitz murdered six people, wounded 11 others andâĶ is going to Heaven.
Berkowitz is currently serving a life sentence Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County, N.Y. He is expecting to serve another â though hardly it can be considered a âcriminal sentenceâ or a âcorrectional facilityâ â in Heaven.
âI know personally what it is like to be in bondage to sin,â says the serial killer whose crime name was Son of Sam. âI know what it is like to be shackled to Satan. Those cuffs can only be opened in Christ.â
Now the senseless killer who terrorized New York City in 1976-â77 has skipped his latest parole hearing, saying he prefers to stay in prison where he is doing useful work with the Christian ministry to fellow inmates.
âMy work is in prison where God has His people confined,â says Berkowitz, now 73. âThese men need guidance, help and encouragement. Iâm an elder, and this is my calling. The only place Iâm looking forward to going is to Heaven to be with the Lord.â
The infamous Son of Sam got his moniker because he wrote letters to press explaining his killing spree and signed them âSon of Sam.â Sam was his neighbor whose dog had a demon that told Berkowitz who and when to kill.
Born n 1953, he was adopted by a childless couple, Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz, who changed his name and raised him in the Bronx. He was a âvery alienated, disturbed and frightenedâ child, a criminologist said. Things worsened when his adopted mother died of cancer when he was 14.
After high school, Berkowitz enlisted in the U.S. Army and after three years returned to New York City and began working as a mail sorter. All seemed fine.
But there wereRead the rest: Son of Sam meets the Son of God.
She was shopping online for secondhand books when she spotted a New Testament for 69 cents. After searching for spiritual answers for years, she wasnât expecting to find them in an old book she almost overlooked.
âIt was 69 cents or something, and I was like, wow, the New Testamentâonly 70 cents!â says Eneri, a pseudonym she uses online. âIt couldnât hurt to get that.â
Raised in Germany, Eneri grew up in a Muslim household before eventually leaving Islam to find answers for herself. For a time, she described herself as an atheist.
Even though she left her faith behind, she constantly found herself searching for spiritual answers and looking into practices, like meditation or New Age spirituality. She even experimented with astral projection.
âI was at a loss. I didnât even know what to do,â Eneri recalls. âI just kept on searching. I kept on searching.â
When her search did come to an end, it was in a way she never expected.
She purchased a New Testament and shortly afterward… Read the rest: 69 cents for a Bible, and Muslim girl got saved
Kanya and Phonesayâs own neighbors destroyed their house for converting to Christianity
Kanya and Phonesayâs house was dismantled by their Laotian neighbors for becoming Christian.
âThose who donât belong to us must leave now,â the villagers shouted. âWeâll tear the house down now!â
Along with seven other families, they were expelled from the village for âdisrupting harmonyâ and abandoning traditional beliefs. They now live in the forest.
The Laotian Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but enforcement adheres to local customs more than national law.
âThe officers asked if I would renounce my faith,â Kanya said per translation. âI answered firmly that I would not.â
If a church is not registered with the government, it is illegal and subject to shutdown at any moment… Read the rest: Laos – Villagers attack Christians, dismantle their home
Edwin Hubbleâs 1929 discovery of the expanding universe shook up Albert and the entire scientific world because it undermined their cherished notion that the universe had no beginning. If it had a beginning, there might be a Creator.
When Einstein relented and agreed that Hubble was right.
âPhilosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order is repugnant to me,â scientist Arthur Eddington said. âI should like to find a genuine loophole.â
Ultimately, the ground-breaking star-gazing Hubble did with the then-new telescope on the mountain crest overlooking Los Angeles caused so many physicists and astronomers to capitulate. The galaxy, Hubble observed, was not the totality; it was the beginning of a far vaster universe â and galaxies were moving away from each other, causing the universe to expend like an inflating balloon.
âI was wrong,â Einstein said.
If the universe was currently observed expanding, then logically in the past everything was closer together and might even have started at one point.
Nowadays, scientists do NOT use the supposed Steady State Theory, which got definitively debunked when 1965, when astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson detected the cosmic microwaveRead the rest: Hubble rocked Einstein’s world.
When Donnie McClurkin was only 8 years old, his brother, age 2, was killed in a car crash.
âAt the end of all the accomplishments, Iâve got to be that little boy, the one who was broken, realized his own lack of self-worth, that depended on God in the beginning, the one that depends on God now,â says the famous Gospel singer.
McClurkin has endured extreme abuse and abundant of grief. Heâs won awards for worshipful music that inspires and uplifts others.
Donnie McClurkin was born on Long Island, New York, in a family torn apart by drug abuse and phsycial and sexual abuse.
After his brother was killed, his parents sent him to live with relatives while they struggled with grief. His uncle abused him sexually, sending him into a confusing spiral about his self-worth and his sexuality.
He became a Christian when he was nine.
âAnd for 20 years, I was trying to find who I was, trying to define myself and my lust pulling me one way or my passions pulling me one way and my spiritual conviction pulling me the other,â he says.
McClurkinâs found solace in music â and he discovered talent.
He formed the McClurkin Singers with his sisters and a neighbor. They sang with Tri-Boro Mass Choir which introduced him to James Cleveland, a famous gospel singer, who became his mentor.
After some of his songs became famous on the radio he sang at the White House for First Lady Barbara Bushâs literacy initiative.Read the rest: The ups and downs of Donnie McClurkin.
An Egyptian farmer was plowing his field, when clink the shear hit something solid. As he dug, it turned out to not be an annoying rock. It was a stature head of the pharaoh who faced off with Moses in the Bible.
