Monday, June 30, 2025
In the beginning of this term of the United States Supreme Court, many observers suggested that it might be a quiet year. It didn’t turn out that way. By the time the court ended its term just days ago, it ended with thunder and lightning. It ended with a series of decisions, and, of course, we ...
June 30, 2025
Friday, June 27, 2025
Well, my guess is that a good number of you were at one or more graduation ceremonies or services over the course of the last several weeks. There’s been a very interesting development along those lines. It used to be that there were, in the main, two graduation opportunities, graduation from hi...
June 27, 2025
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The BriefingThursday, June 26, 2025
In politics, there are earthquakes and there are earthquakes. What took place yesterday in New York City is a very significant earthquake. It looks like the Democrats are now poised to nominate Zohran Mamdani, an open democratic socialist candidate. A young Muslim born in Uganda, he is going to be the...
June 26, 2025
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Understandably, international events have really set the agenda for much of our conversation in recent days. That’s going to continue, because even as there is something like a ceasefire in effect, and for that, we are thankful between Israel and Iran, and even as Israel claims that it has been ...
June 25, 2025
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Events continued to unfold just over the last couple of days, particularly in the Middle East, and we’re looking specifically at the military action taken by Israel against Iran, retaliation by Iran against Israel, the entry of the United States and our armed forces into the picture on Sunday mo...
June 24, 2025
Monday, June 23, 2025
The tables can turn very, very quickly. That’s exactly what happened on Saturday. Saturday, US time; Sunday morning, Iran time when we now know American military forces undertook an attack on nuclear facilities in Iran. It was the first major head-to-head confrontation in military terms between ...
June 23, 2025
Friday, June 20, 2025
There are all kinds of interesting developments in the media stories that come from here and there. And a lot of them appear to be interesting, but we need to focus on the ones that are, not only interesting, but important. And the important ones should be of interest to us and may well, when it comes...
June 20, 2025
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States sided with the state of Tennessee. That state had overwhelmingly adopted legislation that prohibits so-called transgender treatments for minors, that is to say children and adolescents under the age of 18. The state of Tennessee thus became one of about...
June 19, 2025
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
We all know that every day brings a battle of the headlines, but we also know as Christians in particular that there are fundamental issues underneath the headlines. And sometimes these don’t make the headlines at all. In one strange case, one big issue did make the headlines. It’s an arti...