1) “The Real Battle for America: After 250 years, America needs the church more than ever” (Jack Hibbs, Decision)
From the article — When was the last time you truly labored in prayer for this nation? I’m talking about heartfelt, persistent, faith-filled prayer. That’s the kind of prayer God calls us to. We are told in 1 Timothy 2:1-2 to pray “for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.” If you want to see change in your country, start on your knees.
Prayer is essential, but it’s not the end of our calling. We are also commanded to take a stand. In Jude 3, we’re urged to “contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.” That word contend means to struggle, to wrestle, to fight for what matters.
We’re not called to hide. We’re not called to blend in. We’re called to speak up, even when it’s unpopular. The early church turned the world upside down, not because they were polite and quiet, but because they were bold and filled with the Spirit of God.
Look at Elijah. He didn’t just pray that his people would follow the Lord. He stood on Mount Carmel and called down fire. He didn’t shrink back from confronting evil. And neither should we.
2) “The Right’s Nick Fuentes Problem — and Tucker Carlson’s Role in Mainstreaming It” (Tyler Rowley, American Spectator)
From the article — Shapiro begins by defining what this fight is not about. It is not about free speech, and it is not about “cancellation.” Fuentes has every legal right to speak, he says, and Tucker has every right to interview him. Shapiro stresses that he has opposed de-platforming Fuentes, even though he considers Fuentes “odious and despicable.” Free speech, properly understood, is freedom from government coercion — not a right to be promoted, signal-boosted, and flattered by major conservative platforms.
What this is about, Shapiro argues, is drawing moral lines. Conservatives once understood that refusing to promote certain ideas — Nazism, open racism, calls for political violence — was not “cancellation,” it was sanity. Choosing not to launder those ideas for a mass audience is itself an exercise of free speech and free association.
To make the stakes clear, Shapiro walks through Fuentes’ own words. Fuentes has encouraged followers to “kill, rape and die” for him. He mocks Jim Crow as no big deal, claims white people are “justified” in being racist and avoiding black Americans, celebrates “Hitler Friday,” questions the Holocaust in cute “cookie” analogies, and repeatedly blames “the Jews” for every war and for secretly running the country. He fantasizes about executing “perfidious Jews” and other alleged enemies once his movement “takes power.”
This is not edgy trolling. It is explicit bigotry and totalitarian fantasizing, wrapped in pseudo-Christian rhetoric and aimed at alienated young men.
Related articles of note: “Why the Two Parties Have Diverged on Fighting Anti-Semitism” (Seth Mandel)…“Tucker Carlson aims to poison us with hatred — but Donald Trump stands in the way” (Rich Lowry, New York Post)…“If Conservatives Do Not Immediately Sever Ties With Tucker Carlson, He Will Drag The Party Down With Him” (Olivier Melnick, Harbinger’s Daily)…“Nick + Tucker: A Two-Man Unite The Right Rally” (Rod Dreher)
3) “Why A Pro-Life Witness Outside Abortion Businesses?” (Denny Hartford, Vital Signs Ministries)
From the article — Because my honor as a Christian is at stake. Where such brazen, violent injustice is occurring, how can I refuse the opportunity to testify against it? Think about it — what does it mean to the reputation of the Church (not to mention her sense of moral priority) if children are brutally murdered in our own neighborhoods without us even raising our voices in principled protest? How much is our evangelism and discipleship tarnished and weakened if we do not take seriously such charges as Jeremiah 22:3, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.’” And Isaiah 1:16-17, “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean. Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil. Learn to do good. Seek justice. Reprove the ruthless. Defend the orphan. Plead for the widow.”
Alas, fewer and fewer American Christians nowadays bother to go to abortion mills to pray and give pro-life witness. That’s an ominous warning of how far we have been cowed by the world around us. We have become indifferent, callous, distracted, and wimpy. Nevertheless, the grace of God remains available to us — grace that forgives and cleanses, grace that yields wisdom and strength, grace that yet can bring personal and cultural revolution.