Ramses II is carved into the 5-foot-tall head unearthed Behbeit El Hagar, in Gharbia province, by archaeologists when the farmer alerted the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt of the accidentally discovery, the Egyptian Gazette reported.
The head likely belonged to a 27-foot tall statue of the once king of Upper and Lower Egypt.
At the same site, diggers found a second, 8-foot-tall statue of the dignitary and a 4-foot-high block of pink granite containing fragments of hieroglyphic inscriptions proclaiming the pharaoh âNesu Beti,â King of Upper and Lower Egypt, and âSa Raâ, meaning Son of Ra.
Born in 1303 BC, Ramses II is widely considered one of the most influential and powerful Egyptian kings of Egyptâs New Kingdom era (1570 to circa 1069 B.C.). Heâs believed to be the king who lost to Moses in the struggle…. Read the rest: Head of pharaoh found from the time of Moses.
If you want to be defiant against the older generations in Sweden, then you become a Christian.
âYou have parents, even grandparents, who are secular. So if you want to be a punk, you want to rebel, you become a believer where you have a Bible under your arm,â says Marco Stromberg of Focus Business School. âThatâs the most punk thing you can do in Sweden today.â
As part of the falling away from Christian origins that affected Western Europe, only 5% of Swedes attended church as of 2000. Most members in the Church of Sweden said they didnât even believe in Jesus as of 2011.
Things are changing.
In 2025, Swedish youth voted Jesus the influencer of the year.
âThere is such a longing for Jesus within the young generation,â says Philip Falk Azevedo, a leader of Swedenâs Jesus Conference. âPeople are hungry for the word of God and they want the truth. A lot of young people gathered for Jesus.â
Mobbed by joy: Youths shout and jump and celebrate with a young man who got baptized.
Within its third year, the Jesus Conference registered 3,000 attendees.
One of those young people was Oscar Jakobsson, who Read the rest: Sweden revival.
When Muslim immigrants come to the West, they bring their faith with them.
No problem. We honor freedom of religion.
But what if their religion includes child marriage?
New data from the German state of Baden-WÞrttemberg reveals that 358 marriages since April 2012 involve a underage girl (almost always its a girl).
One of the girls was aged 11.
Islam permits marriage of girls aged 9 since the prophet consummated his marriage to Aisha when she was 9. The hadith says she married at age 6 and brought her dolls and play things with her. Mohammad wisely and graciously allowed her to develop to age 9 before fulfilling the marriage.
The new data was revealed by a local politician from the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
âNearly 40% of child marriages were contracted between Syrians, while child marriages between two Germans account for only 0.3%,â posted on X the AfD politician Nikolaos Boutakoglou.
In 2018, a 14-year-old Afghan girl was m… Read the rest: Muslim immigrants practice underage marriage in Germany
When U.K. authorities released on bail seven terror suspects tied to Iran after they were apprehended in September outside an air force base that housed American B-1 bombers, President Donald Trump was dismayed: âI wouldnât have done that.â
Once the worldâs leader, Britain has descended to soft power and then even lower to bungling incompetent.
âEverything that we are seeing from politicians to civil servants makes no sense,â U.K. journalist Mayhar Tousi said even prior to the latest plot. âIt feels like this country is not just weak. I donât think it knows what it wants. Have we gone stupid?â
After disrupting 15 Iranian assassination attempts, Britain was still unable to bring itself to designate the IRGC a terrorist organization, as has done the U.S., the European Union, Australia, Canada and some other 25 nations.
Arrested for a serious suspected terror plot. What did the U.K. do? Release them.
In a case of too little too late, the U.K. just dinged the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps with a lesser designation, âa state threat.â
On Sept. 27, five masked men Read the rest: Bungling Britain RELEASES terror suspects.
Two years ago, Muslim radicals torched the house of Bangladeshi pastor Tapan Sarkar. He rebuilt and now is reaching hundreds of kids with the Gospel.
âWe had the opportunity to reconstruct â or rather, renovate â thanksto the love and prayers of our fellow believers,â his wife, Rupali, texted via WhatsApp. âGod spoke to the hearts of my brothers and sisters to build a church building. Through their love and prayers, we were able to rebuild again.â
Amid widespread protests and vandalism in 2024, Islamists â believed to be BNP Jamaat-e-Islami â struck their humble home in Satkhira, Khulna in Southeastern Bangladesh.
At the time, there was upheaval in the nation.
âThere are open murders, burnings, people canât work now because every family is starved of food,â reported Rupali, who speaks English. âThere is no food. People are running from one place to another. There is looting at night and mostly women are being raped.â
As the turmoil subsided, the Sarkars were faced with the prospectsRead the rest: Two years after arson attack, Bangladeshi Christians make a comeback.
A 14-year-old girl comes home from school and instead of being welcomed with warm arms, sheâs welcomed with a new suitor in exchange for two bags of flour.
If a girl gets raped, itâs even worse. âWhen rape cases are discovered in schools, you find weddings and celebrations at the school the next day,â a refugee told U.N. investigators.
As residual sniping between Israel and Hamas continues, as Hamas sandbags the implementation of Trumpâs peace plan, Gazans are falling back on the legal/cultural code of Islam that treats women as inferior.
The Middle East, North Africa, South and Central Asia continue the historical practice of discrediting girls, of treating them like an asset, of worrying more about family honor than the value of your daughters. Rapists get off easy, and girls have virtually no say in the matter.
UNFPA (UNâs Fund for Population Activities) reported a 123% jump of early and forced marriages and an 11% increase of Gender Based Violence in the first quarter of 2026.
