Reflect on activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the state of civil discourse—calling for courage, faith, and a return to core values.

This post-election reflection urges readers to lead well despite political tensions: keep pursuing your mission, practice temperance, honor others, and contribute to society with prayerful intention.

This short historical fiction depicts Jean‑Pierre’s mission in colonial New France, burning enemy cabins for the crown and reflecting on family, survival, and the brutal realities of frontier war.

History is being played out in the war in Ukraine, it’s not a sideshow. The implications are very real, lives are being lost in dramatic despair, prices are rising, and the risk of greater escalation is an accident or bad decision away.

Otto paced in front of the hearth, pipe in mouth, Hamburg gazette underarm. His lips, held the end of the pipe tight, like a Rottweiler who’d found his favorite bone. A few rounds of fresh and fragrant tobacco had already been expended — room cloudy and full.