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• Helping our children in a time of overwhelming anxiety

  US & Canada Family & Children

  5 mins read

  The suicide rate in the USA among 10-14-year-old children had nearly tripled in the last decade, while the rate for older teens increased by 76%. Children and teens worldwide can experience social isolation, health fears, and the uncertainty all around them, realizing that their parents don’t always know how to deal with difficult circumstances. All these can easily lead to depression. But we can provide real hope by helping them to rest in God.

• A cry for peacemakers in a time of violence

  US & Canada Religious Freedom Society & Culture

  4 mins read

  The United States is a nation gripped afresh by violence. Many of its people are struggling to feel, to understand, to see a way forward. US peace and reconciliation advocate, Jim Eaton, calls Christians to a better way, the way of Jesus; a way that is not partisan but peaceful, not livid but loving.

• It is a myth that in the Middle East Christians are only thriving in Israel

  Middle East Church & Missions Religious Freedom

  8 mins read

  The recent assertion by Israel's President Netanyahu, that his country is the sole thriving sanctuary for Christians in the Middle East, is a myth. Christianity has long thrived in the Middle East since the time of Jesus, and indigenous Christians continue to play significant roles in nations surrounding Israel. Within Israel, however, indigenous Evangelicals are treated like second-class citizens, even as Evangelicals outside of Israel are courted to support Netanyahu's purposes. This situation

• When narcissism becomes a virtue

  US & Canada Society & Culture

  7 mins read

  When a war threatens to destabilize the world because of the narcissistic ego of a powerful person, the narcissism of a leader pursuing peace is often the only antidote.