âThese trends are attributed to heightened stress felt by women and men forced to live in inadequate shelters, continued limited access to basic resources including food, water, basic hygiene material and clothing,â said a U.N. report that surveyed 230 women in refugee camps.
Another refugee living in a school-turned-shelter said that rape victims are often forced to marry their rapist to avoid any possible scandals. Other families reported that they married off their little daughters so young so that their husband could protect them from any lurking rapists in the refugee camps… Read the rest: R*pe victims forced to marry their attackers in Gaza.
Five times Banaz Mahmod went to the UK police. Five times the cops didnât believe her. Then her father, uncle and cousins brutally killed her. To save the familyâs honor.
âThey let these people come into the house and take her and her life, stuff her into a suitcase, and to take her away in a hired car miles away, to be buried in an abandoned home like she was trash that just got taken out, says Banazâs sister, Bekhal, who testified in court against her own family.
Welcome to Islam. The West, which views Christianity as evil, assumes that the Religion of Peace must be everything different, glossing over such things as honor killings and womenâs rights.
âIt should be called the devilâs work,â says Bekhal who herself was nearly killed by her brother. âHonor has nothing to do with it at all. Itâs dishonor. Disloyalty.â
Banaz and Bekhal Mahmod were born and raised in Kurdish Iraq. Their father would fly into a violent rage over little things: Petting a dog, looking at a man in the street, wearing makeup or nail polish, plucking eyebrows and shaving legs were all infractions that incurred savage beatings.
When Bekhal was eight, all the girls of the family were subjected to Female Genital Mutilation in order to preserve their purity. Her grandmother cut too much on Bekhal, and the girl nearly bled out.
The family immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1998. The girls wished to adopt some Western customs and experience a bit of freedom. Their dad intensified his strict control over their lives, insisting they keep the ways of Islam, which urges husbands to beat their wives and male guardians to beat daughters and sisters.
The lived in the Kurdish community of South London where e… Read the rest: Honor killings in the West.
Alisa Childers recommends parents donât send their kids to Biola University, once a bastion of Biblical Christianity. She says Biolaâs messaging is foggy about transgenderism. Biola may not be alone.
âWeâre losing our way. Weâve dumbed down the definition of scripture. We no longer are claiming that itâs inherent. Weâre apologizing for scripture. Weâre deconstructing it,â says Dr. Everett Piper, who was president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University for 17 years. âTo encourage this crisis of heart, mind and soul, I found to be very concerning.â
Alisa Childers
In a previous generation, Christian colleges were at the forefront of âdeconstructionism,â the removing of miracles from the Bible. Now the academics at our institutions are bending to left and to progressive politics.
âIn some parts of the university, there is a flowering of a more progressive, justice-oriented Christianity,â said a faculty who asked not to be identified in the Los Angeles Times. âIn other parts, there is pushback, a fear of a liberal Christianity that strays from Biolaâs conservative roots.â
The thing is this: parents enroll their kids and donors give because theyâre trusting that the institution upholds Christian truths and values.
But if internally the faculty is undermining the mission, it is fraud.
Childers, the daughter of Jesus Movement pioneer Chuck Girard, originally was a member of She Christian pop group ZOEgirl, signed to Sparrow Records in 1999. She experienced a crisis of faith when a trusted pastor began to assail essential doctrines.
Out of the soul-searching and truth-… Read the rest: Christian colleges that aren’t Christian.
At 17, Sohail Ahmed âseriously began considering engaging in an act of violence in London,â he says.
âI believed that there was a never-ending war between Muslims and non-Muslims,â he says, âand that every single non-Muslim was the avowed enemy of every Muslim who was alive. It was our god-given goal to establish an Islamic empireâĶ This Islamic empire would then through offensive warfare annex other territories and eventually take over the world. Then the world would be living under the rule of Islam.â
Now, Sohail Ahmed works as a counter-terrorist, trying to convince others to leave extremism. But he predicts terrorism is âgoing to get much worse.â
When his parents got exposed to Wahhabism, they radicalized Sohail at age 6. Raised in Britain, he was taught âBritain is the enemy.â
He had autism and got bullied, which contributed to a victim mentality that solidified his move into extremism.
In college, he radicalized others, never getting to the point of advocating they engage in violence. They got there all by themselves.
âI radicalized a good few people,â he says. âOne of whom eventually went on to travel to Syria to, I presume, fight for ISIS. Thatâs something for which Iâll never forgive myself.â
But doubts crept in, even from chRead the rest: Clash-of-Civilizations mentality drives Islamism
At the moment Brittni De La Mora read in the Bible Revelations 2:20-23, she realized she HAD TO GET OUT OF THE P*RN INDUSTRY.
Nevertheless, I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into s3xual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.
âI felt God say this isnât the life that I have for you the life that I have for you will overflow with so much love peace and joy and if you would quit the p*rn industry today I would bless your life like no man ever could,â Brittni relates.
Donât let the p*rn star have a Bible. It did a number on these 10 former p*rnography stars:
To prep for filming, Crystal Bassette was numbing herself with alcohol and painkillers.
And she was reading her Bible â on set.
âI felt like (p*rn) wasnât my calling,â she recalls and got out.
Joshua Broome aspired to acting and modeling but worked as a bartender to pay bills. Some s3xy ladies approached him and invited to consider filming p*rn. At first he was reluctant, but as bills mounted, he took the easy way out.
