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Request YOUR copy today of Walking In His Commands: A Lenten Journey with Jesus. Article Description At least 3,919 people have been killed in recent protests in Iran, with some estimates placing the death toll as high as fifteen thousand, in what Foreign Policy calls “the greatest massacre in modern Iranian history.” The regime’s extraordinarily violent crackdown reflects an Islamist ideology wil...

Open Doors recently released its updated list of the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian. The top ten remained largely unchanged, with North Korea, Somalia, and Yemen continuing to hold the top three spots. However, Syria broke onto the list, rising from number eighteen last year to sixth in the latest iteration. However, that is not the case for Syrians in every part of the count...

Request YOUR copy today of Walking In His Commands: A Lenten Journey with Jesus.  Article Description According to a Free Press article published this week by geopolitical analysts Matt Pottinger and Roy Eakin, “If its first days are anything to go by, 2026 may end up the most pivotal year in geopolitics since 1989, a hinge point that began in a moment of geopolitical calm but ended with the coll...

Request YOUR copy today of Walking In His Commands: A Lenten Journey with Jesus. Article Description There is anger on both sides of the aisle this morning. The right is angry with former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after they refused to comply yesterday with a congressional subpoena to testify in an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The left is angry wit...

President Trump recently told reporters at the White House, “We are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not, because if we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we’re not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor.” Why such interest in a sparsely inhabited island three thousand miles from the US? There is ultimately only one answer to our perennial qu...

It was a busy weekend for some subsets of American society. If you’re a college football fan, you likely watched Miami and Indiana win their playoff games. If you’re a pro football fan, you had five games to watch, including the Bears’ comeback for the ages Saturday night, with one more contest tonight. While I watched every football game I mentioned, I have not seen even one of the movies or TV s...

Subscribe to "The Focus" newsletter: DenisonForum.org/Newsletters In today's unique edition of The Daily Article p odcast, we’re covering America's influence in Greenland, an updated food pyramid, and the latest on the House vote to extend Obamacare subsidies.  Then, we'll take a deeper look at the shooting in Minnesota this past Wednesday where an ICE agent shot at killed a wo...

Article Description I have followed Philip Yancey’s work for years and consider him one of the most thoughtful and authentic writers in the evangelical world. It was therefore devastating to learn yesterday that he engaged in an affair with a married woman for eight years and is now retiring from writing and speaking. In The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, Tim Keller famously wrote...

Deadly clashes have erupted in Iran as demonstrations sparked by anger over the rising cost of living entered their second week. Unlike those in past years, these protests are seeking regime change and taking down regime symbols, posters, and statues. More than two thousand citizens have been arrested, and at least thirty-four protesters have been killed. Yet recognizing the justice of regime chan...

A woman protesting against the Venezuelan government in 2021 was disfigured when military forces tossed boiling water on her. Yesterday, she took part in demonstrations in New York City, where she begged a Manhattan federal judge to lock up dictator Nicolás Maduro for as long as possible. Watching US politicians react to the news regarding Venezuela along such starkly partisan lines demonstrates t...

Early Saturday morning, President Trump announced that the US carried out a large-scale strike against Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife. He then stated that the US is “going to run” Venezuela until a “proper transition can take place.” Maduro and his wife arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn late Saturday. They are expected to appear in federal...

“America has become a country of cynics. At least, that’s what studies show.” That delightful thought is the opening line to Lauren Jackson’s recent profile on hope for the New York Times. And if a declaration of cynicism sounds to you like a strange way to introduce a call to hope, you’re not wrong. Unfortunately, neither is she. However, the path she describes is fundamentally different from the...

As you begin 2026, we want to highly recommend First15 as daily resource for your walk with the Lord. Article Description Roughly one million people packed into New York City’s Times Square last night to watch a crystal ball drop from One Times Square as midnight approached. For the first time ever, it was relit and dropped again at approximately 12:04 am E.T. in anticipation of America’s 250th an...

PLEASE ,   Consider a gift today BY MIDNIGHT to support this ministry of discerning news differently.  Article Description One hundred years ago, a seminary professor in Pennsylvania had the audacity to claim that by 2025, people would use a pocket-sized apparatus for communications to see and hear each other without being in the same room. Everyone knows that the future is unknowable. What we som...

Consider a gift today to support this ministry of discerning news differently.  Article Description Do you sometimes find yourself feeling anxious without an apparent explanation? Are there days when things are good in your personal world, but that world is somehow not enough? Let’s consider a juxtaposition. The Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker similarly cites data showing that “global life expe...

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were “getting a lot closer, maybe very close” to an agreement to end the war in Ukraine. Today begins what some are calling “Twixmas,” “Dead Week,” or “Feral Week”—the stretch between Christmas and New Year’s Eve when, as one journalist reports, “We get the urge to take off and tune out, and our outstanding proje...

Consider a gift today to support this ministry of discerning news differently.   Article Description I’m always a little sad on the day after Christmas when the world seems to return to “normal” so quickly. But return it does. We woke up this morning to news that the US carried out a strike against Islamic State militants in Nigeria yesterday. President Trump said the military action was in respo...

Did you know that for Santa Claus to reach an estimated 238 million homes worldwide last night, he had to visit 1,944 per second? This week we’re taking Christmas in the order it was revealed: to Mary, then Joseph, then the shepherds, then the Magi. We’re aligning their experiences with the promised Son as “Prince of Peace, Everlasting Father, Mighty God, and Wonderful Counselor” (Isaiah 9:6 in re...

Will you observe Christmas tomorrow? If so, according to a new Gallup survey, you’re in the majority: 88 percent of Americans will join you. Will you attend church services today or tomorrow? If so, you’re in the minority: only 47 percent of Americans will join you, down from 64 percent in 2010. Now consider two other recent Gallup headlines: “US Mental Health Ratings Continue to Worsen” and “Amer...

Article Description President Trump announced plans yesterday afternoon for a new fleet of warships, to be known as the “Golden Fleet.” In an address from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, he said the new battleships would be “one hundred times more powerful than any battleship ever built.” Peace is often defined as the absence of conflict. However, there’s a pathway to peace that transcends our c...

Consider a gift today to support this ministry of discerning news differently.  Article Description There are times when sinners seem to get away with their sins. For example, the Wall Street Journal tells us about the scourge of airline passengers claiming disabilities so they can board in wheelchairs and skip the lines. If no wheelchairs are available when they arrive, they are miraculously “hea...

Last Saturday, a gunman killed two students and wounded nine at Brown University’s School of Engineering. Two days later, an MIT physics professor was fatally shot outside his home; police later announced the suspect in both shootings was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility. Tragedies like these strip away the comfort of believing in belief itself and press us to confront whether our fa...

Denison Forum is a fully donor-supported ministry.  Consider a gift today to support this ministry of discerning news differently.  Article Description President Trump defended his handling of the economy during a rare prime-time speech last night. However, he did not address the headline-generating fallout from his recent very negative comments regarding the tragic deaths of Rob and Michele Reine...

During Jelly Roll’s recent conversation on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Rogan said to him, “You’re a totally new human being.” Jelly Roll replied, “This is a brand new heart, Joe. You know what I mean? It might be cloaked as the old one, but God touched it. It’s a whole new heart, baby. It’s a different heart.” In a day when user reviews are the currency of commerce, where people want to know if a particu...

Article Description “Ahmed was driven by his sentiment, conscience, and humanity.” This is how the father of a “hero” who responded to the Hanukkah massacre in Australia explained his son’s actions. You and I may not be required to attack an attacker to wrest their rifle from them or shield a loved one and die in their place. But we have platforms of influence we can use to condemn the scourge of...