Our marching orders are quite clear. We read them in the Scriptures already listed. And we read them in many others. Psalm 82:3,4: “Vindicate the weak and fatherless. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.” Proverbs 24: 11,12: “Deliver those who are being taken away to death, and those who are staggering to slaughter, Oh hold them back.” James 1:27: “Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”
Giving public witness to the sanctity of life in this darkened and depraved culture is not the easiest thing. But it remains extremely high in the values expressed by our Lord. And that’s why we engage in a compassionate but firm opposition to the barbaric killing of the little ones and why, by the grace of God, we will continue to do so. Wanna’ come join us?
4) “Stop mincing words” (Michael C. Hurley, American Thinker)
From the article — The most depressing thing about waking up in the aftermath of Tuesday’s electoral wipeout is not the prospect of communism coming to New York or the normalization of political assassination culture in Virginia, but having to listen to the anodyne analysis of conservative commentators about “why we lost” and the “lessons” that Republican candidates need to learn going forward. To hear Tony Kinnett of the Daily Signal tell it, Winsome Earle-Sears would be the governor of Virginia today if only she had talked more about affordability and energy costs.
Mr. Kinnett is hardly the only conservative pundit seemingly unaware of what time it is. Fox News subjected viewers to a steady stream of political quackery about how candidates need to focus more closely on “kitchen table” issues the next time around.
No, they don’t.
No one, at this late hour, should be unaware of what the stakes are. We are in a spiritual war between good and evil, between the forces of order and the agents of chaos. Full stop. So let’s say so, clearly, without apology or embarrassment. Tell people they’re in a war, and a great many of them will show up to vote. Tell them they’re in a debate over monetary policy and energy development initiatives, and most of them will hit the snooze button and sleep in.
The forces of evil do not fail to understand our program. They are not casting about for a better balance of trade. They know they’re in a war for power, and they intend to win it, which is why they fight so passionately. Abortion isn’t an issue for them. It’s a sacrament. Climate change isn’t a scientific debate. It is a religious world-view that gives their lives meaning and purpose. Politics for the left isn’t an intellectual sport to be conducted within the polite parameters of free speech. It’s an unholy crusade to be won by any means necessary, including censorship, lawfare, defamation, perjury, conspiracy, insurrection and assassination.
5) “Europe’s Urban Decline Exposed” (John MacGhlionn, American Spectator)
From the article — Twenty years ago, Europe still felt whole. Streets were still. Nights were calm. Many slept without worry. You could wander Marseille’s streets without a thought or lose yourself in Venice’s narrow lanes without a trace of fear. Today, that sense of sanity feels like an artifact from an ancient time. The latest World Safety Index report confirms what most already sense. Europe is no longer secure. France and Italy — once the crown jewels of the continent — now rank below Rwanda and Bangladesh for public safety.
And yet, the political class keeps pretending all is well. They talk about green revolutions and digital rights while the public buys pepper spray.
Once vibrant districts now vibrate with dread. Riots erupt on cue; knife attacks barely draw a headline. The “City of Light” has dimmed to a nervous glow. And Italy, the land that once gave the world law and order, now seems to live without much of either. Tourists still pose by the ruins of the past, unaware that the present is crumbling. Only six in 10 Italians say they feel safe walking alone at night. The country that once ruled empires can no longer rule its own streets.
What unites both nations is more than geography — it’s a shared failure of courage. Paris and Rome, like London, Dublin, Brussels, and Stockholm, have absorbed massive waves of immigration from North Africa and the Middle East. Is it a coincidence that these once-respectable cities now rank among the most violent in Europe? That their streets, once defined by culture and civility, are now defined by rapes, stabbings, and gang wars?
Other Recommended Articles for the Weekend
* “Mississippi Law Enforcement Caught Working with the Cartel — 20 Officers Indicted for Aiding Drug Smuggling into America” (Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit)
* “Colleges are teaching Gen Z to love socialism: After years of classrooms romanticizing socialism and demonizing capitalism, young Americans are taking that ideology straight to the ballot box.” (Emily Sturge, Campus Reform)
* “Does the Democrats’ Chaos Strategy Work?” (Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness)
* “Sudan and the Moral Bankruptcy of the Modern Left. To the progressive West, suffering acquires meaning only when it can be traced to guilt. Without that connection, empathy falters.” (Ali Bordbar Jahantighi, European Conservative)
* “Democrats’ naïve view of Islamists: ‘They’re just like me! They hate America!’” (Glen K. Beaton, Aspen Beat)