I didnât really think about what I was doing,â he explains. âAs a person I really stopped existing. I started isolating myself very quickly from my friends and family because of shame and guilt.â
Broome became a star, filming about 1,000 titles in six years.
Joshua Broome, his wife and kids today
But he felt filthy.
One day, he got in his car, crying and driving, driving and crying. From Los Angeles, he drove home to Mom in South Carolina. At first he worked as a personal trainer but then met the woman who became his wife. She introduced to him the Gospel, and today he is a pastor and an anti-p*rn advocate.
Crissy Moran, like so many others, felt financially trapped by the industry. âThey would want me to say things that I donât say and do things I donât do,â she confides. âBut I got used to it.â
Then she met Chris. âDo you believe in God?â he asked her.
âAt that moment, I just got chills all over,â she explains. âI hadnât heard anything about God … Read the rest: 10 p+rn stars who found Jesus
Tracking his online banking, China busted a Christian pastor who was printing Bibles this month. He is in jail today.
Online monitoring is the new way governments hostile to the Gospel are cracking down on missionaries.
Whatâs the solution? A Christian hackathon to find a way to transfer funds without the digital fingerprint used by repressive governments like China, India, North Korea and Afghanistan.
âYou have a couple hundred people here, says Eugene Bach at a hackathon in Brazil. âThis has been a phenomenal experience of hackers from Brazil and all over the world, looking at ways to solve issues for missionaries.â
The #HACK in Ivory Coast
Coders, designers and other technological professionals from not just Brazil (Italy and Nigeria were there too) gathered for three days to brainstorm and write code to solve problems for missionaries. Another problem theyâre addressing … Read the rest: Pizza, Red Bull, no sleep: #HACK helps missionaries
One day he cackled mockingly that somebody in the comments suggested he had felt the Holy Spirit. A few days later, Brian Guan was crying. He had accepted Jesus.
âThis is Day 20 of pretending God real. I got to come clean,â says Brian Guan. âIâve been Iâve started getting nightmares that will wake me up in the middle of the night. hey feel very like dark and sinister in nature. My girlfriend started getting dreams of doing bad things to me. My roommate and best friend was like getting dreams that this all happened over the course of one week. But dude, that fear was humbling. he pretending stopped working for him. If if these dark things are real, I need God. And I canât just pretend to need God.â
A kid who lost faith in college, Brian Guan of New York performed an experiment for 30 days online. He didnât believe in God. If he pretended to believe in God, what would happen? Daily, he published videos under the title âFaithless Christianityâ starting July 31.
The former crypto techie decided that if he was going to âpretendâ to believe, he needed to do what Christians do: pray, read the Bible, go to church and whatnot.
On the first day, he learned that Christians need to forgive. He called an estranged friend and reconciled.
On Day 5, he asked God to take away his addiction to… Read the rest: Brian Guan finds faith through social experiment.
Hamas was supposed to turn in their weapons and let civilians lead Gaza as part of the peace treaty with Israel and Trump. But that hasnât happened yet. Instead, Hamas is killing its own citizens, without trial, for âcollaboratingâ with its enemy, Israel.
On July 1, 2026, the Hamas-affiliate âResistance Security Systemâ executed Mustafa Mahna in Gaza City with no judicial proceeding. He was blamed for helping Israeli forces locate and kill senior members of Hamasâs military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, especially senior military commander Ezziddine al-Haddad.
In the news, much is made of Israeli forces killing Gazans and very little of Hamas killing its own people.
The July 1 killing marked the beginning of a âlarge-scale security campaign,â an unidentified senior Resistance Security System official announced. More extrajudicial killings were expected.
Within days, Hamas-linked Telegram channels announced that another alleged informant had been arrested and interrogated and would be executed âwithin days.â Another report said the suspect was accused of helping Israel locate Hamas commander Muhammad Odeh.
The United Nations is watching Hamas executions and issued a report in June 2026 in which it identified 249 cases of extrajudicial execution or severe physical violence in Gaza between August 2024 and January 2026, resulting in at least 108 deaths.
At least 60 cases involved Hamas-affiliated forces. Victims included people accused of collaborating with Israel as well as alleged criminals, looters and Hamasâs internal opponents.
Notably on Oct. 13, 2025, eight members of the Dughmush family were publicly shackled, blindfolded and Read the rest: Hamas kills Gazans.
Growing up in Indonesia, Lynn began to question Islam, but when she asked her teachers, she felt rebuffed.
âIt was almost wrong that I asked, like I shouldnât be questioning the words of God (Allah),â Lynn says. This is actually a very common experience for Muslims because Qurâan 5:101 says, O you who have believed, do not ask about things which, if they are shown to you, will distress you.
In other words, believe blindly. It is a truth that canât be questioned.
Lynn belonged to a family that was very committed to Islam but didnât practice so rigorously as some. For example, her mom didnât wear hijab.
Eventually her questioning led her to a Pentecostal church. She didnât have permission to go to church. She informed her parents that she had âextracurricular activities.â If she had told her parents, she would have been kicked out. At 14, she had no one who would take her in.
âI really enjoyed it,â she says. âI liked the worship style. I like how I felt and connected with God. It felt it felt really nice, and I really feel the presence of Holy Spirit.â
Eventually, church members approached her and … Read the rest: Don’t ask questions about the perfect religion, like why did Mohammad marry a 9-year-old.
Trish Chokyeâs dad sent her to school dressed as a boy. He beat her, punched her and demeaned her.
âYouâre stupid, youâre never going to amount to anything,â Dad told her. âI wish you werenât born.â
Eventually, Trish became a man, dressing like one, acting like one and loving women. She had walked away from God and drowned out her fears of going to Hell with an abundance of liquor.
