Opinion

• Reviewing the shocking exposé into pornography dictators and profiteers

  Europe Society & Culture Family & Children

  7 mins read

  A 2025 book investigating the power behind the commercialization of pornography argue that "people don’t use pornography: it uses us. And you don’t have to watch it to be one of its victims." This review affirms the authors' critique of pornography and those who control it as a dangerously powerful, globalized industry that is (re)shaping desire, relationships, and social norms. Followers of Jesus need to guard ourselves against this attack on our relationships and our souls.

• Barbarians are at the literary gates once more and missionaries may yet save civilization

  US & Canada Church & Missions

  6 mins read

  Christian missionaries have carried the Bible and have taught people how to read it, shaping the entire modern world through literacy projects. As we face radical literacy disruption by AI, missionaries may yet be a balwark against knowledge loss once more.

• Remembering the forgetten followers in a forgotten war

  Africa Religious Freedom

  5 mins read

  Sudan's civil war continues to rage after three years of devastating conflict and Sudan's two million Christians face particular peril. Yet this conflict is largely overlooked compared to other conflict zones. It seems to be a crisis too complex, too distant, and too African to hold the Western gaze. God sees, however.

• A testimony of leading faithfully across oceans and cultures

  Africa Church & Missions

  8 mins read

  Trizenia September is the first woman to serve as director on a GBA vessel. She prefers to not dwell on that but instead on that our realities do not define who we are and we need to build resilience.