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Story by Fred Pry. With so much online today and more and more becoming accessible through our phones, kids and cell phone addiction has become a common problem. Recent studies have cited digital addiction among youth as a global concern, with 60% between the ages of 5-16 exhibiting behaviors indicative of technology dependency. When not intentionally addressed, excessive digital engagement can negatively affect our children in profound ways without them even realizing it. Here are five bad habits cell phone addiction can cause in kids, and five biblical solutions to help them unplug. 1. Instant gratification Many kids today have instant access to their favorite…

Story by Jenny Rapson. Dear Son, I wish you knew. Thirteen years ago you made me a mom. And I wish you knew how much I loved that time. And now you’re taller than I am. How can this be? I know I’ve told you before that you were an easy baby, that your Daddy and I thought we were the BEST of parents. It’s not until your little sister arrived almost three years later that we realized, NOPE—we just had a really easy kid the first time around. Oops. But there are a few things I imagine I haven’t told you about…

Story by Lee Habeed. Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a date chosen to align with the fateful day back in 1945 when Allied troops liberated the worst of the Nazi deathcamps: Aushwitz-Birkenau. Approximately 960,000 Jews were murdered there, and nearly 1.1 million lives were cut short in all. But amidst the tragedy and horror associated with the Nazi genocide, there were stories of hope and courage, too. One involved an American GI who helped save 200 Jewish-American GI’s from near certain death.  His name was Master Sergeant Roderick “Roddie” Edmonds, and the most remarkable part of his story wasn’t…

OPINION: Kaeley Harms Sometimes the conservative refrain, “there’s a war on men,” functions less as a diagnosis and more as a gatekeeper, one that prevents even the most measured, necessary criticism from entering the conversation at all. Any attempt to examine male failure, cultural rot, or institutional responsibility is waved away as feminist hysteria or cultural Marxism before it can even clear its throat. Earlier this week, I stumbled upon a Christian Post article titled “Is It Always the Women?” It immediately set off my internal alarms. In the article, the author argues that the recent decline of women in church attendance…

On January 18, 2026, a group of protesters entered Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, during a Sunday worship service, chanting slogans against immigration enforcement and disrupting the congregation’s time of prayer and praise. Former CNN anchor Don Lemon, now an independent journalist, was present, livestreaming the event. Twelve days later, on January 30, federal authorities arrested Lemon in Los Angeles on charges including conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil rights and interfering with freedom of religion under federal law known as the FACE Act (18 U.S.C. § 248), specifically for allegedly interfering by force or obstruction with someone’s First Amendment…

Story by Emily Belz Christian author Philip Yancey said in an emailed statement to CT that he had engaged in an affair with a married woman for eight years and would retire from writing and speaking. Yancey started his writing career in 1971 at Campus Life magazine, which became a part of CT a few years later. He wrote for CT for decades, reporting and later becoming a regular columnist and editor at large. His books, including What’s So Amazing About Grace?, have sold more than 15 million copies. He often wrote about faith in the face of pain and suffering. Yancey, 76, has been married to…

Story by Tré Goins-Phillips | CBN When she was just 16 years old, Fox Varian, a female, underwent “top surgery,” a transgender procedure in which her perfectly healthy breasts were removed. Now at 22 years old — and no longer identifying in contrast to her physiology — she has become the first detransitioner to successfully win her malpractice lawsuit against those who irrevocably altered her body. On Jan. 30, Varian was awarded $2 million, and a jury in Westchester, New York, held both her psychologist, Kenneth Einhorn, and plastic surgeon, Simon Chin, legally liable for the so-called “medical care” they gave…

OPINION: by Dr Lee Warren. I’ve spent more than 25 years operating on the human brain, changing lives by making precise, structural interventions in the nervous system. I’ve spent just as long coping with my own brain, which was reshaped by a series of life-altering events. While deployed as a combat surgeon during the Iraq War, I learned firsthand how trauma reshapes the brain under threat, and I returned home struggling with PTSD. Then, as a father, I learned what it means to grieve the loss of a child in ways no medical training can prepare you for. Those experiences…