Her only relief from her fatherâs torture was her 26 year old step-brother, Paul, who acted as a protector. But he committed suicide when she was 12, and Trishâs life soon went into a rapid decline.
She married just to get out of the house. But after four years of tumultuous and violent marriage, she was thrown through a 90-gallon fish tank. The marriage was shattered.
Afterwards, she began to cut her hair like a man, dressed like a man and went to bars to hook up with women.
âI lusted after women. I was obsessed with being in their life,â she says. âI also was obsessed with what a man should be like and what a man wasnât like in my life. And so, I set out that I was going to be that man to them. That I was going to love these women the way that they should be loved.â
Her life as a man.
For the next 14 years, her life consisted of sex, failed relationships, addiction to drugs and alcohol, lost jobs and a suicide attempt.
As someone who had grown up in church, she feared she was destined to eternal punishment.
âYour going to hell,â was her thought. âThereâs nothing you can do about it. Youâve lived your life this way. And thatâs it.
âI would wake up with the shakes and the tremors and I would grab that bottle and I would chug it down just to hope t
Read the rest: Raised as a boy, Trish lived as a man.
Exactly nine months after Baylor prayed for a younger sibling, Hayden arrived at their house to be adopted on Oct. 5, 2015.
Nine months earlier, Mom thought her 9-year-old daughter was adorable and silly when she piped up with: âMom, I think the Lord is calling us to adopt a kid.â
âWell, I donât feel the calling, but obviously if thereâs a kid on my doorstep then I will take them in,â Mom replied politely. There were no plans for more kids.
Born in a Christian household, Baylor was the younger sibling and wanted to be an older sister. Her aunt, who struggled with alcohol, gave birth to Hayden and gave over parenting to Baylorâs mom and dad.
Nine months later. âWhen me and my mom looked back at those prayers, we just started balling,â she … Read the rest: Mom, God wants me to have a baby brother.
Hating Israel is the most popular sport in the Middle East, where itâs even more popular than it is on woke colleges in America.
But thatâs about to change. Saudi Arabia, a centerpiece of Islam, is being forced into the arms of Israelis by the belligerent Houthis on its southern border.
The home of Mecca has taken embarrassing hits from the Yemeni rebel group in recent days despite spending $83B annually on its military and despite having U.S. Patriot missiles and other defense systems from around the world.
The Houthis hit Riyadhâs King Khalid International Airport with a missile and drone attack on Sept. 19. They blew Aramco facilities at Yanbu on the same day and again five days later. They hit a military command center, weapons depot, missile positions and military camps at Jazan with dozens of drones and missiles on Sept. 24.
Why canât Saudi Arabia defend itself?
âSaudi Arabia and other Gulf states specifically hobble their militaries. They make their militaries ineffective,â says Murtaza Hussain, a journalist and policy analyst. âThey donât want them to be too effectiveâ so that… Read the rest: Hating Israel is ending for Saudi Arabia.
Many Christians across the globe are facing death for simply saying âI believe in Jesus Christ.â
âThey lose their homes, their jobs, and some lose their lives, all because of their faith in Jesus,â says a video on the website of Help the Persecuted, an organization to rescue converts to Christianity in Muslim lands.
Their group has created safe houses throughout the Islamic world to house persecuted converts. A safe house is a âtypical, rented apartment, usually two or three bedrooms, located within ordinary neighborhoods across the Islamic World.â
Once a person arrives at one of these houses, theyâre given food, clothing, and medicine, and treated with dignity and respect.
A majority of those staying in the safe houses are from an Islamic background who have converted to Christianity after finding Jesus. The threat is death sentence for apostasy, often carried out by their own family.
These people sometimes arrive beaten or imprisoned, or have been kicked out and shunned from their families due to their changing faith. For a self-proclaimed âreligion of peaceâ, this doesnât sound very peaceful.
They also send out field… Read the rest: Safe houses for people who leave the Religion of Peace.
Two kids â both autistic â who lived 5,000 miles away from each other and had never met, not even online, knew each other to their surprise of their parents. They had met at âthe hill.â
âOh thatâs April,â Cody Nuessle said. His mom had shown him a picture of another autistic kid from Scotland. Cody lives in Arizona.
âHow do you know her name?â the baffled mom asked.
âFrom the hill,â he responded. âSheâs known as a worshiper. She belts out glory to God in the highest. Her dadâs name is âĶâ
Researchers in academia and church ministers are developing ways for non-verbal autistic people to break out of their shell and communicate with the outside world.
Cody is non-verbal autistic, but researchers are developing ways for them to communicate, and now Cody emerges from his inner world. His parents go to Pastor Joe Infrancoâs church, where they have special ministry to autistic people.
What theyâre discovering is on the cutting edge of science and overlaps with the people who went through Near Death Experiences (NDEs).
The idea that souls of the autistic can travel in their dreams Read the rest: How did two autistic kids — one from Scotland, the other from Arizona — know each other if they never met (in the physical world)?
Every Thursday evening, about 20 people gather for a devotional â not in a traditional church, but in Minecraft.
This is how Florian Homberger, 43, is a Reformed pastor in MÞllheim, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau, evangelizes.
Surrounded by blocks, virtual buildings and digital landscapes, Florian interacts with other players all around the world â and he introduces them to Jesus.
At his online âchurch service,â about half of the participants had no previous connection to the church.
