Darla Jean Pickett

TravelZoo's $1 airport lounge voucher for delayed passengers isn't a luxury perk. It's a basic dignity that airlines deliberately stripped from working families when they invented basic economy fares and called it consumer choice.

Church messaging that reframes abortion as always murder is creating fear in pregnant women who need medical care. Miscarriage, ectopic pregnancies, and maternal complications are suffering when patients distrust their doctors.

Pew's spring report on church attendance shows another quiet year of decline. The numbers are smaller this year than last. The deeper story is what the people who stayed are doing.

Pew's longitudinal data on faith transmission across generations tracks a pattern that scripture itself warned about. The pattern is not new. The work to interrupt it is the work in front of every Christian family.

Across denominations and across regions, ordinary congregations are reporting a pattern of adult conversions that is not appearing in the headline religious-affiliation surveys. The pattern is small. The pattern is real. The pattern is the work.

Kathie Lee Gifford says God made her famous specifically to be bold about Jesus, not as a decorative sentiment but as a doctrinal conviction held publicly for 40 years in entertainment. After real loss and no career left to protect, she's the kind of witness that can't be dism...

Gavin Newsom told California donors JD Vance is 'scarier' than Trump because Vance holds disciplined convictions and a coherent governing theory. A man with a blueprint is harder to outmaneuver than a man who improvises.

A man put up $100,000 of his own money to find a missing woman because he didn't trust the official channels. That tells you everything.

Bishops confront diocese pressure as Catholic schools nationwide navigate competing demands from LGBTQ advocacy groups and conservative parents. Church leadership struggles with institutional doctrine versus enrollment.

Trump is pushing hard to curtail mail-in voting before the midterms. The media calls it voter suppression. The millions of Americans who watched 2020 unfold call it common sense.

When a folk singer becomes the progressive movement's choir director, the music stops being music and starts being a sermon nobody asked for.

Spring cleaning season is here, and Americans are hunting vacuum deals. Meanwhile, the federal government hasn't cleaned house in decades.

The same people who wanted chaplains replaced with counselors are scandalized that the Defense Secretary quotes Scripture. The outrage tells you everything.

The crowd that waved palms on Sunday called for crucifixion by Friday. The lesson for the church isn't about popularity, it's about faithfulness when the crowd turns.

Bernie Sanders is still packing rallies. The blue-haired faithful are still chanting. And not one of them has had to live under the system they keep demanding for everyone else.

Fewer women are traveling for abortions because more are getting pills in the mail. The medical system calls this innovation. People of faith see something else entirely.

Baptisms are up 22% nationally. Youth group attendance is surging in the South and Midwest. But the story doesn't fit the 'religion is dying' narrative, so you won't see it on the news.

Somewhere out there, Nancy Guthrie's family is still fighting for answers. When families refuse to quit, the least the rest of us can do is listen.

Senate Republicans are moving the SAVE America Act forward. For voters who've spent years asking whether their ballot counts as much as someone who shouldn't be voting at all, this is the answer.

America doesn't need another policy. It needs repentance. And that starts not in Washington, but in the pew.