Story by Surinder Kaur  India’s move from 11th to 12th place on an annual ranking of countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian may appear to signal marginal improvement, but church leaders and rights advocates say it masks historic highs of persecution in the country. In Open Doors’ World Watch List (WWL) 2026, which ranks the 50 countries where Christians face the most severe persecution, India slipped one place, but its overall persecution score remained unchanged at 84. Open Doors notes that rankings are relative and often change because conditions worsen elsewhere rather than because they improve in…

Story By Jessica Mouser A post from an X account explaining that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) celebrates Eve’s decision to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil has gone viral, with 1.9 million views as of this writing. The post has drawn strong criticism from some Christians, who say it represents Satan’s point of view. “In the LDS Church, we do not see Eve eating the forbidden fruit as a mistake or even a sin,” said a Jan. 27 post from the account Dem Saints. “To the contrary, we celebrate her courage and wisdom to…

Story By Samantha Kamman. Despite rumblings of a Christian resurgence among young adults in the United Kingdom, recent surveys purporting to find high levels of religiousness among youth may be misleading, according to the Pew Research Center. Pew, a nonpartisan fact tank, published an analysis on Jan. 23 concluding that most surveys indicating rising Christian identity and church attendance among young adults in the U.K. were opt-in surveys, typically commissioned by faith-based groups.  “Surveys using random samples of the population do not show clear evidence of a Christian resurgence,” the analysis stated. “In such surveys, you can only participate if the researchers randomly…

Story by Anugrah Kumar: The Taliban has codified slavery and formalized a class-based justice system in Afghanistan through a newly approved criminal procedure code signed by its supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada. Legal experts and international rights groups say the new law strips away due process and institutionalizes privilege based on gender, religion and social status. “The Taliban has now approved the return of slavery in Afghanistan. We must defund the Taliban,” Jim Risch, R-Idaho, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote on X. “Not only is it counter to US interests and an affront to all military members who…

Story By Joe Hawkins/Prophecy Recon. When most people imagine the Beast system, they picture something sudden–a dramatic flip of a switch where the Antichrist unveils a fully formed global control grid. Scripture gives a different impression: a system that already has scaffolding, already has “rails,” already has the plumbing installed–so that when the final authority arrives, the mechanism is ready. That’s why the most important question isn’t, “Has Revelation 13 happened yet?” but rather: Are the enabling systems being built now? In recent years, the world has accelerated into a new governance paradigm that increasingly treats human autonomy as a…

Story by Brent Buchanan/Daily Signal Texas has accounted for 25% of all ICE arrests since enforcement ramped up. The state has processed thousands upon thousands of deportations. No riots. No mob violence against federal officers. No churches stormed during worship services. Minnesota represents less than 1% of ICE arrests. And Minneapolis is on fire. How do you explain that gap? The answer has nothing to do with immigration policy and everything to do with where Americans get their information. What the Polling Actually Shows At Cygnal, we recently surveyed voters on whether the Trump administration’s deportation efforts have gone too…

Story by Mead Gruver A Utah woman who warned that the end times were approaching and is accused of illegally taking her four young children abroad in defiance of a custody order has been arrested in Croatia, authorities said Tuesday. Elleshia Seymour, 35, was charged in Salt Lake County in December with four counts of custodial interference for removing the children from Utah despite lacking legal custody. Croatia’s foreign ministry confirmed by email that she was arrested earlier this month and is being held on suspicion of violating children’s rights. The children have been placed in foster care in Croatia as their father, Kendall Seymour, works…

OPINION: David Robertson Belgium, France, Portugal, Canada, Australia and the UK have all recently recognised the state of Palestine. The case for doing so appears strong. The war in Gaza is creating some horrific conditions. If recognising Palestine as a state will help bring peace who would not argue for it? In addition to this even before the formation of the state of Israel after the Second World War, it was agreed that there should be a two-state solution – with one state being mainly Jewish and the other mainly Palestinian. Surely now is the time to implement that to…