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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelcy announce their engagement Aug 27, 2025

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged. If this news is not newsworthy to you, you may be in the minority. At this writing, their post has been liked 28,099,308 times. How does a stranger’s engagement concern us? God created us for community and relationship. It is why we instinctively care about celebrity engagements and other people-centric stories, no matter how odd and irrelevant to our lives they seem. Our all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful Father cares about every dimension of every life even more passionately than we do. And when he is Lord of every part of our lives, he is able to bring his best to every part of our lives.

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Cracker Barrel, Chili’s, and the Dallas Cowboys: Brand promises and the power of personal transformation Aug 26, 2025

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Cracker Barrel’s new logo has been called a “textbook case of how not to rebrand,” losing touch with the quirks that made people love their brand and erasing what it did best. By contrast, Chili’s has enjoyed a “corporate turnaround for the ages” by simplifying operations and focusing on its core. And though the Dallas Cowboys have failed to win on the field for decades, their mastery of the “attention economy” keeps them the world’s most valuable sports franchise. Unlike brands that thrive on publicity, the Christian “brand” depends on transformed lives—Jesus changes only what we yield to him.

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Texas Senate passes redistricting bill, California counters Aug 25, 2025

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The Texas Senate passed a controversial bill over the weekend, creating five new GOP-leaning districts, following a similar Texas House vote earlier in the week. In response to the Texas redistricting bill, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the “Election Rigging Response Act,” which would transform five Republican seats into districts that heavily favor Democrats. Election districts have been redrawn over the years through legislative procedures such as we are seeing in Texas and through court actions. Both parties have engaged in the practice as a means of increasing their political power. But is such partisanship what Mr. Madison and the Founders intended?

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The life and legacy of Dr. James Dobson Aug 22, 2025

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Dr. James Dobson passed away yesterday morning at the age of eighty-nine. Best known as the founder of the media ministry Focus on the Family, he was an advisor to five US presidents and one of the best-known Christian leaders of his time. Many are offering profiles of his life and tributes to his legacy today. However, there is a less-noted dimension of Dr. Dobson’s story that relates to us all, regardless of his direct influence on our lives and families.

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Would you spend $50,000 to produce a smarter baby? Aug 21, 2025

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Parents in Silicon Valley are spending up to $50,000 for new genetic-testing services that include promises to screen embryos for high IQ. In related news, a Chinese scientist who, six years ago, created the world’s first gene-edited babies has now set up a company in the US he’s calling the “Walmart of gene editing” to produce high-IQ babies. Moral questions abound, of course, but here’s what no one seems to be asking: Are the embryos being tested and modified human? No one is asking because the answer is so obvious. And this fact points to the truth I want to highlight today.

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Egypt’s government threatens world’s oldest monastery Aug 20, 2025

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St. Catherine’s Monastery, 275 miles from Cairo in the depths of the Sinai desert, is the oldest continually inhabited Christian monastery in the world. In May, an Egyptian court issued a ruling that allows the state to control what is and is not allowed at St. Catherine’s, stripping the monks of all legal authority. The government has already taken control over academic access to the site and continues to undermine its autonomy. With enough pressure, the monks may be forced to abandon the ancient monastery altogether. However, we don’t have to persecute the church to fall prey to the temptation of religion that competes against a genuine relationship with Jesus.

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Ending the war in Ukraine and a ceasefire in Gaza? Aug 19, 2025

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While European leaders were gathered at the White House, Mr. Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin to begin arrangements for a meeting between Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelensky, to be followed by a trilateral summit including himself. In other news, we learned yesterday that Hamas has accepted an updated proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza. Sources say the proposal is a partial deal for a sixty-day ceasefire, the release of ten live hostages, eighteen deceased hostages, and the release of Palestinian prisoners. Both stories point to a common denominator: our inability to resolve human conflict through human agency.

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Was the Alaska summit a success? Aug 18, 2025

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Last Friday, the world watched history being made as US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska. However, the question after the summit concluded was, What history? Your opinion of Mr. Trump prior to the Alaska meeting is likely your opinion this morning: you are either giving him the benefit of the doubt on the summit, or you are doubting its benefit. The cultural origins of postmodern relativism and our broader post-truth culture go back much further in American history, with consequences that affect us all today.

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Should Christians watch “KPop Demon Hunters”? Aug 15, 2025

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President Trump’s meeting today with Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to dominate headlines. However, as of this morning, any attempt to say what that outcome will be is, at best, an educated guess. So instead, I’d like to focus today on a subject that is far less important to the future of our world but, perhaps, of even greater significance to the state of our culture: KPop Demon Hunters. The record-breaking film contains some surprising biblical themes and points us to important conversations we should all be having today.

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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones overcame Stage 4 cancer: Why it’s hard to trust God in hard places Aug 14, 2025

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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has battled stage 4 melanoma for a decade. Yesterday we learned that Mr. Jones was diagnosed in June 2010. He underwent two lung surgeries and two lymph node surgeries and says his life was saved by an experimental trial and a drug called Programmed Cell Death Protein 1. When we face cancer or other challenging conditions and circumstances, trusting God in hard places can be hard to do. Why is this?

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