âThe traditional church is unfamiliar territory for many people,â Florian Homberger says. âBut Minecraft is their living room, where they feel at home.â
Since the summer of 2025, he has been holding weekly Christian devotionals in Minecraft with other members.
The meetings last about 30 minutes and connect biblical teachings with activities in the game.
Participants collectRead the rest: Hey Christian kids! You can still play videos games and serve God at the same time!
Two sets of maids were given different advice, one that their normal cleaning duties fulfilled the surgeon generalâs recommended daily exercise quota. The other group were told it wasnât enough.
At the end of the 4-week scientific survey, the first group had lower weight, lower blood pressure and lower body mass index.
Their thinking affected their body, psychologists say.
âStudies demonstrate that the mind can mobilize the bodyâs healing properties,â says Gina Simmons Schneider Ph.D. âBegin by harnessing your beliefs in the service of your health and well-being.â
The Bible admonishes Christians to believe in order to receive a miracle of healing. Curiously, recent scientific data appears to corroborate the Bibleâs teaching, though they approach it from the secular point of view.
A 2009 study found that a patient with giant cancer tumors improved based on what he was told, not based on the meds he was given.
The tumors were in his armpits, groin and abdomen, and doctors gave him only days to live. He was admitted to the testing of an âexperimental drug.â Initially, his tumors disappeared.
When later he learned that the drug failed in clinical trials, his tumors returned.
After that, doctors told him they were giving him a âdouble strengthâ medication (when in fact it was only a placebo), and the tumors vaniRead the rest: Did science just confirm (indirectly) what Jesus said about faith healing?
At the agreed meet-up place, Dustin Lampros waits to talk to the person he has only met online. Heâs going to put him behind bars
âWeâre catching grown adults coming to meet with what they believe are children to engage in sexual activity,â Lampros says.
Dustin Lampros, an MMA fighter who freelances busting predators in Florida, uses the moniker 561 Predator Catcher on social media.
He started just after he re-committed to the Lord and starting praying for a ministry to get involved with in 2022. His friend showed him what creeps were doing online luring unwitting victims to meetups.
Lampros was disgusted and unsettled. He decided to use is cool wits and fighting prowess to bring down some of these evil people.
He set up a fake profile, Amy, 13 and within seconds grown men were reaching out to âher.â
âInstantly, I knew I was meant to do something,â he says. âI could help.â
Lampros is not a 13-year-old girl â heâs a 32-year-old professional fighter, who pummels opponents. His cage name is Scrappy.
After exchanging photos and agreeing to meet up forRead the rest: MMA fighter busts child predators.
The more the Islamic clerics in power pushed for full and complete submission to make the Islamic utopia, the more the Iranian people became disenchanted and disengaged.
A new leaked Iranian government report found that a astonishing 73% of Iranians now support the separation of religion from state, a significant leap from less than 31% in 2015. Only 11% regularly engage in congregational prayers, while 45% have never attended Friday prayers.
âOn a government-led poll, that is insane,â says Armin Navabi, of Atheist Republic. âIn one of the last theocracies on the planet, in a religious government, 73% says they want secular government. That is a high number.â
The survey was conducted by the Islamic Republicâs Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance and was meant to be confidential for Iranâs leaderâs eyes only. But it got leaked.
Already, Iranians felt stifled. They opposed the mandatory hijab and were deserting mosques in mass. In 2023, two-thirds of mosques had closed due to lack of attendance.
Armin Navabi who lives in Canada
Then the uprising in January saw protesters burning mosques because theyâre also centers of government action against the people.
When the clerics were the revolution in 1979, Iranians supported them. But when they took over, they institutionalized. A new revolution of the people began brewing Read the rest: Iranians want a secular government.
God is having a moment in many countries around the world: Germany, France, Scotland. People are getting baptized like crazy. buying and reading Bibles. Young people are going to church, sports figures are promoting God.
Now, the bastion of secularism, the cosmopolitan madhouse of mocking Christianity, NYC is experiencing a return to God
âFor 25 years, I did not go to church at all,â a parishioner says.
St. Josephâs Church in Greenwich Village hosts Sunday morning masses with standing room only, lines out the door, mostly young p… Read the rest: Revival in New York City.
In 20 years of teaching kundalini yoga, Kara Seymour never found peace. Then she retired, moved to North Carolina and accidentally fell into a Bible study group â something she was loathe to do.
âA peace came over me that day that was so palpable and so profound,â Seymour says. âIt was the peace that I was after for so long in my New Age life. It happened without me meditating, without me getting on my mat, without me doing anything except literally saying, âI accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior.’â
Kundalini yoga brought Seymour acclaim and riches. Christ brought her peace.
Her story begins with the divorce of her parents when she was 12. Her dad was her world at the time, and she learned only then that he was alcoholic. âI was thinking, âYou canât stop drinking to save our family?’â she says. âPart of me felt less important than alcohol.â
She got into yoga looking for answers to the turmoil of her childhood.
Seymour was first both a disciple and teacher of Vinyasa yoga, which employs physical poses are linked together in a flowing sequence coordinated with breathing to achieve peace and healing from trauma.
Then she discovered Kundalini yoga, which âawakensâ the latent spiritual power or energy believed to reside near the base of the spine.
For 20 years, she taught in her own exclusive Read the rest: Kundalina guru finds peace in Jesus
Without irony, a Muslim man, Mohammed Hijab, wrote a book about feminism. In Fifth-Wave Feminism, the influencer meant to elucidate from the Muslim perspective but inadvertently demonstrated a major flaw of Islam: men tell women what to think, do and feel.
