James MacDonald’s PTSD goes on trial as he se eks to avoid prison

One hundred Jewish orphans who initially escaped to Israel at the height of the war in Ukraine were forced to flee again for their safety as Hamas fired rockets into Israel after launching its Oct. 7 assault on civilian communities near the Gaza border.

House Speaker Mike Johnson was elected as the 56th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday by a 220-209 vote. Here are five interesting facts about the new speaker whose election is being celebrated by many conservative Christians.

A California judge ruled Wednesday that Harvest Bible Chapel founder James MacDonald's diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder makes him eligible for a mental health diversion program that would keep him out of prison for allegedly attacking a 59-year-old woman.

Richard Land writes that the Just War Theory was never intended to "justify" war. Instead, it tries to bring war under the sway of justice as understood by Christians and to ensure that war, when it does occur, is hedged about by limits that mitigate its barbarity.

Former pastor and discernment blogger Jordan Daniel Hall, who was removed from ministry last year amid scandal, says being a pastor is an "awful existence" and he would never want to return to the pulpit.

Israeli Christian leader Shadi Khalloul, director of strategic partnerships at the Alma Research and Education Center, tells The Christian Post that Satan is at work through the terrorist group Hamas and the ever-increasing threat of Hezbollah, arguing that there cannot be peace in the region until both forces are defeated.

A network of pro-life pregnancy centers is defending its ministry after more than a dozen Democratic attorneys general wrote a letter condemning pro-life pregnancy centers for spreading "misinformation and harm."