By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Monday, September 21, 2026 Dylan Mandell, 23, is a social media influencer who was diagnosed with cancer for the fourth time in 2025. | YouTube/Dylan Mandell Despite being diagnosed with cancer for the fourth time in the last four years, Christian social media influencer Dylan Mandell says he’s holding on […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Monday, September 21, 2026 Cindy Clemishire speaks outside the Texas Supreme Court in Austin, Texas, on Sept. 17, 2026. | Contributed The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily halted a lower court’s dismissal of Cindy Clemishire’s defamation lawsuit against Gateway Church, founder Robert Morris and other church leaders, pausing the case […]
For couples struggling with infertility, in vitro fertilization is often presented as the best and even only next step to having a child. Even more, what may have once been geared toward women who wanted to wait later in life to start a family is now heavily marketed to women in their 20s and early […]
Brought to you by Key Points Gen Z’s return to movie theaters points to a hunger for shared, embodied experiences in a screen-heavy age. Convenience can be helpful, but it cannot fully replace presence, community, and gathering with others. God created people for relationship, not isolation, and shared experiences can remind us of that design. […]
When we think about loving others, we instantly assume that it’s all about feelings and emotions. It’s not. It’s about actions and choices. C.S. Lewis once wrote that you shouldn’t waste time worrying whether you really love someone. If you are called to love them, then you should simply act as if you love them. […]
By Dennis Lennox, CP Contributor Sunday, September 20, 2026 Oregon Trail Memorial Episcopal Church in Eden, Wyoming. | Dennis Lennox EDEN, Wyoming — Along U.S. Highway 191 stands a little log church that looks as though it has occupied this windswept landscape since the days of wagon trains. Oregon Trail Memorial Episcopal Church is not […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Friday, September 18, 2026 Alan Ritchson stars in “Ordinary Angels.” | Lionsgate A month after suggesting President Donald Trump was blocking the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Christian actor and “Reacher” star Alan Ritchson said studios have been calling on him to stay quiet on politics. Ritchson, 43, made […]
Brought to you by Key Points The USS Abraham Lincoln’s extended deployment highlights the physical, emotional, and spiritual cost carried by service members. War is not only a matter of strategy, politics, or victory; it is measured in human lives, grief, separation, and long-term wounds. Christians can support troops by praying for them, honoring their […]
In 1787, Elizabeth Powel—a civic leader in Philadelphia—stopped Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Constitutional Convention and asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic,” Franklin replied, “if you can keep it.” Franklin’s remark is worth recalling as we remember Constitution Day on Sept. 17, the day delegates […]
By Leonardo Blair, Senior Reporter Thursday, September 17, 2026 Christian actor Alan Ritchson delivers a message on sin from his InstaChurch ministry in June 2026. | YouTube/InstaChurch Hollywood actor Alan Ritchson, who founded the faith-focused video ministry and YouTube channel InstaChurch, has announced that he and his wife, Catherine, are getting a divorce after three […]