As a result of the unfair treatment women get in Islam, hundreds of thousands are quietly quitting the religion that lets a man marry four wives, urges a husband to beat his spouse and rewards men with 72 virgins in Paradise to eternally copulate while not specifying anything for women in Heaven.
âWe hear apologists constantly claim that Islam honors women and that any oppression is a cultural misunderstanding,â Islam critic Cyberpunk Dingo says. âBut seeing women flee in these numbers shatters that facade completely. It sends a message that people who know the religion best are the ones most desperate to escape it.
âThis new wave of apostasy, this avalanche, as even Islamic preachers have labeled it, is led by ex-Muslim women,â he adds. These women give âcries of pain realizing their religion doenât view them as equal human beings.â
Some Muslim girls accept the inequality: a womanâs testimony values only half a manâs, she must cover her head, she must not go out except with a guardian, she can be forced in marriage (as young as 9 years old), she gets half the inheritance of her brothers. The threat of hellfire or being âhonor-killedâ cows them into obedience.
Others rankle.
âThere are so many people out there who romanticize Islam and they donât talk about the reality,â says Fariza Gulomikova, a Tajik apostate. âI am sharing my own personal experience of what Iâve seen. People donât understand how much women in Islam suffer and the abuse that we endure on a daily basis. You get threatened by Muslim men all the time. I do not want to hear another Muslim tell me that Islam is a religion of peace because it is not.â
The catalyst for the growing landslide of apostasy among Muslim women is the Internet. With just a wifi connection, Muslim women can now find others with the similar feelings, doubts, questions and misgivings. They can find support, through anonymity, in countless groups and threads to vent their frustrations and find solidarity.
On Faithless Hijabi website, of the 160+ ex-Muslim women, many still wear the hijab out of fear of retaliation but confess they have stopped believing. âIâm a hijabi (meaning, she wears it but doesnât want to), so are my sisters,â says a 22-year-old Middle Eastern/Central Asian woman. âWeâre not Muslims. I have to wear it. I hate… Read the rest: Women lead the charge of people leaving Islam
âThe genius of Mohammad rearticulated the tribalism of the Arabian peninsula theologically,â says Raymond Ibrahim, a historian. âWhat is tribalism? Everyone outside of the tribe is the enemy. You exist for me to kill and plunder and enslave and do whatever with. Mohammad rearticulated it: You still hate people, anyone whoâs outside your trip, anyone whoâs not Muslim.â
Ibrahimâs interpretation answers a question that has baffled historians for centuries: How did Islam conquer the Roman and Persian Empires in a mere 100 years? Blitzkrieg warfare.
âThe most popular theory is that the two contending powers Rome or Byzantium and the Sassanian Persians were so weak because they had been fighting each other,â says Ibrahim, who is from Egypt. âThatâs the most popular theory, but I donât think thatâs convincing in and of itself.â
Islamâs 100-year explosion across the North of Africa, across the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain, the expansion eastward to gobble up domains previously held by the Persians, is simply astonishing.
By ancient standards, itâs unparalleled. As… Read the rest: How did Islam spread so quickly?
A Business School student was reportedly assaulted for being a Jew. Three Jewish students in the Kennedy School were prevented from addressing the issue of Israel as a Jewish democracy. Widespread harassment and hostile speech (âFrom the River to the SeaâĶâ) and antisemitic conduct.
Welcome to Harvard University, arguably Americaâs most auspicious institution of higher learning. And fertile soil for hatred of Jews.
A civil suit brought against Harvard prevailed, but a Department of Justice Title VI suit was thrown out in August.
âPreviously, the Justice Department had simply tried to move very quickly, cut some corners and freeze funding to Harvard, and a different federal district court judge says thatâs too quick. You need to go through the process,â says Kenneth L. Marcus, founder and chairman of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
âThis time the Justice Department and the Health and Human Services Department went through the process and theyâre saying now itâs too slow because the period of time between the alleged incidents and the filing in court was too long,â Marcus adds. âWell, if both decisions hold, then one could never have a successful Justice Department Title VI case in the District Court in Massachusetts involving either anti-semitism or anything else.â
Title VI was part of the 1964 Civil Right legislation, stating, âNo person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.â
The Dept. of Justice has brought very few suits… Read the rest: Can Harvard shake off antisemitism?
Country singer Ella Langleyâs was breaking through to national fame, and she was breaking down.
âMy bass player walked up and my face was obviously swollen, Iâd been crying,â Ella says. âAnd he said, âUm, are you okay?â I just lost my mind. Iâm having this panic attack again, and now Iâm embarrassed on top of feeling this way.â
The collision of rapid fame, exhaustion, pressure, depression and a profound feeling that she didnât deserve her success culminated in feelings of imposter syndrome and anxiety.
Ella had barely broken through nationally, and too quickly she got eight nominations for ACM Awards in May 2025. It was what she wanted but she felt she didnât deserve it and couldnât sustain the success.
Due to her breakdowns, Ella took … Read the rest: Ella Langley opens up about mental health
She didnât like Islam because it was unfair to Christians. She didnât like Christianity because the Christians were Russians, who had taken over her country, Tajikistan.
âThis is the first time Iâm meeting Christians. And immediately I sense that there was something different about them,â Fariza says. âThey were just very kind to me. They were very welcoming. They were so nice. It just melted my heart. âI looked at them and I was like, ââOh my gosh, thereâs something different about these people.’â
But when her cousin straightened up, got out of drinking and drugs and started going to a Baptist church, Fariza Gulomikova paid attention. One days, she went to church with her cousin.
