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Prayer Cross
This comes from the “truth is stranger than fiction” file.


Secret History of America
This sounds like some outrageously revisionist history. “Director Oliver Stone’s upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries ‘Secret History of America” promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler ‘in context.’ ‘Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy — these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history,’ Stone told reporters at the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual press tour in Pasadena.”


John Piper’s Q&A at Angola Prison
Here is Q&A with John Piper at Angola Prison.


Al-Qaeda’s New Strategy
“Al-Qaeda’s newfound vitality is the product of a fresh strategy that plays to its networking strength and compensates for its numerical weakness. In contrast to its plan on Sept. 11, which was to deliver a knock-out blow to the United States, al-Qaeda’s leadership has now adopted a ‘death by a thousand cuts’ approach.”


  • New and Notable Christian Books for August 2026

    August is often a fairly quiet month for new book releases, sitting as it does between the busy spring and fall seasons. However, there were lots of excellent books published this month, and I’m glad to share some of them with you.

  • A La Carte (August 28)

    Are you losing heart? / Why we don’t have insane asylums anymore / Walking alongside parents of LGBTQ+ identifying children / The England I knew is gone / Learning from the Jason Arday tragedy / What is a liturgy, and should we have one? / Book and Kindle deals.

  • A La Carte (August 27)

    Christian, your suffering isn’t pointless / What did Jesus mean by “cut off your hand”? / The parent blaming generation / Seasons of marriage / I refuse to give up printed books / Why good stories have bad examples / and more.

  • A La Carte (August 26)

    Help! My child is entering puberty / Lindsay Clancy and the problem of therapy culture / What drives parents to frustration / The abortion pioneer who became a pro-life champion / What your church owns is not ultimately yours / Free stuff / and more.

  • A La Carte (August 25)

    US missionary freed after 9 months’ captivity / Sharing suffering / The Lord will keep your children’s lives / The real reason Iran is persecuting Christians / Dinesh D’Souza’s case against Calvinism, answered / Canadian military chaplains can’t mention God in public / Do religious families actually have more kids?