At a church camp, Fariza received Jesus into her heart when she was 11.
âI could just feel the powerful the the power of the Holy Spirit come over me,â she says. âIt was so powerful that I like I fell on my knees and I started crying and Read the rest: Tajik Muslim finds Christ.
Country singer Ella Langleyâs was breaking through to national fame, and she was breaking down.
âMy bass player walked up and my face was obviously swollen, Iâd been crying,â Ella says. âAnd he said, âUm, are you okay?â I just lost my mind. Iâm having this panic attack again, and now Iâm embarrassed on top of feeling this way.â
The collision of rapid fame, exhaustion, pressure, depression and a profound feeling that she didnât deserve her success culminated in feelings of imposter syndrome and anxiety.
Ella had barely broken through nationally, and too quickly she got eight nominations for ACM Awards in May 2025. It was what she wanted but she felt she didnât deserve it and couldnât sustain the success.
Due to her breakdowns, Ella took… Read the rest: Ella Langley mental health.
During his 12 years as a Navy SEAL, Craig Sawyer captured Iraqi prisoners, executed search and rescue and performed sniper operations. But true ugliness hit him at home.
âMy wife woke me up and said, âCraig, itâs Aspen. Sheâs been raped,ââ he said. âAnd I woke up out of a deep sleep in go mode.â
His daughter Aspen, 18, had been raped while walking near the University of Arizona.
Sawyer told the detective, âYouâd better be quick if you plan to beat me to him.â
Overnight, Craigâs mission changed from fighting evils abroad to fighting evil in America. Today, Craig runs Veterans for Child Rescue (V4CR) running sting operations to bust predators.
Craig Sawyer joined the Marine Corps in 1983, hoping to work in military intelligence and reconnaissance. âI felt compelled to go and confront and fight those people (the terrorist) and stop them,â he said.
But since he couldnât get into the elite fighting he wanted in the Marines, he switched to Navy and became a SEAL in 1986.
Sawyer joined SEAL Team 1 and served in the Persian Gulf War.
âIt was an honor to serve with such amazing warriors,â he said. âAll glory for anything Iâve done goes to King Jesus!â
After returning… Read the rest: His daughter got raped. Now he hunts predators.
As a keeper, Jesse Bradley saved shots. As a chaplain, he saves souls.
âMy identity is not in saving goals anymore but in seeing God save souls,â he says.
For about 18 years, Jesse Bradley had rejected Christ and his salvation. He arrived at Dartmouth College âfocused on school, sports and friends, thinking if those three things went well, life would be good.â
Christ showed up anyhow during his freshman year.
In a World Religions class, the professor assigned reading the Bible.
Then a fellow track team member answered his questions about God.
In 1970, Joseph Kong walked through the jungle day and night for three days after communist forces took control of Kratie Province in Cambodia.
âDuring that time, I was so afraid of dying. I felt death,â Joseph said. âThat night I cried out to God. I promised, âIf You save me, I will worship and serve God.ââ
At the time, Cambodia was in the middle of a civil war, and many people lost their lives under the Khmer Rouge regime.Joseph grew up in a Catholic family and attended church, but as he grew older, he gradually drifted away from his faith.
After walking through the jungle for three days, he arrived in Phnom Penh, a city, and reunited with his family. However, as the war continued, he sometimes had to stay in a bunker to avoid rocket attacks.
âAt night, we slept inside the bunker for safety,â he said. âI was calling on the name of God.â
In March 1975, Joseph left for Bangkok, Thailand, with his family because of his work. After they left, the situation in Cambodia became even worse.
In June 1975, applied and was accepted as a refugee in the United States. He found a job in Salem, Oregon. Later, he served as an interpreter in church Cambodians in the United States.
One day, a missionary from Cambodia visited the church.
âJoe, the way you have been saved from the killing fields was not by accident,â he told him. âIt was Godâs plan for you.â
That night, Joseph realized… Read the rest: Back to the killing fields.
As she went into a tracheostomy surgery, the doctor told her, âSay goodbye to your voice because your voice is probably going to be gone after this surgery.â
Laurinda Bennett was staggered: âGone?â
âThereâs a chance it may come back.â
When she woke up from the surgery, she couldnât speak.
It was bleak, but at least she was surviving cancer.
Laurinda spent 2Â― weeks in ICU after her December 2025 surgery. Her voice was gone but she could walk. As she walked around the ICU, she realized all the other patients were bedridden and unconscious. She realized her own predicament was better than theirs.
Laurinda began to pray for the patients.
âLord, if you could just restore my voice back even so that they can hear the prayers that come out to bring healing to every unit that I walk by,â she prayed in her head.
âAfter I said that I heard a crackling in my throat,â she recalls. âIâm like, Can I talk? Can I talk? I was like, Hello hello hello.
âMy voice is back,â she realized.
And thatâs how Laurinda Bennett got her voice back after being told she wouldnât. The doctor did a double-take when she said âHi.â
âYouâre not supposed to be able to talk,â the doctor said.
Today Laurinda has another testimony to share to the world. First was her recovery from her divorce, then her cancer survival. She wanted to survive to take care of her daughter.
For weeks, doctors missed the diagnosis on her throat cancer, treating for Covid, strep and other diseases. By the time they figured out her vocal chords were swollen, the cancer was stage 3 and had spread to the rest of her body.
Laurinda was distressed. Already her divorce was enough for one person, she reasoned. But God gave her John 4:11: This sickness will not end in death.
Read the rest: Say goodbye to your voice, surgeon said
